Side effects of horses may include: Health; happiness; friendship; the uncontrollable desire to get outside and ride.
There's a popular short humor piece that has been circulating the Internet since as far back as 2001 titled "Potential Danger of Horse...
As horsepeople, there are a lot of misconceptions about what we do. The non-horsey folks seem to think we're:Filthy Rich
Somehow involved in Thoroughbred racing
Stuck...
Happy Friday, readers! I hope you had a productive week and have plenty of barn time planned for this weekend.
This news roundup tends to be on the lighter side, but there are a couple of disturbing stories this week...
Remember the toilet paper commercial from a few years ago that had an incredibly adorable puppy bounding around? I feel compelled to buy that toilet paper.
I’ll admit it. I’m probably going to buy something if there’s a dog or...
I just returned from a fantastic week of vacation. I have a pretty sweet gig here at Horse Illustrated, but I have to say, it was really nice to not look at a computer for a week and just...
If you want to get into the sport of reining, it helps to have a horse like Gunners Special Nite, the AQHA/APHA stallion who took Tom McCutcheon to individual gold at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. But...
In 2010, Spain's Maria Alvarez Ponton rode her horse Nobby to individual gold in the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games endurance ride. She did it less than two month's after giving birth to a baby girl. That's impressive.Almost as...
"Which horse is yours?”It was an innocent question. I was leaning on a fence watching a lesson in an outdoor arena at a stable near Centreville, Virginia. But the girl I posed the question to (early 20s, like I...
"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels."This popular quote is used to illustrate how women in history often worked harder for less acclaim than their male counterparts. The same idea could apply...
While researching wild animals for various projects over the past couple of years, the term "survival adaptation” often rears up. A survival adaptation is a physical attribute or a behavior that helps a wild animal survive. Like wolves’ innate...
