I think the single greatest joy of horse ownership, as I’ve learned over the past two years, is the simple act of getting to know your horse. It wasn’t that perfect walk-to-canter transition we had on Saturday, or the fact that Ace took all of his leads as requested for two rides straight. It wasn’t [...]

A Regarding Horses regular reader brought up an excellent point during the discussion surround Totilas’s sale to Germany and getting a new rider: getting sold is actually hardest on the horses. We’ve talked so much about how hard it must be for Edward Gal, and how much we hate to see such a special partnership [...]

Who do you have to thank for getting you started in the horse world? Who can thank you for getting them started in the horse world? Thank you mom! Thank you for putting me on horseback before I knew how much I loved them. Thank you for all the time you spent on the ground [...]

I am a second generation horsewoman. My mother is a horse-crazy grown-up girl. She taught me from the time I was little to safely and properly handle horses on the ground and under saddle. But what do you do if your daughter (or son) is horse crazy and you’ve never been on a horse in [...]

As a horse crazy girl since birth who had the good fortune of growing up around horses, I’m always amazed at the things un-horsified people will do and say. And I’ve encountered an interesting phenomenon lately: random mothers of young girls who invite themselves and their daughters to come ride my horse. Am I the [...]

Thanks to your input and willingness to share your winter blanketing policies, I decided to hold off on dressing Ace up for winter a little longer. We ended up with some warm days last week that made it a moot point anyway. But with temperatures still dropping below freezing at night, he’s finally growing in [...]

While I’m a long-time rider and horse woman, I am still relatively new to horse ownership. Caring for other people’s horses and being solely responsible for all decisions are two totally different things. As a result I’ve discovered two dormant weaknesses: I’m a chronic worrier and a chronic Googler. At the slightest hint of a [...]