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Horse-Camping Help: How to Bank a Pool

When you’re fortunate enough to horse-camp near a stream, bank an environmental pool. With a banked pool, you won’t have to wander up and down the stream bank | MORE

Be Water-Wise on Your Next Horse-Camping Trip

Your trail horse needs about 10 to 30 gallons of water per day to stay hydrated and healthy. You’re responsible for meeting his critical water needs, whether you | MORE

Explore Kananaskis Country

Destination: Moose Mountain Horseback Adventures, Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. Best time to go: June to September. Overview: This five-day pack trip took a group of intrepid riders into | MORE

Fireproof Your Horse Barn

A barn fire is every horse owner’s worst nightmare. Your stalled horse is particularly vulnerable, because barns are packed full of combustibles. Here are 12 lifesaving fire-safety tips. | MORE

Water-Crossing: How to Prevent Dizziness

“Don’t look at the water!” That was my father-in-law’s advice to my wife, Emily, as our horses picked across the rocky bottomed swift stream. The horse, Elmer, had | MORE

Trail-Ride into Old West History

Lincoln County, New Mexico, is a land embedded in history. Billy the Kid, Kit Carson, Black Jack Pershing, the Buffalo Soldiers, and the Apache all rode here. The | MORE

Control a Spook

A fine spring morning finds you and your horse trotting along a familiar trail. You’re feeling at one with your horse and the world around you, when suddenly | MORE

Horse Lameness Check

Lameness can be definitively diagnosed only by your veterinarian, but the detective work of the diagnosis is best performed as a team. A prognosis for a full and | MORE

Westfall Horsemanship: Trail-Safety Tips

Brush up on your trail-safety savvy! Here, world champion reining competitor and top clinician Stacy Westfall offers her top trail riding tips. Plus, she shows you an exercise | MORE

Ask Julie Goodnight: Your New Trail Horse

Q: How can I increase trust with my new horse on a new trail? I look forward to riding my new horse on the trail but our relationship | MORE

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