An equine sports medicine specialist shares how footing can impact soundness and offers footing selection advice.
The steps you take to care for your horse both immediately after a competition and once you’re back home are important to his athletic longevity.
How to help performance horses of all types reach peak fitness.
The first and second place finishers in the 2022 Tevis Cup describe their feed strategies.
Gabriela Blakeley and her 13-year-old Arabian gelding won the Western States Trail Ride’s 66th edition.
Feeding hard-working endurance horses is as much art as it is science. Our sources walk you through an endurance horse’s diet, from conditioning to post-race.
Excessive heat and smoke from wildfires challenged participants in the 2021 ride.
Horses and riders return to the trail after the COVID-19 pandemic caused organizers to cancel the 2020 running of what’s billed as the world’s toughest endurance race.
The COVID-19 pandemic stalled many 2020 equine events, include the 100-mile Tevis Cup endurance ride. However, riders around the world supported the Tevis trail foundation and created a new tradition by completing the inaugural Virtual Tevis.
The rider of an Arabian horse whose leg broke during an endurance race in France has been relieved of a 20-year sanction for doping and horse abuse, following the decision of an international appeals court.
A French study is the first to connect the gut microbiota with the mitochondria in horses, or any other species.
City of Rocks in south central Idaho became one of the first three rides allowed to proceed with American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC)-approved safety regulations.
Mandatory headgear, banned bitless bridles, imposed endurance rider weights, and frangible device requirements for eventing jumps are among new FEI rules.
The 17-year-old gelding finished ninth in the 100-mile Tevis Cup. This was his fifth consecutive Tevis, and he’s never finished out of the Top 10.
The 18-year-old, riding an Arabian gelding found for free in a Craigslist ad, edged out three-time winner Jeremy Reynolds in a race to the finish.
Only about 50% of horses complete the 100-mile endurance race; the rest must be brought safely back to civilization.
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