7 Steps to Horse-Buying Success

Your first trail horse was wonderful, sweet, cooperative, smooth, and a joy to ride. You want your next trail horse to be exactly like him. Or, perhaps your first trail

Fifty Great Escapes

…Happy Trails Riding Stable and Campground, Otway. Schedule your visit over a weekend featuring a pig roast or an event sponsored by the American Competitive Trail Horse Association. benshappytrails.com; (740)…

Trailer-Tuneup Checklist

Time to tune up your trailer for this summer’s trail-riding adventures. | Photo by Heidi Melocco Time to tune up your trailer for summer’s trail-riding adventures. A well-maintained trailer will…

The Paint Horse

trail enthusiasts with its Ride America program (www.apha.com/rideamerica). Nearly 5,000 participants log their trail miles to receive national recognition and prizes. The APHA also sponsors several annual wilderness rides (www.apha.com/trailrides)….

Trailer-Cleaning Help

It’s summertime, peak trailer-travel season for trail riders! If you trailer often, you know how quickly your trailer can get dirty and how hard it can be to keep it…

Missouri Fox Trotter

trail rides and reward avid trail riders with national recognition and prizes.” One active trail-riding member of the MFTBA is Dale Lawson of Ava, Missouri. “I’ve been involved with Fox…

10 Gaited-Horse Myths: Busted!

…as competitive trail riding and endurance riding. If you do a lot of trail riding, you’ve probably seen and admired gaited horses without even realizing that they were gaited. Next…

The Great Rodeo Circuits

…Dates: July 19?22 Info: $13 general admission, $20 reserved seating; (831) 775-3100, carodeo.com One of the country?s oldest rodeos and the first to feature trick riding and barrel racing, Salinas…

Smooth Operator: Smooth-Gaited Trail Horses

A trusty trail horse will bring you years of enjoyable riding and camping adventures. A smoothgaited horse will carry you down the trail on a cloud of comfort. Such a…