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Horsin’ Around Turkmenistan

While perusing the internet in search of a delicious slice of horse news to feed you fine people, I came across a tantalizing headline: "Horse Breeding and Human Rights in Turkmenistan". Click. If...

Meet the Woman Behind One of Horse Care’s Most Famous Innovations

[caption id="attachment_2980" align="alignleft" width="395"] Mary Ida Young (Courtesy of Absorbine®)[/caption] Whether the men of yore like to admit it or not, women have always played an important role in horse...

Just Another Deluded Cowboy

The kind and natural approach Several years ago, in search of an ethical alternative to the harsh and seemingly senseless mainstream training techniques, I began following a system of natural...

Off the Grid Polo…In Mongolia

Hundreds of miles of untouched, virgin land, speckled with a myriad of horses, goats, sheep, cattle, yak and little running ground squirrels lie before me. Falcons fly overhead, as scavenging...

Sh*t Hunter Trainers Say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJ2-VqwxAE In theory, riding hunters should be an easy proposition. The jumps are natural-looking and mostly inviting, the courses are straight-forward (line diagonal, line diagonal, maybe a single?), and if you’re...

12 Signs You Suffer From Post Working Student Disorder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk_tD_CYxBE Earlier this week, Kate Severson posted on “10 Things You Should Know Before Becoming a Working Student.” It’s full of mad #equestriantruths for aspiring working students. Now let’s fast forward 15...

10 Things You Should Know Before Becoming a Working Student

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTneVWzwvg I thought it might be helpful to give you all a little heads up of things you should know before going to be a working student. Keep in mind,...

10 Things Horses Hate

1. Humans making sudden, unnecessary movements—movements that could be perceived as aggression on the part of the human (like chasing them with a plastic bag tied to a whip). [caption...

Fly Season Faux Pas: How to Create a No-Fly Zone in Your Barn

Along with back-to-school jitters, warm hazy mornings, and some dynamite sweet corn, the Dog Days of summer are notorious for their late-season flies, which can be a nuisance to your horses,...

Video: “Sport of Kings” Will Capture a Side of Polo You Haven’t Seen

In many ways, the sport of polo is a world unto itself, even from other sports in the equestrian space. Long associated with privilege, glamour, and even princes, polo sometimes feels like the least accessible discipline...

5 Myths About Colic You May Still Believe

Colic has been recognized in horses for a long, long time, but it’s only fairly recently that have veterinarians have been able to accurately diagnose, and effectively treat, colic cases....

What You Need to Know About Polo, the ‘Gentleman’s Sport’

Picture this: you are on an expanse of green grass nine times the size of a football field. Beneath you an athletic thoroughbred stands poised, ready to leap into a...

So I Had My First Polo Lesson. Here are 12 Things I Learned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C9JsBlsVdw Earlier this week, I had my first polo lesson with Palo Alto Polo Holiday, a traveling Argentinean polo program run by the fantastic Leonardo Rossolini and Emily Hordijk, which is stationed near my hometown...