My horse and I have had a very successful week in our training, largely due to some wonderful tips I’ve gleaned from dressage trainer Jane Savoie’s blog. Specifically, I’ve been working on getting Ace to go on the bit and to round through his back and neck. Like many riders, I didn’t have a good [...]

Last week I had the distinct pleasure of visiting a friend at the Standardbred horse racing farm where she and her husband work. He is the head trainer while she works as a groom as well as with training the young horses. They currently have 36 young trotters in training to harness race. Of course, [...]

Two plus years ago when I started this blog, there was really only a small handful of active equestrian bloggers. Quite a few others started around the same time I did – and like Mrs Mom from OhHorseFeathers and OnTheBit – have become great friends. And our little corner of the world has since exploded [...]

Learn to recognize, treat, and prevent colic in your horse before it’s too late In a lifetime of riding, and a little over a year of horse-owning, I finally had to deal with my first bout of colic. Fortunately Ace just had a very minor case of gas colic from which he recovered in a [...]

If you have a horse lover in your life, you know that just about any Christmas gift that is horsey related is a big hit … even if it’s just an extra large bag of carrots for her horse. Fancy halters, pretty saddle pads, soft riding gloves, and warm socks always work too. But if [...]

It seems like just yesterday that I was writing about the 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games releasing the date tickets would go on sale. It’s been a year since then, and now there’s only a little over 24 hours left to wait. Ticket sales for the eight riding disciplines will begin at 12 noon Friday, [...]

Over a year ago I first wrote about the introduction of a new USHJA event, the International Hunter Derby. It was in its inaugural year then, and  just this last weekend completed it’s very first Finals event at the Kentucky Horse Park. The event was worth $100,000 in purse money, and participants didn’t have to [...]