Sometimes all you need is a good pair of new shoes.
That was especially the case for Noir — a trick horse rescued from a slaughter pen in Pennsylvania and nurtured back to health by the New England Equine Rescue. To be a demonstration horse again, he needed shoes, desperately, but neither NEER nor his foster [...]

I went to visit some friends near Southampton at the weekend and my friend Elizabeth is an avid horse rider.  We went over to her stables to look at her horses and she brought one over to us from the field where it was grazing.  As we stood by the gate for no apparent reason, [...]

Always think in terms of safety first when handling horses–safety for you, the horse, and anyone else in the general area. Like it or not, horses are fight or flight creatures and can be unpredictable when faced with new people or surroundings. With quick thinking and action, close attention to the horse’s language, and some [...]

All horses, regardless of when they were actually born, are considered to have a common birthday of January 1. This is one of the reasons most horsemen don’t like their foals to be born late in the year: Even if a foal is born on December 31st he or she will have their first birthday [...]

Yes, an intriguing story and nothing to do with illusionist David Copperfield.    You can find out all about it here

No one can have missed all the press about the breakup of Jordan and Peter.  Jordan has plunged into black moods since Peter, 36, dumped her after she was snapped flaunting her chest and flirting with horse-riding coach Andrew Gould.  Well, she was always know for her love of horses, but not necessarily for her [...]

There is a major problem worldwide about what to do with unwanted horses and really there are just four options
The best remaining options for unwanted horses include:
1. Market the horse privately through websites, riding stables and barns, feed and tack stores, local and regional horse magazines and publications, veterinarians and farriers, horse shows and organizations.
2. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]