Horsing Around–Therapy That Is Fun

…Budden, founder and director of Happy Trails Riding Center in West Linn, Ore. ?Whether they have physical, cognitive, sensory or emotional disabilities, participants benefit from riding or working with horses….

Loading the Scared Horse

…to ask him to enter the trailer with you. Horses that have had bad experiences remember trailers as scary things. If your horse is scared of the trailer because of…

The Morgan Horse

…on the trail.Ride your trail horse prospect on the trail. Don’t be satisfied with circling around an arena – see how the horse reacts in the great outdoors. • Negotiate…

Used-Trailer Buying Checklist

Are you in the market for a used trailer? The best way to weed out the lemons is to focus on evaluating the trailers themselves using a methodical approach. Use…

Your Horse’s Trailer-Shopping List

…with a trailer that makes travel less stressful for him–and for you. Here’s how a trailer that incorporates the horse-friendly features listed at left will appear to its potential passenger…

A Buyer’s Guide To Trail Saddles

…used for trailriding as well as other work. “It’s more versatile; it can be used for trail or ranch work, and you can rope with it or use it for…

5 Gaited Crossbreeds

…it’ll be fun to raise gaited mules to pack into mountain camps and to pull our wagon.” Aadland’s first homebred gaited mules are due in 2008. On the trail: “Riding

The Privilege of Riding

information about the feedback she had received from her horse, and instead made a final decision with too little information. In reality, the relationship between this woman and her horse…

Balance Golf and Riding on Vacation

…the country’s finest riding programs. The Grand Cypress Equestrian Center offers instruction, indoors and out, in jumping, dressage, eventing and Western riding at all levels. A network of trails laces…