When I was young, we replaced our saintly first horse with a horse that wasn’t so much chestnut as red—the color nature usually reserves for things you shouldn’t eat. Or touch. Or look at funny. And as a fellow...
For the past few years, I’ve intended to make the trip to Lebanon, Ohio’s annual Christmas Carriage Parade, but I could never quite make it work. Last year, HorseChannel contributors MacMillan Photography covered the event for us, and seeing...
Learning to lift correctly and developing the right muscles will improve your riding, reduce your risk of injury and make barn chores easier.Riding horses is your life. You live and breathe horses and spend endless hours with them at...
Photos by Shelley Higgins, Sarah Miller and Kim MacMillanHalloween was over, Thanksgiving was still a couple of weeks away and the show season was winding down…so what to do? Why not head up north for Christmas shopping at The...
Hello and happy Friday, everyone! Here’s what’s been happening in the horse world this week.Yet another change to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s once-straightforward plan to rid the city of carriage horses. Limiting the...
Jean Abernethy’s first horse was a grinning, buggy-eyed stick horse. She remembers being disappointed when she unwrapped "Charlie Horse” because, as she says, "This was not the black stallion who danced in my dreams.” But she eventually learned to...
My horse, Misha, was featured in People Magazine as one of "The 25 Most Intriguing People of 2000." The reason: in 1999, Misha, a 16-hand, 1,280-pound Quarter Horse, qualified as the world’s only housebroken horse.
I told the media it...
My father was fond of reminding buyers during their horse hunt that they would not ever ride the horse’s head. In other words, don’t get derailed by good—or bad—looks when shopping for a steed. At the end of a...
Christmas letters are a nice way to update friends and relatives on what’s happening in your life. Of course, if your life revolves around horses, it’s possible that your non-equestrian relatives won’t make it through to the end of...
I’m at my office job from about 8 to 5 each weekday, and horses are on my brain 24 hours a day. As a horse person, I often look at office situations through a barn lens. The parallels simply...
