
Researcher Shares Tips for Improving Ridden Horses’ Welfare
Pay attention to signs of poor welfare and adapt your riding and training techniques to improve your horse’s well-being.


Pay attention to signs of poor welfare and adapt your riding and training techniques to improve your horse’s well-being.

The standing procedure involves temporarily inserting tubing from the horse’s tear duct into the sinus cavity.

Hot topics include digestion, metabolism, soft tissue injuries, and inflamm-aging.

Many nosebands were so tight that even the tip of the measuring gauge could not fit under at the frontal nasal plane.

Your horse’s best chance of overcoming this hoof disease might lie in your ability to catch it early.

Naive horses that watched an experienced horse perform a scary task were less fearful when it was their turn.

A new device determines horses’ heart rate changes due to stress and “subtracts” changes due to physical activity.

Scientists say molecular changes to an in-joint protein layer called lubricin could indicate osteoarthritis development.

Betulinic acid could become a safe and effective treatment for melanoma in horses, researchers said.

Researchers studied a group of related Exmoor ponies to find the chromosomes that could carry IBH-related genes.

Rein tension tended to be higher when a right-handed rider rode left-lateral horses compared to right-lateral ones.

While the deadly disease is endemic in Brazil, animal health authorities say the Rio Games’ equestrian facility is safe.

Researchers found that some mental warm-up to prepare your horse to learn can go a long way toward effective training.

Researchers found that training using learning theory principles can yield excellent results in weeks-old foals.

Researchers found that while many riders think they understand learning theory and its applications, few really do.

Saddle slip can negatively impact rider balance and equine locomotion, as well as rider biomechanics, researchers found.
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