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...
horseillustrated.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...
We’re not sure what the story behind this 2008 video is. Did the rider fall off? Did the horse just get loose? However this riderless pole bending horse ended up in the arena, one thing’s for sure. He knows...
Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s what’s been happening in the horse world this week.Perhaps you’ve heard: American Pharoah won the Triple Crown last weekend. There are a million articles with a million angles out there...
When I was pregnant with my first child, I worried: Will I loathe the baby if he keeps me from my horse?
Fortunately, life juggling kids and horses has been nothing like my gloomy, fretful forecast. Yes, I’m on a...
When writer Lisa Savage started teaching her teenage daughter to drive, she found many parallels between driving a car and riding a horse.My daughter started riding horses when she was 8 years old. At that time, learning to drive...
View image | gettyimages.comI am not a racing know-it-all, but I am a horse racing enthusiast. Especially after living in Lexington, Kentucky for a year and a half.
I am not a racing trainer know-it-all, either, but I’ve cheered for...
