Maintenance in the Downtime to Keep Your Horse Ready to Go
BY DANI SCHNEIDER
Everyone is feeling some sort of ramification from COVID-19, whether you’re an equestrian industry worker, healthcare provider, store employee, first responder, lawyer or a small business...
Therapy Barns in the Wake of the Corona Crisis
BY KARLA CAMPBELL
As the pandemic spreads across the country, barns are continuing to have to close their doors to their students. From elite training facilities to small town...
TPH Review: Rydale Clothing
BY JESS CLAWSON
Springtime means all kinds of weather, and those April showers mean cute all-weather riding gear. Like most of us, I’m on a budget, so you can...
Is it Burnout or the Wrong Path? Changing My Dream to Become a Professional
BY FALVEY BRENNAN
“I am over this, I’m just burnt out and can’t do it anymore.”
I have heard these words many times from the mouths...
Why It’s Never the Pony’s Fault
BY PONYMOMAMMY
I am firmly in the camp of never blaming the horse/pony when things go wrong. This concept has been engrained in me since I first put a...
On the Road to the World Show: Excuses, Excuses, and more Excuses.
BY JAMIE SKUBAL
Well, the only thing that I can say I have successfully done is try to keep my head above water.
I thought the...
When Buying a Helmet, Use Your Head
By Dana Miller • Chagrin Saddlery
Whether calculating a fast and clear jumper trip, finding the perfect distance to a fence or going on a relaxing trail ride, keeping...
The Healing Power of Rest
By Keelin Redmond, DVM
Physical training of the horse is essential. Everyone knows that in order to be strong enough and fit enough to run, jump, piaffe...
Horseback Across Three Americas
By Verne R. Albright
Verne R. Albright’s expanded rewrite of the Best Selling book about his 1966-1967 Peru-to-California ride – entitled Horseback Across Three Americas – will be...
Riding: The Mental Game
By Ashleen Lee
Good riding requires you to be both physically and mentally fit. You must be able to feel your horse and move with him. It is important...
An Open Letter to the Collegiate Equestrians
BY NOA LEIBSON
To my fellow athletes,
I know, I know. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. We were supposed to have another hurrah. We...
For the Love of Clarence
By Noreen Hyde
Something had to be done about Clarence, and fast. He’d been boarding at the local kennel, The Loving Paws, and even though Clarence knew it well...
What My Horse Told Me Through an Animal Communicator
BY RENNIE DYBALL
These are strange days. To say we’re all living in some sort of alternate universe right now isn’t an exaggeration. We’re in an unparalleled, unprecedented time...
Trainers’ Guide to Staying Home (Or, what am I going to do with them...
BY SISSY WICKES
The end of a long winter rising from the frozen base of an outdoor ring or seen through the slivered windows of an indoor. As trainers,...
Can the Equestrian Industry Afford to Go on Pause During Coronavirus?
BY DANI SCHNEIDER
The Equestrian world has come to a halt in the midst of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. While the safety and health of everyone and their horses...
Tips to Keep Your Barn Safe From Spreading Coronavirus
BY LAUREN MAULDIN
You can't deny it—we're in interesting times right now. In the span of about a week, the coronavirus went from being "just the flu" mostly in...
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Work.
BY PIPER KLEMM
As I prepare lecture notes for my college course this summer at St. Lawrence University, I’m always struck by the same identifiers of successful people appearing...
Removing Barriers to Success
By Cathy Penrod
Sometimes, the choices we make, or don’t make, limit our potential and our performance. Other times, we don’t even see all the choices that we have...
Taming Butterflies
By Emily Pope
Every rider who competes is familiar with the feeling of butterflies in the stomach before a big class. Maybe it’s the first time competing in a...
Look Good, Feel Good, Jump Good: Conditioning Horses for Show Ring Success...
By Emily Riden/Jump Media
There’s a saying that if one looks good, they feel good, and if they feel good, they "do good." While the expression may be...
The Best Ribbons Aren’t Always Blue
By Lauren Davis
I finished seventh in my adult medal (aka "Cougar Medal") this year in our Greater San Diego Hunter Jumper Association Championship Show. Of course I’d...
