Category: Riding

Like a lot of riders, I live with a long-term back injury that, while wasn’t solely caused by a fall, was certainly exacerbated by one. An injury that sadly wouldn’t have been so bad if I’d...

When I was much younger (in fact I was still in high school) I injured myself skiing, but what really made me laugh was the yard owner’s reaction when I told her I wouldn’t be able to come to...

Evolving from working cattle ranches where horses needed to be fast and nimble as well as intelligent and capable of thinking (and even working) on their own. Due to the long hours spent in the...

Life gets hectic, and even the most horse-crazy equestrians take time off. Between ages 6-24, I took lessons pretty consistently. But once I landed a corporate job after college, discovered...

Whether or not you should use spurs has always been a contentious issue with everybody having strong opinions on whether they’re a good or bad idea and even if they’re cruel or not. The problem...

All horses are born with a natural instinct to swim which its believed evolved from a time when, living in the wild, they needed to be able to cross deep water in order to either escape danger or...