This blog originally ran in 2018.
Parents, let your daughters grow up to be horse girls.
Let them learn early the joy of dirt under their fingernails and the...
Equitation class tests have been expanded and revamped for the new show season that starts Dec. 1. The previous 17 tests from which judges could choose have...
If someone told Corentin (“Cory”) Tual four years ago that he would be managing Lillie Keenan’s top grand prix horses today, he wouldn’t have believed...
Several rule changes and presidential modifications to the dressage section of the USEF Rulebook will take place for the 2023 competition season, which begins...
When Isabella David walks into the ring, her trainer’s advice rings through her head. “You want to be the pressure for everyone who goes after you,” says...
Beverly Strauss co-founded MidAtlantic Horse Rescue with Ginny Suarez in 2002 in Chesapeake City, Maryland. They average 100 rehomes a year of horses...
As I write it’s the morning of the fifth and final day of the 2018 Chicago regional session of the USHJA’s Emerging Athletes Program. In front of me at HITS-Chicago sits a...
There isn’t a gentle way to start this post, so I’m just starting: [In March], my horse passed away.
It was a Monday, so the barn was closed until 3 p.m. As you can...
Summer has hit us like a freight train, with heat indexes over 100* and high humidity here in Virginia. Summer is long and unrelenting here in the South, so it’s acclimate or...
In my teens and 20s, becoming a better rider was about surviving in the sport.
As a kid from a non-horsey family without enough money to buy and care for a horse, learning to...
This afternoon I got a phone call from a friend and fellow event rider who has just been named to the reserve list of a certain team competition in September. I was really hoping...
I have to admit that this might be my favorite portion of this series to write. What I normally see when an equine job ad pops up on social media is something so abrasive,...
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