Married with Horses: Horses, Horses Everywhere

Continued from Married with Horses: The Waiting Game “She’s doing well,” said Mandy’s doctor. “The condition of her eye hasn’t changed much, but she’s been eating and going to the…

Married with Horses: The Waiting Game

Continued from Married with Horses: Horse Happens I’m a night owl, but at 1 a.m. I was exhausted. I had gotten my fill of excitement for the day. Mandy, however,…

Married with Horses: Horse Happens

…her job and we started our own equestrian marketing agency. We quickly had three big clients for whom we were doing catalogs, print ads, websites and photography. It was the…

Equitrekking

Darley Newman’s Equitrekking, Travel Adventures by Horseback, is the newest guide to riding vacations. The book is an in-depth companion to the public-television series of the same name. Illustrated with…

Know Your Horse, Know Your Self

When I interviewed Yvonne Barteau, international dressage competitor, trainer, and author of Ride the Right Horse: Understanding the Core Equine Personalities and How to Work with Them, I was going…

Married with Horses: The Growing Season

| © Andy Myer The hot, humid North Carolina summer was helping everything grow. The apple and pear trees were growing heavy with maturing fruit. Growing on the fig trees…

Horse Racing: Face the Truth

August 15, 2008 In a disturbing snapshot taken immediately after last spring’s Kentucky Derby, Eight Belles, the second-place filly, struggles to her feet while the men around her desperately try…

Married with Horses: All We Need is a Mare-acle

Kimberly and I spent nearly two weeks worth of evenings and weekends “interviewing” potential broodmares. “Do you, or have you ever smoked cigarettes,” I’d ask the mare. “She’s not amused…

Married with Horses: Our Garden of Eden

| © Andy Myer “You have to kill it!” Kimberly shouted. “Okay,” I said, “But, could you get a little farther back from that thing, please?” I ran to the…