Category Archives: #HorseWordNerd

Horses have been a part of the Olympics from close to the start. There is no way our four-legged friends, who helped shape humanity on multiple levels, could be left...

Sometimes forced dismounts are met with laughter and other times tears and ambulances. I think it’s fair to say that 99.9% of the time we’re jettisoned from the saddle it’s...

This week I was plum out of ideas, so I thought I’d go out on a limb and try a chatbot AI program to see if it could offer any...

A friend of mine texted me the other day, “Why are they called field boots, dress boots and paddock boots?” Fair question. Why are they called field boots? And so,...

Today I thought I’d venture down the horse’s leg as there are a lot of curious names down there. We will start at the bottom and work our way up...

It astounds me how little I know about the horse world. I have been involved with horses my whole life, though almost entirely on the English side of things and...

Ahhhh, words. I love them and since I love them so much, I’m going to explore a few that we use in our day-to-day and some that we don’t. I’ll...

What makes a chestnut horse a chestnut? I have written about roans, palominos, bays and Appaloosas and today I thought I’d add to the collection and talk about chestnuts. Chestnuts...

This week's theme is horses and numbers. What got me onto the topic in the first place was the word martingale. Confused? You're not alone. My original goal was to...

There are many things in this world with the word horse attached to them. Most we understand such as a sawhorse or horseradish, which I've written about. But then we...

This is the second installment of "UK versus North America," which I’ve just deemed a mini-series. Last time, I started the post discussing whether you keep your horse at livery...

I’ve been avoiding the phrases "horse sense," "horse play" and "horse around" for a long time for a number of reasons. Mostly because they aren’t in common use anymore and,...

When I was in university I took a biological anthropology class, and while in that stuffy classroom learning about monkeys and prehensile tails, I also learned something interesting about horse...

I’ve always regarded the UK as the birthplace of horse sports. I’m sure that is entirely correct, but it’s how I feel. I love British TV and all things horsey...

I saw a TikTok video today of a woman talking about how hard she pronounced the ‘L’ in "caulk" to the man working in the hardware store. I know exactly...

When I was seven my parents almost bought me a pony named Captain Crunch. I loved him, not only because I was a kid and because I loved the cereal...