Postcard: Dressage at Devon 2004
…stand out. It’s as if he disdains the ground beneath his hooves, because he’s so far above it. Leslie, who won the individual gold medal at the Pan American Games…
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Severson Third After Olympic Cross-Country
…Galan’s hind hooves hit the ground. He waved both hands in the air on his gallop past the finish line, and a horde of French men and women (several wrapped…
Travel Greece’s Ionian Sea Trail on Horseback
…stuff of epic poems. It was the unmistakable rhythm of a horse’s hooves hitting dirt, of chocolate chip cookies at picnics, the Parthenon jailed under scaffolding, and columns and castles….
Starting Young Horses at StartSmart Academy
…of conformation items; detailed analysis of limbs–joints, tendons, hooves. Then we recorded observations of movement (walk/trot) in-hand. Temperament was also scored by the veterinarian, trainer and barn manager. All of…
In The News: 06/04
…and more irregular than calcifications in other lateral cartilages of the same horse. Ossification of the collateral cartilages is most likely to occur in hooves that are narrow or contracted….
Horse Trekking Across Wales
…of hooves. “No!” I lied and closed my legs tighter around Merlin. Our friends Elizabeth, Ben and Jan lagged behind with our trekking guide Myfanwy, pronounced Ma-fawn-we. At the bottom…
Collegiate Showing Reaps Great Rewards
…people strip off their tack and polos, pack their hooves and poultice their legs. I see scores of other riders watering, haying and generally cleaning up the wreck we have…
Emergency: Acute Laminitis Attack
…feet and hooves of sufficient oxygen and nutrients. Cell damage results. When the blood flow returns, the damaged tissues trigger an inflammatory reaction that again reduces blood flow to the…
Ask Horse Journal: 03/04
…while searching some catalogs for a hoof supplement for our five-year-old Belgian gelding. We keep all of our horses barefoot and have had no problems, except with him. His hooves…
Create a Safe Foaling Stall
…that might look innocent but could catch tiny hooves-gaps between the stall floor and the bottom of the wall or between upright wall studs and their diagonal braces, spaces between…