Before I ever heard about learned helplessness applied to anything, there was a real sense of the meaning. Learned helplessness could be seen in the eyes of any living being...
In a lifetime around horses, many were treasured family and teachers of an uncommon kind. Usually the best of them had something that made them "undesirable" and a hard sell...
Phillip Dutton has spent more time on the backs of thoroughbreds than many jockeys. The Australamerican has piloted such ex-racehorses as TruLuck and The Foreman around numerous 4* events, and is currently...
It took many years before there was an ability to tell this individual's story. Even now, there's a tightness around my heart just thinking about him. There was nothing ordinary about...
I made one of the hardest decisions of my life last week. My own personal "Sophie’s Choice"—choosing between two beings that I considered sons—with no real perfect answer. I sold...
The sport horse world is currently caught up in widespread Jung Fever, and for good reason. The World's top-ranked rider and his mare FischerRocana put forth a picture perfect weekend in anything...
It was the summer of 2015 and Boyd Martin needed a new horse. With the Rio Olympics on the horizon and the retirement of four-star veterans Otis Barbotiere and Trading...
Last spring, Leah Lang-Gluscic made headlines alongside her 10-year-old thoroughbred, AP Prime, during the pair's debut at the 2015 Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. It was the Cinderella story of the...
The paint is dry, the grass is mowed, the mood in turnt and the entry list is live for the 2016 Rolex Kentucky 3-Day Event. Phillip Dutton and Fernhill Fugitive...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmWNvBeLRqg One of the most fun (and terrifying) things about working with green horses is that you never really know what you're gonna get. The windy day you fully expect...
Yesterday was the first show of the season for many of us here in Kentucky, the Paul Frazer Memorial Combined Test at the Kentucky Horse Park. The show has become...
Nervous horses are hard to ride horses. Hard to ride in that they are too reactive. They may not stand quietly to be mounted. They may not walk calmly. They...
Snow-capped mountains surround the vast, frozen valley floor as opportunistic sunlight bleeds through cracks in the clouds that blanket the big sky. The controlled cadence of clopping hooves and the patter...
When it comes to equestrian sport, few horses can bring it like the thoroughbred. Their heart, courage, power and athleticism make them an ideal fit for just about any discipline,...
To the untrained eye, lunging looks like an exercise of chasing the horse around in seemingly never-ending circles. I’ve often heard questions posed by new equestrians, horse husbands and non-horsey...
A few months ago, dripping in sweat and battered and bruised, I came home and text messaged my best friend Meghan, telling her that I thought it was time to...
I walked off of the cross country course in tears yesterday. Sweat poured off of my face, and the tears caught into the black mane and glistening neck of my...
It was late April, 2013, and eventer Allie Knowles was still trying to adapt to the frozen winters and volatile springs of her New Kentucky Home. Just over a year before...
Prov•i•dence: (noun)1. (often initial capital letter) the foreseeing care and guidance of God or nature over the creatures of the earth.2. (initial capital letter) God, especially when conceived as omnisciently...
