Researchers investigated how lighting inside a trailer can affect a horse’s experience, especially during loading and when the trailer is stationary. They found that having consistent and bright LED lighting inside the trailer can make a difference.
In many ways, you can think of a hunter or jumper course as a simple math problem that you and your horse solve together. Surprisingly, horses are pretty good at figuring out the “math” of a jump, or a line, or a course. Once they have practiced it a few times and found a pace…
Controlling a horse’s head is an important part of riding, especially when going racehorse speeds. Trainers have a variety of bits at their disposal, with each fulfilling a specific function based on what the horse needs. Learning more about those more commonly used on the racetrack can clue fans into the personalities of the horses…
Though turnout has long been known to make a healthier horse, a new study from The Ohio State University suggests that the space available to the horse while he is outside is also important.
Sitting on a horse, it’s easy to assume that she sees the same view we see. But she doesn’t. Riding is a team sport in which two partners experience the world simultaneously but in very different ways. Color vision is a great example.
The results show that wild horses, just like humans, live in a complex, multilevel society, the structure of which can be understood by combining drone-based movement analysis and long-term population monitoring data.
A recent study sought to determine whether international dressage judges qualified to judge at the highest level of the sport may be prone to systematic errors when assessing elite horse-rider combinations during competition. Researchers examined 510 judging scores gathered from seven five-star dressage competitions held between May 2022 and April 2023. The effect of different…
Whether they pull a sulky, run a long distance, or sprint over a short quarter mile, three breeds are the stars of the sport of horse racing, but, of the three, who is the fastest and why?
Many horse and pony owners perceive their animals as being an ideal or healthy weight when they may be obese or overweight. The most commonly used standardized practical field method of assessing fat levels in horses and ponies is by body condition scoring (BCS). However, it has become clear that these BCS systems have a…
Nowhere else in the horse world are numbers, including fractions, more prevalent than in the racing industry. Whether you’re talking times or distances, numbers are all over the place.