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Ground Manners to Prepare Your Horse for the Vet

Prepare your trail horse for the veterinarian with these lessons in ground manners from noted clinician Julie Goodnight. | MORE

 

Trail Tips: Mount a Horse from Right Side, What to Pack on a Trail Ride

Learn from these trail tips how to mount your horse from the right side, where to stash your lead rope while trail riding and what to pack while trail riding. | MORE

 

Trail Tips: Trail Etiquette and Leading

These Trail Tips will show you the proper way to ride safely in a group and the best way to lead your bridled horse on the ground. | MORE

 

Trail Tips: Adjust the Curb Strap on Your Bridle and Wear Leather Chaps

Learn how to adjust the curb strap on your bridle and why you should choose leather chaps for trail riding. | MORE

 

Riding Gear

We couldn't fit every saddle and pad category into a single issue of Horse&Rider magazine, so here are two more classes of saddles and three categories of saddle pads to add to your list to consider. | MORE

 

Trailer Load the Right Way

Safely load and unload your horse from the trailer with this seven-step technique from top trainer and clinician Julie Goodnight. | MORE

 

Trailer-Load the Right Way

As an avid trail rider, you’re accustomed to loading and unloading your horse most every weekend. You travel to find and frequent the most scenic trails and add | MORE

 

Stop the Jig with Julie Goodnight

Is your horse “jiggy” and tense on the trail? Does he trot anxiously in place, refusing to move forward slowly and calmly? If so, you’re likely tense and | MORE

 

Be Prepared on the Road!

"Be prepared!” That’s the Boy Scout motto. An excellent motto for life, but it’s also an outstanding motto for trail riders, especially when you go on the road | MORE

 

Handling Hills with Julie Goodnight

Do you dread seeing a steep hill on the trail? Do you worry that your horse will speed up too much to gain momentum going up or to | MORE

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