My mother is a doctor. This means that throughout my life, I’ve come to her with myriad self-diagnosed ailments. When I tell her that I Googled my symptoms,...
Kimberly Beattie wasn’t totally sold on Charmander when she first met him. The flea-bitten gray gelding was already 18 when she tried him in Ocala in 2016...
The 13-week Traverse City Horse Shows series will run as planned this summer, after show management and government officials reached an agreement on issues...
The U.S. Equestrian Federation this week released a draft of a California hunter/jumper competition calendar that it has spent the past four months revamping...
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,...
Stud fees for scores of sport horse stallions from some of the top studs in Europe are being auctioned online this week to support two organizations...
By now, many people have heard what is happening on the West Coast amid a serious outbreak of EHV-1, but that story feels very different for those of...