I am sorry not to have mde a post for a while, but I have had to look after my family.  But hopefully things are back to normal, that is until I read this article about 74 dead horses being found at a ranch.  That was the bad news.  The good news is that 211 [...]

I was reading and interesting article all about horses hooves today and I thought it would make a good topic for today’s blog entry. All too often we give them a cursory once over with the hoof-pick and that’s that. But bearing in mind that they should be given much more attention than that I [...]

In horse training, it is not a good idea to use force. Even if the horse will follow you, it is not a reliable move. There isn’t one ‘best’ training approach. As mentioned earlier, horses are unique animals and you must identify the best approach that suits the horse’s personality. Some of the famous horsemanship [...]

When you’re into horse training, you need to find the best approach suitable to your horse. Some approaches work better than others and it all depends on the horse’s learning capacity. The learning pace of each horse varies; some learn faster than others and there are also those who are too stubborn to learn. Studying [...]

Everything started to boil up in January 20 of the year 1917 when the delegates from various horse shows set up a meeting in New York City. The council was then governed by Reginald C. Vanderbilt. The council’s main goal was to unify all horse shows and to conduct clean competitions inside the horse show [...]

The United States Equestrian Federation or USEF formerly bore the name of American Horse Shows Association. USEF is the national foremost institution which handles the equestrian sports that there are in the United States. Among those equestrian sports which the Untied States Equestrian Federation administers include the eventing, dressage driving, hunt seat equitation, endurance riding, [...]

What on earth is the world coming to when a prominent horseman is questioned about neglect of his horses??  It is incomprehensible to me that anyone can treat horses in that way, let alone any animal whether as a pet or not!  These people need to be ………!
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Proper nutrition helps your horse grow the best possible hooves. Just like people, some horses naturally have better hooves than others do. Your horse may have great feet but if he does not the following information may help:
 
Grass and hay is the simple way.
 
Free choice grass-hay diet is as simple as it gets but the [...]