Best trimming and shoeing practices to ensure your horse stays sound while traveling the trails When you’ve looked forward all week to your day off, so you can take to the trails, the last thing you want to find is your horse favoring a foot as he greets you at the pasture fence. Lameness can
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Help your horse shed his excess pounds safely When your horse started shedding this spring, did you discover beneath that long, fuzzy winter coat a hefty horse in serious need of weight loss? Obesity creates health risks for your horse, so stepping in with a weight-loss strategy is the responsible, kind, and caring thing to
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Old-time horsemen relied on liquid suspensions of herbal extracts known as liniments to ease their horses’ aching muscles, tendons and joints. Their liniment recipes were often closely guarded secrets passed from generation to generation. Case in point: Absorbine Veterinary Liniment, which was invented by Mary Ida and Wilbur F. Young just before the turn of
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When I do a clinic, participants over 40 often apologize for their age and confess that they wanted to come to a rider fitness clinic because their bodies don’t work like they used to. What’s ironic about the confession is that the majority of my clients and clinic participants are over 40. Where I live
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You could buy the most interesting foal in the auction, but what if it has a flaw where its feet or stance are concerned? Do not easily assume that the farrier will be able to make things right. What can breeders and buyers do in co-operation with the farrier? Farrier Ramon Koppendraaier from Lichtenvoorde has
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With the rise of commercial genetics testing, we now have access to a load of new information that may indicate disease, nutritional preferences, and the behaviour of our horses. However, are these genetic tests reliable when it comes to diagnosing disease, particularly muscle disorders? Well, that is exactly what researchers out of Michigan State University
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Research suggests that horses are better able to interpret human gestures than previously thought, and some can even discern the credibility of information presented to them. A study conducted at Kyoto University builds on previous work showing that horses can understand human pointing cues—following a gesture indicating the location of a treat, for instance. To
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Spring cleaning season is here, and if you dread organizing closets and mopping behind the refrigerator this spring, you’re not alone. Most of us would rather spend our time and energy cleaning the barn instead. For horse people, spring-cleaning is about more than tidying up the tack room, though. As you tackle the job this
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The U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation is headquartered at the famous Hamilton Farm in Gladstone, New Jersey. The legacy of the historic venue is incomparable in American equestrian sports. “The sport grew because of what happened here,” said Sally Ilk The headquarters for the USET is based at Hamilton Farm and in the equestrian world, it’s known as
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Earlier this year, the richest horse race in the world was run at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, just outside Miami. The first-of-its-kind $12 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational surpassed the Dubai World Cup as the world’s richest Thoroughbred horse race. Entrants each ponied up $1 million for one of the 12 starting spots,
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The U.S. Dressage Federation has announced the selected dates and locations for the 2023 Great American Insurance Group/USDF Regional Dressage Championships. Dates and Locations: • Region 1 (Oct. 5-8) at the Virginia Horse Center, Lexington, Virginia• Region 2 (Sept. 21-24) at Lamplight Equestrian Center, Wayne, Illinois• Region 3 (Oct. 5-8) at the Florida Horse Park, Ocala, Florida• Region 4 (Sept. 28-Oct. 1) at Maffitt
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The United States Polo Association is pleased to announce that it has purchased the core assets of the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington, Florida (“IPC”). The USPA has acquired 161 acres from WEP Polo LLC and WEP Polo Operations LLC, including Fields 1 through 5, the IPC grandstand, the Pavilion, the Mallet Grille,
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