Anne Kenan’s Easy Steps to Improve Your Horse’s Topline
…I picked up reading Charles de Kunffy’s The Ethics and Passions of Dressage. After the few strides of a bigger, longer walk, bring your horse back to a regular walk….
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Connecting With Your Horse in the Round Pen
…it’s safe to do so, walk up and pet him, and then turn and walk away. He might follow you or he might just stand there. Either way is fine….
Safe & Successful Comebacks
…the healing process.” Start with hand-walking, particularly if the horse has been on stall rest. “Your veterinarian will probably give you the go-ahead to start hand-walking the horse well before…
Serpentine to Success
…forward at the walk. When he is walking freely (when you don’t have to urge him to keep going), you’re ready to make your first loop. Allow your right rein…
Hand-Walking Tips for Horses on Stall Rest
…A horse walking directly behind you is more likely to run you over if he bolts or spooks. Teach the horse to walk at your speed with you leading him,…
Ask Horse Journal: Yokes, Salt, Walking under Tack, NCS
…walk rather than hand walk.? If I’m just going to walk, why would I need to do this’ it’s a lot of extra time to groom and tack up, but…
Glossary of Equine Terms
…walk, trot, canter, and gallop. So-called “gaited horses” have specialty gaits, such as the running walk and the pace. gaited horse — one possessing a gait beyond the natural walk, trot,…
Nicoll is 2010 FEI Games Driving Course Designer
…Internationale (FEI) in the early 1980s. Nicoll has designed numerous courses, including three world championship courses, in several countries including England, Canada, Austria, Argentina, Australia, Ireland, Sweden and the United…
Racing History Highlights – August 14-27
Aug. 14, 1942: One of racing’s oddities occurred at Saratoga Racecourse when Rurales and Joe Burger finished in a dead-heat for first place, giving trainer W.O. Hicks, who saddled both…
HITS Culpeper Finals Competition Round-Up
…of 22 hopefuls, over a course designed by Manual Esparza, of Mexico City, Mexico, Douglas left the Old Dominion State with a blue ribbon and a $4,350 check in hand….