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…

Kentucky Derby Museum Offers FREE Cultural Pass

The Kentucky Derby Museum is offering FREE General Admission to Cultural Pass ticket holders. General admission includes: two floors of self-guided museum exhibits, our 360-degree immersive film: The Greatest Race, and a 30-minute Historic Waking Tour of Churchill Downs. June 1 – August 8, 2021, Tuesdays and Sundays, all day!

Science Identifies Stand-out Features of the Best Showjumping Horses

The muscle activity in the powerful hindquarters of showjumping horses has been laid bare in a just-published study. Three-dimensional kinematic measurements (relating to the geometry of motion) offered data into fundamental muscle activity patterns of selected superficial equine muscles during the jumps, delivering findings that agreed with scientific literature on the functional role of equine…