When Your Horse Turns Out to Be a Lemon
…horse prior to purchase will not defend a dishonest horse seller being sued under a CPA. Depending on your state’s particular consumer protection act, a horse buyer who has been…
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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…
Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Infections in Horses
…as young horses, aged horses, and debilitated horses, should not be mixed with horses that do a lot of traveling. They may be harboring infectious organisms even if they are…
Put the Horse Before the Horse Cart
…the horse moves around you on a long rope. By staying behind the horse’s withers, you push the horse forward, using the horse’s driving instinct-the same instinct that will eventually…
Winter Care and Feeding
…most horses get their routine vaccinations in the spring. Booster vaccinations for diseases that are transmitted by direct contact, such as influenza, rhinopneumonitis, and strangles are recommended if the horse…
AQHA: Common Horse Health Issues
…animals from bothering the horse. Don’t: Force the horse to move. Symptom: Horse is down and refuses to get up. What It Means: Horse is either in a lot of…
Develop Your Dressage Horse’s Topline
…puzzle, there are rider pieces, horse conformation pieces, horse-reaction pieces, interpretation-of-aids pieces, temperament pieces and your horse’s heart or his willingness-to-please pieces. All of these physical, mental and emotional puzzle…
Transitions, the Secret to Balanced Riding
…the correct training one way or another. If you train well, you make an average horse into a good horse, and a good horse into a better horse and a…
Connecting With Your Horse in the Round Pen
…a time and rewarding the horse promptly, a whole range of ground manners will improve. That said, round pen training isn’t ideal for every horse, particularly horses with a tendency…
Master the “Slow Down” Cue
…horse to stop, but then also gives her horse a signal to keep going, the horse learns to disregard the stop signal. John says there are many ways that happens….