Design the Perfect Horsey T-Shirt Contest

Enter this Blaze Kids Magazine contest! Send them your best t-shirt design that horse-crazy kids would love to wear. Your design can be a horse slogan, or a real-life picture or a carton… serious or funny. The top 10 Horsey T-Shirt Design Contest winners will receive an awesome gift prize from Blaze. Contest deadline: April…

Free Online Tool Enables Riders to Benchmark Their Horses Against Others

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…

Should Cloned Horses Be Allowed to Compete?

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…

Hoof Boots Can Protect Barefoot Trail Horses’ Feet

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…