Condition Your Horse Like a Pro
Nancy S. Loving, DVM
February 7, 2024
How to help performance horses of all types reach peak fitness.
How to help performance horses of all types reach peak fitness.
Restoring muscle glycogen, rehydrating, and ensuring a horse’s diet offers enough vitamin E all help with recovery after strenuous exercise.
Artificial intelligence technology might be able to assist veterinarians in making recommendations to riders about their horse’s performance.
The cross-country phase of eventing comes with risk, but new research aims to keep horses and riders safer.
How do you build a nutritional program that supports your high-intensity equine athlete? Three experts share their advice.
Here’s what to know about horse inspections, which are designed to evaluate the horse’s fitness to compete.
They found that at the elite level, horses and riders are more likely to have faults at combinations, water verticals, and fences later on course.
Experience might compensate for age at the advanced level, and other findings from a U.K. study of 75,000 horses.
Although horse sports—and three-day eventing in particular—carry inherent risks to both horse and rider, significant safety efforts in recent years have led to safer competitions, according to two sports medicine specialists.
Mandatory headgear, banned bitless bridles, imposed endurance rider weights, and frangible device requirements for eventing jumps are among new FEI rules.
Discover useful information about an eventing horse’s fitness and ability by looking at these three measurements.
Stallions and geldings outperformed mares in one-day and three-day events across several levels in the U.K. However, differences were “slight” and performance was equal across sexes at one level.
U.S. Olympic show jumper Kent Farrington discusses horsemanship, training, recognizing each horse’s individuality, his “ponies,” and more.
Catch a ride with U.S. Team eventer Boyd Martin and find out what it takes to prepare high-performance horses for competition.
Take an inside look at the rules and regulations regarding importing horses to the United States solely for competition.
There’s been very little scientific study into sudden death in sport horses, but researchers recently reviewed a number of incidents with the ultimate goal of reducing the number of fatalities that occur.
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