How do horses respond to different human voices? When we are grooming a horse and talking softly, does the horse understand what we are communicating? Do they pick up on the way our voice sounds and not just our words? Most horse owners will tell you that their horses know when they’re being scolded or…
Jockey Julie Krone was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2013. With 3,704 career wins, Krone is the leading female Thoroughbred horse racing jockey of all time. 1. Krone had 21,412 starts in her career. What percentage of those starts were wins? Of her total starts, 3,261 were seconds and 2,913 were…
A horseless horse show is an event that allows children and adults to gallop over a course of miniature jumps, imitating the 1,000-pound animals and top riders they idolize. The participants pay an entry fee and the money goes to the organizer, Just World International, a great cause helping children in impoverished communities around the…
Caroline Butler of Keymar, Md., set her eyes on her dream pony –a red-and-white Chincoteague colt with a white diamond marking on his forehead. She began working to earn money by mowing grass and cleaning horse stalls. 1. In four months she saved $1,500. On average how much did she earn each month? The 15-year-old’s…
The fourth annual Model Horse Show at Gloucester County College drew model horse collectors from as far as Texas and Indiana, and raised nearly $1,500 in scholarship funds for students enrolled in the school’s equine science program. “It’s a large hobby that not a lot of people outside the community know about,” said show founder…
Math is involved at a fast pace when jumping a horse. An average a horse’s stride is 12 feet long, and a rider must figure out during the approach to a jump how to influence the horse’s stride to make the distance to the jump perfect. Do you need to lengthen or shorten your horse’s…
She’s slept inches away from scorpions and snakes, fended off attacks from wild stallions and broken her ribs and collarbone – all as part of an epic 10,000-mile long distance horseback ride. But for West Wales pony breeder Megan Lewis, her four-year challenge to ride from the 2008 Beijing Olympics to the start of the 2012…