Three-day eventer Elisa Wallace, of Jasper, GA, redefines the term “barn dance” in her latest video blog. Watch her cut a rug while desensitizing the spooky young Mustang, Sparks, to Elle King’s pop hit “Exes and Ohs.”...
[caption id="attachment_1733" align="alignleft" width="229"] Dr. Hilary Clayton[/caption] The following is a summary of Dr. Hilary Clayton’s clinic on equine biomechanics at the University of New Hampshire Equine Program on October...
If your breakfast, like our breakfast, consisted of cutout cookies and a white chocolate mocha, it's easy to feel like your diet day is already shot. (Oh that was just us? Okay then.)...
Life comes at you fast, but it can it all be taken away just as swiftly. It’s a lesson one young equestrian will never forget. What began as just another...
A lot of things can go wrong when your horse slips the bridle mid course. You could fall off, as most often is the case. You could keep jumping, like Belgium show...
Most longstanding luxury saddle makers use time to their advantage. Established 20 or 30 or even 50 years ago, they stake their reputations on their legacy. Voltaire does just the opposite. In just five...
I recently read a quote by George Morris that resonated with me a lot. Now, I’m not a “GM groupie”. I respect his accomplishments as a horseman and I think...
In far-East Siberia, the winter landscape is as beautiful as it is fatal; an unbroken sheet of white stretching out as far as the eye can see, desolate and frozen. This...
A new invention may mean that horse people around the country will be sleeping a little better next year, taking the sting out of those 12 or so hours between evening and morning feeds when...
Unless you happen to be flying south for the season, the first snows of winter are just around the corner in many places, and the time to make sure you’re prepared...
We all know that adding more shavings to a stall often just feels like, well, more:more to clean, more to pay for, and more to lug in and out of the barn....
Four years ago when I took a chance on a “rescue” prospect, I wasn’t really sure what I was getting myself into. It turned out that this horse was labelled...
Anxious, wide-eyed parents ask me how to keep their kids interested in horses. All. The. Time. “You know…like you are, after all these years…” More often than not, this question...
These days, California-based hunter rider Hope Glynn of Sonoma Valley Stables in Petaluma has a full plate. With 40 clients, 53 horses and ponies in training, and a busy on-the-road schedule...
Jillian Scott’s horse artwork is really quite extraordinary, but she doesn’t require any brushes or paints. Nor does she take photographs, or sculpt life-sized horses out of copper or steel. In...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEh0S1ZZ8KE There are many things that adult amateur riders spend time worrying about. We worry about getting a good distance. We worry about staying on course. We worry about limiting the number of times our...
Rafael Pease just wanted to catch some fresh powder on his 21st birthday. But the snowboarder got more than he bargained for when he discovered a stranded horse, trapped in four feet...
