Maybe your dad shared your love of horses and riding. Or maybe he never rode a horse, but supported you by driving the truck and trailer, documenting every horse show moment on video, or by simply being your rock...
The Omaha skyline at night from the vantage point of the riverfront park along the Missouri.The FEI World Cup Longines Show Jumping Finals and the FEI World Cup Dressage Finals are coming back to the U.S.A. to be staged...
It’s not often that one animal can change the entire course of its breed - but that’s exactly what a chestnut Quarter Horse by name of Doc Bar did in the latter half of the twentieth century. Considered to...
Nothing makes me cringe more than seeing tack that was once nice lying in a dirty heap on the bottom of the tack room floor, piled high with dust and bits caked with dried hay and slobber. So, to...
I’m writing this from my front porch somewhere near the center of Lexington, Kentucky. My dog is snoozing to my right. I have the remainder of this afternoon’s iced coffee (which was once this morning’s hot coffee) on my...
Give me strength to guide my horse.
Make my hands soft and my head clear.
Let my horse understand me, and I her.
So begins "A Rider's Prayer," a piece of writing whose original author is unknown, but with a...
Riding with fitness trackers provides workout data for equestrians, such as heart rate and calories burned.Fitbit, Apple Watch, Jawbone, Garmin. Fitness trackers are all the rage, and many equestrians have embraced them as a means to measure the health...
Georgia Fisher and Travis enjoy a good read together. Photo: Janis Herd.I’ll never forget the day my husband discovered my little secret.
We were sitting next to each other on the couch. I was still in dirty breeches following...
Even the kindest horses don't typically part with their food, much less deliberately give it away. That makes the handsome bay in today's featured video that much more exceptional.This video circulated the internet a couple of years ago and...
Laurie Carlson's introduction to We Can Ride, a non-profit therapeutic riding organization in Minnesota, was straightforward enough. She had always been, as she says, "horse crazy,” and volunteering with the organization enabled her to spend time with the animals...
