Enter a Wild Horse Themed Writing Contest!

The Wild Beauty Foundation is hosting a writing contest with a theme of wild horses for youth between the ages of 10 and 18. A grand prize will be awarded to one middle-school (ages 10-14) and one high-school grade (ages 15-18) author. Top-five finalists in each category also will be named. All winners will have…

Horse Skills Behind a Good Piaffe Explored by Researchers

The piaffe is acknowledged as one of the hardest movements performed by dressage horses, in which the animal raises and lowers alternating diagonal limb pairs while remaining in place. For a horse, it is an artificial movement that requires balancing skills, and is required to be performed in place only at the highest levels of…