A free online tool developed by scientists enables riders to benchmark their horses against thousands of others in terms of welfare, training and behaviour. On completion of the questionnaire, contributors will receive a graph that compares their horse with 1000s of other horses across various different categories. They will also receive a private dashboard where…
Research carried out by Naomi Hartmann and Linda Greening in the Equine Science Department of Hartpury University examined the effect of playing classical music to horses at night.
Schools and colleges over the U.S. offer plenty of ways to engage with horses all through advanced education. Here’s a list of eight top schools offering an assortment of equine encounters.
To better monitor the activities of the Przewalski’s horse population in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, researchers are using satellite technology to monitor the living conditions of the species as winter settles in.
A new research initiative from the University of Kentucky Sports Medicine Research Institute is looking closely at jockey performance – and the work has implications not only for the jockeys themselves, but also for the thoroughbreds they ride.
A new study suggests that returning feral horses to grasslands in Czech Republic could increase populations of some threatened butterfly species.
A research project suggests that Dartmoor ponies not only make a positive contribution to conservation management on Dartmoor, but are also a suitable option for conservation grazing throughout the country.
This winter, top competitors in the equestrian world will return to their seasonal home in Wellington, Fla., for three months of hunter/ jumper and dressage competition. The equine athletes will include some with price tags in the seven figures; top international mounts jetted in from Mexico, the UK and Belgium; and, flying discreetly under the…
Gabriella Lynn, a student at Western Kentucky University, in Bowling Green, conducted a study to determine Cavallo Trek boots’ effects on hoof pressure distribution. In her study, Lynn measured pressure distribution as horses walked over Fujifilm Low Prescale Film barefoot and when wearing boots, on asphalt and over crushed stone. The color film images revealed…
Emilie Sénèque and her colleagues from the University of Rennes hypothesized that horses with compromised welfare would reveal them through chronic body postures. For their study, they carried out posture analysis using morphometric geometrics to measure, quantify and compare postures between horses.