Katie Cook, a USDF Silver Medalist and former Young Rider in dressage, is just getting her feet wet in eventing. She teaches riding lessons locally at her home base in Winooski, Vt., and she sent in
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Have you ever been in a grocery store, Best Buy, Kmart, or a local cafe and seen an infant that you thought was absolutely hideous looking? I mean, you actually thought how could someone reasonably
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Eventing can be a confusing sport. If I had a penny for every time I’ve been confounded by a question like “Will anyone notice if I sub in a different horse for dressage?” or “Why
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While both the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) and multiple national federations currently prohibit hyperflexion (also known as rollkur) for horses in competition, the Swiss officials have stepped it up one notch and created a national law
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Somewhere, people are splashing through the Caribbean with horses. I am not one of them. But it’s nice to dream. Today’s news includes dreams of August one-stars, better lives for OTTBs and a nod from
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Our friends at SmartPak have come up with some New Year’s Resolutions for 2014, from the rider’s perspective and the horse’s mouth. As it turns out, horses and riders have very different goals! What resolutions have you
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The weather in Ocala, FL lately has been unpredictable, to say the least. During the Eventing 18 training camp with David O’Connor last week, participants saw some unseasonable chilly rain on their cross-country schooling day. That
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Love this short and sweet reader submission from Samantha Stewart! Have something to share with us? Send it in to [email protected]. Each month we pick our favorite reader submission and award a free supplement from
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Badminton announced today on its website that prize money is increasing for this year’s event, going up to £80,000 from £65,000 for the winning rider. The lower placings will also receive a boost in prize money
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David Ramey, DVM, has been in private sport and pleasure horse practice in the Los Angeles area of southern California since 1984. He has published over a dozen books on horse health, and has lectured
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After reading Brianna Wiest’s pertinent and powerful “18 Things Women Shouldn’t Have to Justify,” I was inspired to compile a similar list for eventers, by eventers. I asked some friends, and here is an abridged
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Sometimes you have a weekend so great that you don’t really mind going back to work on Monday. I was fortunate to have one of those this past weekend. Sunday morning was spent galloping around
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During my forced day indoors today, I got to thinking about stress factors and how we handle them individually. Personally, I feel that I handle stress well. However, when I begin to break down the
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We recently asked you to send in your horse-inspired tattoos, and the response has been overwhelming. We will be posting your photos in several reader submission posts over the next few weeks. Would you like
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Well, I’m stuck inside today. It seems that the entire city of St. Louis has shut down with the amount of snow and sub-zero windchill that we are receiving. I got to thinking about what
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There’s nothing that says “horse person” quite as much as the sensation of a buzzing clipper in your hand for two hours straight, wearing a rain coat and rain pants inside the barn, and sneezing
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I’m reading this thought provoking book right now called “The Circle,” written by Dave Eggers. I am only about seventy-five pages in, so I cannot come to any grand conclusions yet, though so far I
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Since snow is in the forecast for the majority of the country this weekend, I thought it appropriate to bring you some horses in snow entertainment. I perused YouTube for quite awhile last night looking
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I almost feel guilty about our gorgeous weather here in California after seeing the colossal amounts of snow and frigid temperatures that everyone else seems to be enduring. Today is supposed to be another picture
...» Read More!Mustang competitions seem to be growing in popularity across the country. In order to control population, hundreds of wild mustangs are rounded up each year and auctioned off to the public to become domesticated. Mustangs
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As we settle in preparing for record breaking cold this weekend, I got to poking around for some farm management tips for the cold weather. Our beloved horses and their homes are definitely as risk
...» Read More!Horse & Hound recently published responses from several top riders on what items they never leave home without. Ranging from the horse itself to a lucky bag of gummy bears, it seems that many riders
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Big news coming from Camp Martin this morning. Boyd has announced that he put together a syndicate to purchase Shamwari 4, an 11-year old German-bred gelding that was competed on the Swedish Olympic team in
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