A Buddy System Shape-up Program
…circles, abdominal twists, and other standing movements. Make sure you’ve done your sacking out training, so you don’t startle your horse and send him racing home. He should stand quietly….
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One Last Gift from The Little Horse
…all I could manage. Knowing I wanted a little time alone with him, Beth gave me a hug and left us. I set about currying and brushing and combing, tracing…
How Much Grain Does Your Horse Need?
…ridden almost daily in a structured training program with athletic goals. This group includes reining horses, jumpers and horses being conditioned for racing: No more than 40% concentrates. Elite Athletes:…
Longines – A New Sponsor at the Hampton Classic
…words that also describe Longines’ product. Longines, which has had involvement with horse sports since 1878 and show jumping since 1926, sponsors racing in the U.S. and abroad, show jumping…
Media Critique: The Barefoot Horse
…your horse has a quarter crack (usually requires shoes to stabilize the hoof) or if you participate in a discipline where shoes are necessary to be competitive, like racing. Bottom…
Three Exercises To Prepare For Cross-Country Jumping
…themselves when they?re jumping?a very important skill to have, especially on a cross-country course. Thanks to my long experience of foxhunting and steeplechase racing, I’ve always believed that horses shouldn?t…
A Horse of a Different Color
…know”, I’d add how to work gates. ?There aren’t any in Tevis, so it’s irrelevant there, but where we live and do quite a bit of conditioning and racing, cattle…
Riding the Estero
…ours and bracing for a circus event among our three high-strung, really-enjoying-themselves Arabians.? Fortunately the horses never saw her and she was downwind of us – which is probably why…
Virginia Hunt Country Stable Tour May 25-26, 2013
…jockey silks). Owners Bertram and Diana Firestone have won seven Eclipse Awards in the 30 years they have been breeding and racing Thoroughbreds. Civil War cavalry reenactors spiced up our…
Here it Comes Again
…one of Arabian horse racing’s most accomplished stallions. Stella – whose full name is M Dash Stellar – has already finished Tevis twice and, at nine years old, has started…