“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be...” – Robert Browning The stables where I work had three senior dogs, all showing various signs of aging just like many of us stablehands. It seems like all of us here have either a limp or a slightly s...
Steffen Peters, the German-born rider who competes for the U.S. equestrian team, had another big performance this week. The German rider has just won the CDI4 Grand Prix in Leudelange, Luxembourg. Riding his 10-year-old KWPN gelding Suppenkasper (S...
“Let your horse hear you exhale. Feel his ribs move as he inhales. The conversation has begun.” – Anna Blake, Author and Equestrian Your horse's world consists of mostly non-verbal communication, so horse trainer Dr. Allan J. Hamilton’s book “Lead W...
What Exactly Is Geocaching? Horses are our friends, companions, and yes, our geocaching partners. But just what is geocaching? It’s a hobby that involves participants using GPS tracking systems to seek and find “caches,” oftentimes plastic or metal...
Ahhh, so you want to know about the pleasures of maneuvering a bumper pull horse trailer? Bumper pull trailers have many virtues. They are compact, store easily and do a lot with less space. They also are a very versatile hauling device. But maneuvering...
Our chosen lifestyle, which involves our equine partners, is expensive. Feed prices go up, facility costs are on the rise, fuel cost keep creeping up, and the list goes on and on. So how do we continue to grow in our knowledge, skill, and experience ...
In horses, clickers can help train performance skill in-hand and under saddle, as well as develop polite ground manners and self-control. At first, the clicker sound often has no meaning but gains value when it’s reliably paired with a primary reinf...
British riders have dominated the recent equestrian event, the Al Shira’aa Hickstead Derby. British showjumpers William Funnell and Holly Smith led the British equestrian team, claiming big wins for their home country. But the event’s biggest story went...
My introduction to minis came through clients of my herbal supplement business. Though I had been around and trained (and rehabbed) a few ponies, I had yet to personally get my hands on a mini (other than those that belonged to clients). Fortunately,...
Let me introduce myself (and this is the short version) – I'm a 60-something female rider and although I've been riding since childhood, I didn't return to horse ownership until 2006. It was at that time when I acquired my beautiful, smart and quirky...
Do you know why veterinarians recommend feeding your horse with hay pellets instead of long-stem grass hay? As horses age, they begin to encounter difficulties in handling long-stem hay; this may (or may not) be connected to dental problems. Long-stem...
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