Postcard: 2013 USEF Annual Meeting

…from supplements and medications to illegal drugs and interminable pre-competition longeing or riding. A rule change took freshness, such as a tail swish or a head toss, out of the…

15 Pointers for a Healthier Horse

…access to pasture, your part in his fitness is especially critical. “Riding, longeing, and hand grazing can all contribute to a horse’s mental and physical health,” Beaver says. “Change it…

Wild Horses in the Big House

…a number of activities, including grooming, desensitizing the horses to stimuli such as rain slickers or loud noises, longeing and other round-pen work, changing gaits, exposing them to cattle, learning…

Book Review: Trick Training for Horses

…necessary. You can also use a longeing cavesson with side rings, if you prefer. The Pli? The Pli? can help you develop the One- Legged Bow (see p. 103), but…

Ask Horse Journal June 2012

…but increasing exercise would help, even if it’s as simple as longeing him or even leading him around at the walk for a half hour a day (horses don’t exercise…

Rules of the Road

…working the horse or longeing it until it has settled down and can be ridden safely. With green and spooky horses, she recommends riding with a mature, experienced horse. Also,…

Your Horse Needs Fitness To Perform

…week (but that doesn’t mean just crawling around a ring for 20 minutes) will provide a training and conditioning benefit. With regular work that incorporates flatwork, longeing, jumping (if that’s…

Stall Space

…tack stall door hangs a bag that holds all polo wraps and bell boots used when longeing horses. 5. ?Honestly, our favorite thing is a large two-piece toolbox on wheels…