Lexington, Kentucky has become my new favorite hot-spot – I’m headed there this weekend for the third time in less than a year for the 2nd Riders4Helmets Helmet Safety Symposium. Organizer Lyndsey White invited me to come down and cover the event for the Riders4Helmets website. I’m absolutely thrilled for so many reasons. I’m a [...]
Tonight begins the first of several official Horse World Gives Back events in which the horse world unites to help the victims of the recent floods and tornadoes. Here’s why it’s so important that we come together to support our equestrian friends across the US: The destruction and loss of life, human and animal, has [...]
I gotta say – I think I have a much greater fear of a disaster hitting the barn where Ace lives than of a disaster hitting my house. I can watch weather reports and hide in the basement if a tornado comes, and know I have the mental faculties to keep myself safe. But if [...]
Ace was ticked at me on Tuesday. I suppose he had good reason; he had his teeth floated earlier in the day. As much as I hate going to the dentist for a simple cleaning, I can imagine how unpleasant a giant drill in your mouth must be. But that’s horse ownership – doing what’s [...]
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’m always a sucker for a good horse-related cause. I’m an even bigger sucker – I mean SUPPORTER – when that good cause is remotely related to therapeutic riding or para-equestrian. I’m able-bodied and my horse is the best mental and physical (yeah, and emotional too) therapy I could ever get. And as a regular [...]
We are currently in the middle of two of my most favorite weeks of the year, book-ended by two of the greatest annual US equestrian events: the Rolex Kentucky Three Day and the Kentucky Derby. And besides the horse people, they are tied together by one significant common denominator: Thoroughbreds! With Thoroughbreds the only breed [...]
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