
Love
For the Love of Mares
In my younger (ok, MUCH younger) days, I didn’t like mares. They seemed unpredictable and difficult compared to geldings, or even stallions. I was wrong.…
In my younger (ok, MUCH younger) days, I didn’t like mares. They seemed unpredictable and difficult compared to geldings, or even stallions. I was wrong.…
You’ve followed their love story on Instagram. A high rolling rider and a highly paid actress. Their shared equestrian ambitions bringing two disparate worlds together, one…
A year ago today, I loaded the love of my life onto a trailer bound for his new home. He was off to the hunter…
When I started my blog in March of 2016, it was nearly a year that the ending began. But to tell the story from the end…
In the past few years, a previously unsavory sounding term has become a hip way of describing someone with admirable, credible traits that the rest…
The life of a racehorse can be quite the grind. Daily workouts, followed by hot walks and cold baths before getting the rest of the…
Horse people know we aren’t exactly rational when it comes to our animals. Actually, we may not know, but if we do, we definitely don’t…
There are plenty of drawbacks to being 70 years older than the OTTBs I ride—lack of former agility, lack of all courage, lack of being…
In homage to maternal wisdom this Mother’s Day, we asked top riders across North America: “What’s the best advice your mom ever gave you?”
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…
Are future cutting horse foals any cuter than other kinds of foals? Probably not, but it’s hard not to think so when watching this crop…
Leave it to little ol’ Luxembourg to completely blow our minds with, of all things, a bottled water advertisement. For real. See for yourself: The…
Each day is a new adventure when you’re a foal, but sometimes those adventures require a little help. Thankfully, if you’ve got a good mom, she can…
What do horses dream about? If we had to guess, it would probably be racing around with their friends, galloping in green fields, and crunching on peppermints—but what…
It’s just over 30 seconds long, but a video captured by Sue Robinson of Leicester, UK this week demonstrates just about everything you’d ever need to…
Shammy, the dwarf Miniature Horse, is the lap dog of tiny horses. And he’s not ashamed to admit it. At the barn, in the grass, on…
Born in Gronau, Germany to Turkish parents, Yalvac grew up obsessed with photography and horses. “When I was a kid, I could stand for hours in front…
This adorable, cookies-n-cream coated cutie is just a couple weeks old. Her name is Lady Nadira, a bay leopard halfinger/gypsy cross. Not exactly something you…
Kids may say the darndest things, but baby animals have the market cornered on adorable foibles. Sneezing, especially for the first time, doesn’t come with…
Did he or didn’t he? That’s the question setting tabloids abuzz nationwide this week after singer Gwen Stefani, like Channing Tatum before her, took to…