For any of you who have joined the Regarding Horses crew in recent months, you may not know as much about my horse Ace and I. The quick version is that I grew up riding hunters, now prefer to dabble in dressage, jumping, and hacking out (with my sights on some local mini trials in [...]

In the nearly two years since I finally began canter work with Ace, he’s never really had that “aha” moment where he understood the aids for a specific lead. I’m a relatively self-aware rider, so I know that at times his issue was actually mine in that I wasn’t asking clearly. However, because Ace was [...]

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 [...]

The rumors of earlier this week have been confirmed: 26-year-old Matthias Alexander Rath has earned the ride on Totilas for Germany and new owner Paul Schockemohle. He has some seriously big shoes to fill, as the record-setting scores and triple gold medal rides of Edward Gal on Totilas at the World Equestrian Games are still [...]

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 [...]

How do you ride when you know someone is watching, versus when you are all alone? Last weekend I had Glenn and Jennifer from Horse Radio Network (their daily online radio show Horses In the Morning starts a week from yesterday!) at my house for a few days. After a lengthy planning session and a [...]