Pan Am Dominance

…any small oopsy or lameness issue for one horse will mean the entire team loses out.? I’d really like to see a return to the four-horse teams, as would most…

Baxter Black: The Horse Mumbler

…not to make a livin’. Then he did farriery for a little while but people couldn’t have their horses lame that long. Seems like he had a race horse till…

A Desert Ride

lame step. But on the final loop with just 7 kilometers to go, Sanora told me she was tired and I didn’t have the heart to push her. I urged…

Crucial Colic Cues

…horse will be very reluctant to move, obviously lame when he does move, and his hooves will be hot to the touch with elevated pulses in the arteries feeding the…

The Horse Lifestyle

…actually a veterinarian’ don’t blame you. it’s not really a lie, is it’ Do you sometimes work at night, when it’s dark and you can’t do anything in the barn,…

Ask Horse Journal: 05/03

…have a 15-year-old warmblood/Thoroughbred cross that is retired due to lameness. I never had any trouble with her digestive tract while she was in training and showing. But now she…

Wake-Up Call

…conversation that had occurred some months before. At the time of the first phone call, the horse was horribly lame and worsening. The reader’s desperation to ease his beloved mare’s…

Swollen Knees in Dressage Horses

…weeks after the injury. Some days are worse than others. She is never lame, and probing the swollen knee does not seem to bother her. Now she is back at…