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Taking a dude ranch vacation? Learn about Western riding and hear a beginner's take on what it's like to ride Western style.
It?s important to your horse for his tack to fit properly. Ill-fitting saddles or bridles not only hurt your horse, they can cause permanent damage to his back, head and mouth. And once a horse knows that his tack hurts, he?ll fight you whenever you try to put it on him.
The best rides of all are when you can say, ?We were together all the way.? But being together means more than just staying in the saddle. It means your horse worked with you instead of against you.
How much do you know about horses? Check out this quiz from the American Museum of Natural History to see how smart you are about these beautiful creatures.
Learn all about the biology of the horse from this interactive exhibit from the American Museum of Natural History. See how a horse hears, smells, sees, runs, eats, etc. This exhibit shows you everything you'd want to know about how a horse functions.
Here Darley Newman and Equitrekking.com film some of the activities and exhibits at the Kentucky Horse Park and visit with the horses at the Hall of Champions..
The Horseback Riding Program rewards participants for spending time in the saddle, no matter whether it?s for work or play, and awards start at the 25-hour level. There?s a division for folks who ride American Quarter Horses and another one that's open to all breeds.
With all the new-fangled ways to take pictures today, some folks have begun to take photos for granted. But not Two Bits, an AQHA critter. He likes to do it the old fashioned way? probably because we won?t give him a cell phone with a camera included with it.
Appaloosa, Belgian Draft, Holsteiner, Quarter Horse ... These are just a few of the over 200 different horse breeds living around the world today. To find out more about 18 different breeds, go to this site at the American Museum of Natural History.
