To determine whip, spur, and noseband lesion prevalence researchers conducted a study looking at this equipment’s effect on horses competing in dressage, show jumping, eventing, or endurance in Denmark.
In an effort to raise the standard of eventing show jumping course design in the United States, US Equestrian has announced its plans for the 2018 Eventing Show Jumping Course Advisor Program.
Piper Klemm, PhD has created options for her career path, but specifically chosen to primarily direct her focus on her passion, equestrian sport. In a very short span of time, she has become a successful entrepreneur, innovator and influencer.
The Kansas Horse Council Foundation has awarded 15 youth scholarships to encourage education in the equine industry.
Veterinary students were reliably able to use the Horse Grimace Scale, a system designed to discern pain in equines, even without prior training in its use.
Researchers tested a technique to log heart rate and speed data from each horse in an attempt to monitor, step-by-step, the horse’s physical response to jumping during training, competition, and recovery.
Horses have their side preferences—called lateralization—much like humans do. We’re typically left-handed or right-handed; they’re “left-legged” or “right-legged.”
Are you interested in harness racing? Youth ages 11-18 are invited to learn about harness racing at an Introductory Day at the Harness Racing Museum & Goshen Historic Track July 9.
There’s more to keeping horses hydrated than simply providing them constant access to clean water.
He is an American Sugarbush Harlequin Draft horse officially named “Daisy’s Chief Dane” but now is known as Harley when he escorts Thoroughbred horses to the racetrack—and he’s noticed whenever he is on the track at Churchill Downs or Keeneland.