Bareback Summertime Freedom
For some, it's vacations and picnics, ballgames and fireflies. For me, summer is about riding. Even though I'm long past the age when the end of the school...
For some, it's vacations and picnics, ballgames and fireflies. For me, summer is about riding. Even though I'm long past the age when the end of the school...
The "cures" available for aching backs are more often than not corrections of the hurtful things riders inadvertently inflict on their horses during use. If the diagnosis of...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/health/illnesses_injuries/backpain_treating_070803/
So you think you know all there is to know about horses' feet? You've not only heard the saying "No foot, no horse," you claimed to have coined it yourself?...
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[/caption] "Your horse looks like he is goose-stepping!" Those words, spoken by one of the teenagers clustered around the gate of the arena as we warmed up our horses for our Tuesday...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/health/illnesses_injuries/epm053197/
So, the new year is upon us and we're all in a mood for positive change, right? As a nation, we've been attacked and abused, but have come back with...
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For Christmas one year, my adult students got together and, knowing I was low on income, bought me four weeks worth of groceries and set me up with a spice...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Since this story was published, CANTER has rescued countless horses. Make It Happen, shown here with owner Mary Hejna in his first event, was one. Although the majority...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/health/rescue/eqcanterco476/
My doctor finally had to get gruff with me: "You have bone loss--osteopenia--and are heading for osteoporosis [brittle, porous bones]," she told me. "You have a choice: Deal with it...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/health/rescue/premarin021603/
[/caption] Q: I am helping a friend train her horse, an 8-year-old Appaloosa gelding she has owned for more than a year. Her horse responds well to my leg cues,...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_riding_training/clear-cues-for-the-canter-depart/
A coughing horse always gets your attention. Loud, dramatic, entire-body affairs, equine coughs are impossible to ignore--particularly if you are mounted on the horse at the time. But the sound and...
http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/health/illnesses_injuries/bad_cough_121608/