Category Archives: Video

In honor of Queen Elizabeth II's 90th Birthday today (still need to buy her a gift? here you go!), we're sharing a charming little diddy from way back in 1992, when...

We all remember Steve Irwin, and to be honest, this writer always had a little thing for him. What wasn't to love? Brave, loud, theatrically crazy and kinda adorable. Could there be anything better...

This "perfectly trained" horse won't buck you off while you post around with free weights, stretch from side to side, or work on your piaffe while equitating. But, like any...

Fangirling over your favorite rider is standard fare on social media. We know because a) we do it, a lot and b) we post your gushing tweets on the regular. While confessing your heart's...

Contrary to popular belief, Triple Crown winners do not grow on trees. While it's true great horses can come from just about anywhere, in the thoroughbred industry there are but...

The capybara looks down a the mini horse sleeping nearby, and says, "Hey! Where'd you get those kittens?" And the mini horse says, "What kittens?" Just kidding. It wasn't a...

The name Barbaro will forever conjure a sharp sense of tragedy. The image of the champion colt pulled up just a few strides from the starting gate in the Preakness...

Here are two things that may surprise you. The first is that you're about to watch an owl ride around on a mechanical toy horse accompanied by what might be...

It's one thing to earn the status of prohibitive Kentucky Derby out on the track, as Nyquist has dutifully done in his brief but brilliant career. This is a fast,...

A photographer who came to visit him in his faraway town on the volcanic island of Java, Indonesia, nicknamed Ridwan Sururi the "Don Quixote of literacy". But even if Sururi is...

What is the origin of horsepower? Does it begin with a push of the hooves? Is it ignited in the hindquarters? Could it be the crest of the neck shooting...

If there's one thing you'll probably take away from this video of trainer Jason Hiser and his horse, Delgado, it's the obvious sense of trust between the two. It's the kind of...

“What you’re facing is nothing less than a reality check for the sport,” said FEI's Olympic Press Committee member Alan Abrahamson at the FEI Sports Forum on Tuesday. “A lot of...

Like any good vacation, it must have felt like it took California Chrome forever to get there. Although, in his case, it kind of did. After smoking the rest of the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmWNvBeLRqg One of the most fun (and terrifying) things about working with green horses is that you never really know what you're gonna get. The windy day you fully expect...

I once asked a jockey, many years ago, what it was like to ride racehorses for a living. "Imagine straddling a balance beam on top of a freight train," he...

Well, we're going to tell you. Did you assume that because we turn out scores upon scores of in-depth, horse-related news, health, humor, and training stories a week that we must feel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb0x_XBO7RU Rosco the foal was not having a very good week. On the day he was born, a new stallion took over his band, part of the Salt River Wild Horses...

We're going to be completely honest with you. We had plenty of fodder for our first, Struggles Only Short Riders Understand video. Boatloads of struggles. A Shire full of hobbits...

There are few moments more frightening for a rider than a horse who stumbles suddenly in the course of normal business and threatens to go down. The fact that horses...