Horse-Show Biosecurity: Is Your Horse at Risk?

…water buckets, label them with each horse’s name and don’t use them for any other horse to avoid cross-contamination. Also, don’t fill buckets or allow a horse to drink from…

Fight Arthritis at Every Age

…performance horse industry is people who have paid high-dollar fees to enter horses in 3-year-old futurities, so they must train them hard,” says Dabareiner. “They’ll have maybe 60 days under…

How to Use Self-Carriage to Improve Your Horse

…of the horse is not sufficient. It is impossible to make general statements regarding how far or low a horse should be able to stretch because all horses differ in…

Breaking the Strangles Cycle

horses. Stress, such as long transports, heavy exercise, change in location, introduction to new horses, and other factors, can temporarily weaken a horse’s immune response, making it especially important to…

Learning to Train Young Horses

…of riding (training young horses or training Grand Prix horses),” Möller explains. “The professional young horse riders then give these horses to the next group of riders, who move the…

Trail Riding Regions: Where to Ride Guide

…Trail-Riding Destinations Lazy Horse Ranch, Pearce, (520) 221-0722; anne@lazyhorseranch.com Riding Vacations Arizona Horseback Experience, Tucson; (520) 455-5696; www.horsebackexperience.com Casa de Caballo; Hereford; (520) 803-6692 Hilltop Hideaway Riding Paradise, Chiricahua Mountains;…

Horse & Rider Magazine 2009 Articles Index

…19 “A Wider Show Gate,” (Palomino Horse Breeders Association), YHYL, Sept., pg. 18 “Ride a Better Horse,” (American Stock Horse Association), YHYL, Oct., pg. 20 “The Magic of Morgans,” (Grand…

The Slaughter Debate: A Two-Sided Issue

…for a slaughter ban is having many unintended consequences: horses turned loose; horses shot; underground collectors by passing horse auctions and crossing borders to slaughter plants; haulers transporting horses in…