Barn Lounge

BY BRITTANY FRADE In the world of horses, ponies, showing and ribbons there is no shortage of horse rider partnership/ownership options. Like many other riders, I hit a stage in my...

BY JESS CLAWSON Kym Smith has created a name for herself in the hunter world. She took on the title sponsorship of the Kym K. Smith/USHJA Young Hunter Pony...

By Jess Clawson Most US equestrians live and ride on the mainland which encompasses quite a bit of regional diversity in the sport, but people ride and compete in...

BY PONYMOMAMMY Dating as far back as I can tell, the fashion world has been drawn to the iconic equestrian look. Some brands, like Ralph Lauren and Hermes, have...

BY MOLLY SORGE/JUMP MEDIA Qualifying for and competing in the Ariat National Adult Medal Final at the Capital Challenge Horse Show means so much more to Dana Lee Brawley...

If you asked the typical horse lover about interior design, they are likely to suggest styling their home after a luxurious barn filled with hundreds of photos of their beloved horses. We...

BY LISA CURRY MAIR Most of the people who know me think of me as an artist. Someone who paints pretty pictures of peaceful scenes, usually with a horse...

A Fresh Start with Wild Horses, Three Daughters and Gumption BY KIM HINSON It was a boy, of course. A girl leaving her home and...

BY LAUREN MAULDIN I’m not really what you would call a fashionable person.  Growing up, my favorite outfit was a pair of jeans and a t-shirt....

BY COLLEEN FITZPATRICK Some people say that horses walk into your life for a reason. But Miss Moppet doesn’t walk, she struts. A sashay perhaps. She came strutting, sashaying,...

BY JULIE STIELSTRA The bridle hanging in my tack locker bloomed with mold. I rather resent the steamy midwestern summers that force me to clean tack before I ride as well...

BY JESS CLAWSON Making it as a professional in the horse world can be challenging… that’s perhaps an understatement.  The isolation, long hours, even longer list...

BY JAMIE SKUBAL  Today, I’m sitting in the middle of my horse’s possible sale. To be honest, this is not the side I’m used to sitting on. If you...

BY GORDON BALLANTYNE It is finally the end of the horse show season, and I’m putting another one in the books—more like an entire library by this point.  The...

Tack rooms. It's where we throw our piles of tack and stacked up saddle pads that need washing. There's usually a barn cat or a corgi curled up by the window, and...

BY SCOT TOLMAN Here’s my method of determining and/or influencing the sex of unborn foals: in the stalls of the mares from whom I want colts, I hang at...

This is a hard sport. There are so many setbacks, countless heartbreaks and reasons to pack it all up and try something easier. But we can't do that, because this is what...

BY LUMI CALLASTRATUS My sister and I bought back our childhood pony, Gemini, for two dollars. Now he sits at our parents’ blue berry farm looking cute amongst the spring blossoms....

BY SARAH SMIT Usually the only worry I have when we take clients on one of our horse-buying trips to Holland is if they’ll get lost on a night...

BY MARY LYNNE CARPENTER Perseverance and grit. As equestrians, we hear a lot about these personality characteristics. When equestrians tell stories, they often reference perseverance and grit as...

BY MARYANNA HAYMON Without breeders pouring their hearts and souls into the creation of foals, there would be no riding horses in three years, here or anywhere else. In...

BY ELLISON NEUMANN An article can’t tell you if you’re “enough” for this sport. I have no clue if I am myself. I’m young, I should feel...