For Want of a 12-Foot Stride

Since starting Hannah under saddle three years ago, I’ve been willing her to either shrink or grow. A few inches shorter and she’d be a

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Sometimes You Simply Don’t Know

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

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Massages for Senior Horses

As you might know by now, 18-year-old Dorado is just a tad accident proneÑif there’s a way to hurt himself, pull a shoe off, or

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Slobbering in Horses

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

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The Passing of a Legend

The Passing of a Legend MT. PLEASANT, TX – Goliath, the 2005 Guinness Book of World Record holder for Tallest Living Horse, passed away peacefully 

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