Quick Take Western Training emphasizes minimal rein contact and neck reining, relying on seat and balance for long-day ranch ...

Everyone involved in the racing industry knows that one of the major problems in training horses is keeping them free from injury. Bones, joints, tendons, and ligaments are placed under considerable ...

Purdue University is partnering with Equitation Science International, a leading international source of equitation science information and education, to offer a distinctive online certificate for ...

That means I’ve dealt with a lot of horse shoppers and watched a lot of trial rides. More often than not, I am surprised by ...

It sounds completely backwards, the idea that you might actually increase health risks by postponing training and competition until a horse is four or older. It goes against the ages-old and widely ...

Hamish Lamond works day in, day out doing what some see as a dying art. He takes horses — animals unbroken and fearful of humans — and teaches them to feel safe under a saddle. It is an ancient role, ...

An Iowa horse trainer is denying what so many people are saying on social media: that images, being passed around, show an animal being abused. An expert examined the horse, the pictures, and gave the ...

In Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel War Horse, Joey, an English plow horse, narrates his own harrowing journey through the horrors of World War I. For the current blockbuster stage adaptation of War ...