If you missed ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition episode featuring the Luther family and their Freedom Hills therapeutic riding facility that aired last night, you can watch it online for free at ABC’s website.
I had a last minute night out with some friends, so the episode is waiting for me on the DVR. Hopefully I’ll [...]

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Does anyone else think The Man From Snowy River is the best horse movie ever made?
Well it is. If you haven’t seen it, you should. And if you think any other horse movie is better, I strongly beg to differ. I grew up on this movie, and you can’t beat the Australia mountains, the wild [...]

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The clinicians at Equine Affaire really can make or break the experience. People who are excellent riders, even good trainers, aren’t always the best teachers — at least in a public setting. The first year my mom and I went to Equine Affaire in Columbus, OH, the hunter/jumper clinics were taught by R. Scott Evans [...]

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I saw this video over on Learning Horse’s blog and couldn’t resist sharing. I can just watch it over and over and over.

This horse has quite a jump; the kind that useful in the jumper ring since he has absolutely no intention whatsoever of coming remotely close to touching that fence. However, it doesn’t look [...]

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One thing I’ve never been properly trained in is how to teach a headset for hunters and jumpers–that nice, round neck with head vertical to the ground that is so pretty (it’s not just pretty, though, it’s functional!). I know how to ask a horse for it who already knows how, but I’ve been [...]

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I discovered a new, and very cool horse blog today called the Transylvanian Horseman. The writer is from Britain, but moved to Romanian and started a riding centre and holiday riding/tourist business there.
He recently posted about major issues arising for a large majority of Romanian’s population due to a government ban on animal-drawn transportation on [...]

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The biggest problem with the campaign to stop horse slaughter in the U.S. is the lack of a better solution for dealing with an over-population of horses and a declining economy.
One of the headline articles in the New York Times online this morning was a general overview of the horse slaughter debate, “Death Across the [...]

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