Category Archives: Sponsored

To wash or not to wash? When it comes to dirty saddle pads, that’s pretty much always the question. Sure, the issue seems simple on its face. But there’s a lot more...

Racehorses wear them. Eventers too. More and more they’re showing up in the jumper ring. FLAIR® Equine Nasal Strips, those BandAid-looking contraptions above a horse’s nostrils, are becoming a go-to...

The VIP™ Half Pad is not a gel pad. You may have mistaken it for one, because it looks like a gel pad. But one squeeze will immediately dispel any...

Swiss Olympic champion Steve Guerdat reflects on the horses that most influenced his life, his career, and his perspective for Horseware Ireland’s “Through it all” campaign. People often ask is...

During the same month Eddie “Shorty” Sweat lay dying of multiple ailments, including cancer and heart disease, Western Horseman magazine released its December 1997 issue with an article commemorating the...

“Merry Christmas” cards came in a rush to Georgia Equine Veterinary Services and Hospital in Canton, Georgia. It was not the recent holiday season, but July of last year in...

“Her heaving bosom rose and fell in time with the pounding of her horse’s hooves.” That’s a great sentence to read in a romance novel. It’s not so great at...

Canadian horsemen Tim Worden, PhD, and Sean Jobin are out-of-the-box thinkers. Their evidence-based approaches to equine athlete selection, development, performance and management are gaining notice and credibility. Their work and...

The dawn mist rises slowly off the hay fields as light breaks gently across the Upstate New York horizon. It’s an ideal scene, until the stillness is broken by the...

Emily Morin’s first memories with horses were as a five-year-old. Growing up in Indiana, her mother, Marianne Ash, introduced her to the sport, and both competed, sharing an interest in...

Between the 150 seminars and clinics, enormous trade fair and phenomenal entertainment, EQUITANA USA is a wealth of education and shopping options. But I'm pleased to say my game plan...

The EQUITANA USA planning extravaganza continues! Between the enormous trade fair at Kentucky Horse Park, the show stopping entertainment, and 150 seminars and clinics all across three days, October 1-3,...

I'm a planner. And if there's an event that requires a little coordinated planning, it's EQUITANA USA. With an enormous trade fair at the equally enormous Kentucky Horse Park, spectacular...

When Babbie Styslinger arrives at her 56-acre farm in the town of Leeds, near Birmingham, Alabama, her presence rarely goes unnoticed. Sure, Babbie’s training partner Brandy Jewell Dempsey generally has...

Dear Horse Sport, What a ride we’ve had. When I think back to my many years with you, both in and out of the saddle, I feel such a sense...

There are certain moments in sport that can never be replicated. One of them was Scott Brash’s last four jumps on his way to becoming the first and still only...

A soft light filters down from the vaulted atrium, illuminating the historic chambers below. The camera pans back from the clocktower, then inside, across the terrazzo floors, and onto a...

What are you doing this fall? If you’re anything like us, you’re more than ready to get out of the house, onto the road, and to lose yourself among like-minded...

Once upon a time, on the left bank of Northern Italy’s Po River, Alessandro Albanese (AA) was just a small, village tailor’s shop run by a local family. For decades,...

If you’ve spent any time among non-horse-people, in any casual setting—a post-work cocktail party, say—you’ve definitely heard the stories. “Really? You ride? I rode once. My horse took off on...