CASE 1: Every time Suzanne Langan rode her horse, her trainer told her she had bad hands. Though she respected his input, she wasn’t exactly sure what she was doing wrong. After two years of his non-specific nitpicking, her...
Sometimes getting a history on a horse for a pre-purchase exam is difficult. But Fred, the potential buyer in this case, is a font of information. The horse, who we’ll call "Doc’s No Bueno,” has "fantastic bloodlines” (meaningless), is...
Friends are everything. There are good friends, close friends, best friends, long-distance friends, new friends and old friends.
And then there are barn friends.
There’s something special that connects us as equestrians, and there’s also something hilarious. After a great ride,...
Hello and happy Friday, everyone! Here’s what you can talk about with your barn friends this weekend.I’m starting off on a not-so-happy note because I think this is important. GoFundMe crowdfunding campaigns are all over Facebook and...
I’m taking an involuntary hiatus from showing during this phase of my life, primarily due to the fact that I am currently funding my horse’s retirement years. It’s not a bad thing. I know I’ll be back someday. But...
Recently I had the pleasure of talking horses with NBC Sports horse-racing reporter Donna Barton Brothers. You might have read about her this spring in Horse Illustrated or here on HorseChannel. On Friday, an essay she wrote about the...
Everyone needs to exercise, but not everyone enjoys it. Unless you find something you really love, getting motivated to exercise can be difficult.If you have Nemo, a miniature horse, leading your Jazzercise class, however, you’ll never find exercising...
I think some people are just born horse-crazy. I know I was. The longing for a horse when I was young was so overwhelming that it was downright painful at times. My family could never afford a horse, or...
Kuzko the alpaca lives at the Helen Woodward Animal Center in California along with many other animals, including a trio of Miniature Horses named Fable, Snacks and Halo. When the lot of them have playtime together, everyone has a...
HorseChannel.com spoke with Marion Maybank, a horse show manager based out of Wellington, Fl., Lexington, Ky., and Parker, Colo. Marion travels with the A show circuit and manages 13 horse shows a year and assists with another 22 a...
