Category Archives: Books and Film

This excerpt from Anne Kursinski’s book, Riding & Jumping Clinic, takes the rider through an exercise that helps leverage a key component of a good distance: rhythm. Refining Your Sense...

She left her family and all she knew behind, got on her horse, and rode west. Sounds like a song about some long-ago adventure, doesn’t it? It was only 40...

Long gone are the days when we could consider our horse’s fitness the only point of concern when it comes to our athletic endeavors together. Sure, he has to collect...

I remember the first time I read the statistic: I was more likely to get seriously injured riding my horse than I was riding my motorcycle. At first I rejoiced,...

The question of “social license”—acceptance or approval granted to a particular group from the community at large—is all over the equestrian sphere at the moment. When our sports involve another...

How many of us have had the image of the Training Pyramid ground into memory? Whatever our sport, if we are any good at it and wish our horses to...

We’ve all been there—on the horse who pokes his way around the warm-up ring, needs leg, leg, leg coming into the combination, or brings up the rear on every trail...

Riders of any discipline aren't known for having much free time outside of the barn. If you're as avid a reader as you are a rider, then those empty slots...

I flash back on occasion to the early years of my horse-trailering experience—begging rides from acquaintances, loading my 4-H project pony into whatever rig might be passing by our driveway...

“What if every single human being chose one threatened animal or insect or bird or fish and decided to save it? I think the world would look completely different if...

Adventurer Jesse McNeil knows a thing or two about long-distance adventures. He's hiked the nearly 2,200 miles of the Appalachian Trail between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in...

We riders often have laundry lists of the qualities we value in horses. These can be general, like most competitors wanting athletes in their barns, and they can be specific,...

Who doesn’t want the best of top international training and instruction in their home ring? We all can just imagine what a little access to the tips and tricks that...

When you’ve been riding horses for as long as you can remember, there comes a day when you wake up and say to yourself (or your horse), “What’s next?” Sometimes...

We all remember our early interactions with horses or our first riding lessons, but have we ever wondered what our parents were thinking? In his memoir A Man Walks Into...

Happy #Buyahorsebookday! Today, Trafalgar Square Books is hosting a day dedicated to horses on the page, and we are launching our first literary roundup to celebrate. After hosting the HN Reads...

The renowned wildlife program Nature on PBS has produced several equine-centric episodes that span the planet. Julia Roberts rode with nomadic horse masters in "Wild Horses of Mongolia." In "Legendary...

Anyone who has ridden in the hunters has wondered at one time or another why one horse pinned higher or what mistake might have kept them out of the ribbons...

Who hasn’t had a horse who’s always “in your pocket”? The one who pushes and rubs and walks super close? We tend to either love on this horse because his...

Thelwell drawings transport me back to the age of five when my love of horses first took hold. Those unmistakable illustrations of fat little ponies remind me of going to...