The pocket-searching peppermint fanatic has landed. That’s what I let my friends know when my new horse, an off-track Thoroughbred named It Happened Again, arrived
There’s a meme making its way around social mediaÑgalloping, if you willÑthat features a blackboard-looking image that says, basically, “Today’s Lesson: Life is Short É Buy the
Select riders, trainers, and other professionals toured the Purina Animal Nutrition Center, watched research demonstrations, and learned about equine nutrition in lectures in the company’s semi-annual Professional Horse VIP Meeting, held Sept 15-17.
One of my more exciting memories from riding camp as a kid involved a trail ride on my 20-year-old grade pony, Pacer. I was one
This spring I began teaching intermediate-level lessons to a rider who pilots an enormous dark bay draft horse. When I met this gelding, his rider
Last week I was out at a local barn and a towering draft cross gelding opened his mouth, releasing an equally imposing waterfall of lukewarm slobber into
A few weeks ago I was having a difficult time trying to find vet schools to follow on Instagram from @TheHorseMag ‘s account. And as
Chrome. It’s something we hear frequently mentioned in horse circles but not so much elsewhereÑunless we’re talking about the Google Web browser, motorcycles, or maybe
There’s something a bit mystical about vaccination. We inject an antigenic material from a tiny plastic cylinder into our horses’ necks and it triggers reactions
At the Rolex Ride The Course event international four-star eventer Lynn Symansky describes the complementary therapies her horses’ health care team uses in the time leading up to three-day events, from acupuncture to magnetic blankets.
Central Kentucky is already a glorious mecca for horse people, but it becomes even more so the final week of April and first week of May.
At the Rolex Ride the Course press event International four-star eventer Lynn Symansky describes how she handles shadows and other tricky things horses see during cross-country.
Last Thursday night, something big happened for TheHorse.com. We watched our Facebook fan count climb to 100,000! Let’s put that amount into perspective. It’s just
I’m posting my column for April a little early because, while the project I describe here is ongoing, the researcher has set a milestone deadline for today. What do
A few months ago I climbed aboard a crowded plane in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at 10 at night. Four flights, two continents, and about 26
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