Midway is an old town right in the center of the Bluegrass, and just on the edge you’ll find an old college. It started as the Kentucky Female Orphan School, which came along in 1849, and later became Midway College, for women. Now it’s coed and has grown into a university with 1,200 students. And…
Researchers developed and validated a test to determine how easily individual horses become distracted.
Just like horses that hold records for being the fastest or jumping the highest, there’s also a record set for the tallest and the shortest horse.
Interesting study where Swiss researchers compared chewing patterns in six Warmblood riding horses to six heifers and six camels. What did they learn?
Wanted: One outgoing blond-haired, blue-eyed Alberta girl, aged six to nine, to become a new face on the family drama Heartland.
Sixty-six horses switched from being ridden with a bit to a bitless bridle showed dramatic reductions in 69 behaviours linked to bit-related pain..
Which setup results in the least rein tension: Western curb bits or English snaffle bits? The answer might surprise you.
How Horses Learn, an online course offered by Equitation Science International covers a broad range of topics to give you a short, but intensive, introduction to horse handling and training.
“This school gets you out in nature and the teachers spend time with you personally,” on graduate said. “You can breed horses, ride them and take care of them.”
In November 1992, the owner of the small hunter/jumper barn where I trained young horses called to tell me about a 6-year-old gelding she was going to see. She had heard about him from a trainer at the local racetrack; the horse’s owner had stopped paying his training fees and if she wanted the horse,…