COLLEEN RUTLEDGE When Martha McDowell attended the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event for the first time in 2004, it was as a spectator on a family trip from her home in Montana....
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_riding_training/two-eventing-riders-live-their-dreams/
[/caption] Quick: What’s the key ingredient of most winning hunter rounds? Seeing every jumping distance? Wrong! It’s rhythm—an even rhythm, consistent pace. In fact, a rhythmic round on a horse with...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_riding_training/never-miss-another-jumping-distance/
[/caption] September 24, 2012--After three days and numerous tests, Samantha Harrison (La Canada, CA) found herself leading the victory gallop of the 2012 Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Finals West....
Sometimes, no matter what you do, you can’t seem to get ahead at a dressage show. You think your dressage horse is going really well at home, and then at...
[/caption] Is your horse getting the nutrition he needs from his feed? If you give him a commercial concentrate, the answer to that question is on the feed bag....
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/nutrition/feeds/understand-horse-feed-labels/
[/caption] Chip Cook knew something was wrong the moment he looked out his kitchen window. Star, his wife’s 20-something Thoroughbred mare, was lying very still in a large mud puddle in the...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/rescued-pulling-a-horse-stuck-in-a-mud-puddle-to-safety/
Fast Fear, Slow Fear Another way horses and other animals differ from us is that they tend to experience fear “faster” than we do. There are two ways fear is experienced...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/health/behavior/whats-your-horse-thinking/
A lateral walk is not a clear four-beat walk. It is a pace in which the legs move on the same side in unison. Unfortunately, it is sometimes the best...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_riding_training/english/dressage/lateralwalk_080207/
[/caption] You probably need no lessons on how to cut your everyday horse-care costs. As mandatory enrollees in The School of Struggling Economy, that's something we've all had to learn in...
Because I need to develop a language—a means of communication—with my Labs, my first task is to teach them the meaning of certain commands and signals. I use very simple...
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