We all probably had a favorite toy as children. Perhaps it was a doll or a truck or maybe Legos. For Batu, 3-month-old Przewalski’s horse living at the Denver Zoo, that favorite toy is a big, green ball.Zoo staff...
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Morestead in his three-piece suit? Photo via Gloucestershire
Echo/TwitterLadies, you love a well-dressed man, right? Well, what about a well-dressed horse? Morestead, a veteran racehorse, has donned a three-piece tweed suit, including shirt and...
I was an oddly skinny child—so skinny my mother invested in the type of weight-gain powder given to really sick hospital patients, which I shoveled in nightly in the hopes that one day, I might attend a pool party...
Kim and her Haflinger, Bailey TOF, have competed through Second Level in dressage.Handmade leather browbands accented with gemstones and beads are the centerpiece of Kim Phillips’ business, Enter At A. She also offers jeweled stock-tie pins and leather memory...
Last week, I got a message through Facebook that surprised me and warmed my heart. It made me cry, actually. You might have read my blog post about Tony D. here a couple weeks ago. I was writing about...
It’s a widely known fact that practicing any sport that differs from your regular routine can leave you with sore muscles, and as avid equestrians, we know horseback riding requires a unique set of muscles. Non- riders, like your...
From new foals to spring grass and overly exuberant pasture playtime, spring is the busiest time of year for equine vets.Put on your sweatband and turn up the Rocky theme song: it’s spring. In the horse world, that means...
The sorrel filly with the white star stood dismally along the fence line, her right front limb pointed and her flanks drawn. Her pretty head was hanging low, and a dreadful wound was visible on the painful limb just...
Ninety years ago, in 1926, a little brown colt was born at Lady Wentworth’s Crabbet Arabian Stud in Sussex, England. The sire of the foal was the famous Skowronek; the dam was *Rifala, herself a Skowronek offspring. The colt...
Exactly one month ago, we met a horse named Rocky who had an odd friendship with a chicken at his farm. Was it a friendship, or was the hen using Rocky for his height? Or was Rocky using the...
