Do you know the origin of this well known phrase or saying?  Well, as you probably know, it means “don’t be ungrateful when you receive a present”. 
As horses age their teeth begin to project further forward each year and so their age can be estimated by checking how prominent the teeth are. This incidentally is [...]

So, it’s that time of year again.  It’s the credit crunch, we have no money, but we’ll gladly watch hundreds of our hard earned dollars go up in smoke.  What madness!!
However, with firework parties abounding, it is time to think about our horses and other pets of course.
The problem with loud noises and startling explosions, [...]

In the main horses have “monocular” vision, which means they see a different image from each eye.  Clever huh?  A horse is seeing two different pictures at the same time most of the time.  However as horse can also have “binocular” vision when both eyes work together to a single image.  A horse only has [...]

Zara Philips is returning to London after breaking her collarbone at a showjumping competition in France, the event’s organisers said.
The Queen’s granddaughter fell from her horse, Tsunami II, at a cross country event at Pau, near the French Pyrenees.
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A horse had to be cut free with a chainsaw after it managed to get its head stuck in a tree.
The young filly needed to be freed from the tree after curiosity got the better of it and it wedged its head between separate sections of the trunk.
The horse, called Gracie, was unable to free [...]

ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2008) — In a potential breakthrough for the performance horse industry (such as racing and polo), Melbourne scientists are aiming to harness stem cells to repair tendon, ligament, cartilage and bone damage in horses.
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 In earlier posts we have looked at the various riding styles and covered the most popular, such as english, western, saddle seat and hunt seat.  There are a few others, so the next few posts will cover these.
The dressage style of riding is English and is one of the oldest styles in practice today.  Commonly [...]

Horseback riders should always ride in the same direction; however, if this is not possible then they should ride left shoulder to left shoulder
Slower riders should ride on the inside closer to the arena walls while the faster riders working on the outside (closer to the center of the arena)
Always mount the horse before entering [...]

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — A miniature horse has been given a second chance for a career as a show horse — thanks to a prosthetic eye. The 65-pound horse, named KBuck, was born June 1 at Lil Chums Miniature Horse Farm in Lawton and lost its eye a few days after birth. Owner Kelsey Chumbley, [...]

A horse in the wild needs no shoes, the wear and tear that the feet are subjected to while the horse is hunting for his food in the country on soft meadows, is just right to keep the hoofs down in a normal condition. But when the horse is stabled and ridden, travelling on hard [...]