Have you picked one of the most expensive hobbies in the world? Or, rather, did it pick you? Either way, there's no doubt about it: the horse experience doesn't come cheap.When owning or leasing a horse or taking multiple...
It can be difficult to tell one dressage rider from another at a show because everyone tends to wear black coats and white breeches. But I’m pretty sure that I don’t blend in with the others in the warmup...
This morning, Veteran’s Day, I saw a picture on Facebook that honored the 8 million horses that died during World War I. The blurry, black and white image took me back a few years to seeing the play War...
Even at the Kentucky Horse Park, a place that more than one hundred horses of all breeds, types and sizes call home, the Budweiser Clydesdales stand out. The traveling hitch spent some time at the Park during the 2015 CP...
Photos courtesy Mitch Borenstein In 2009, author, horse trainer and attorney Mitch Borenstein met an "unfixable” horse that changed his life and challenged what he knew after 20 years of experience fixing the unfixable. He recently wrote a book, Last...
Time is not always on my side when I head to the barn. On some days, it’s not just time working against me. It feels like the universe wants me to be late for my lesson!
I always try my...
We’re just over a week into the No-Stirrups November Project! How’s it going so far?
I’ve noticed a lot of the comments people are leaving on various NSN posts are along the lines of, "This’ll be easy! I always...
The mother looked on proudly as Harper, her daughter, clutched the lead rope attached to a very fancy looking gray pony named Maxwell. I was there to perform a pre-purchase exam on the pony, a standard exam to try...
Hello and happy Friday, everyone! Here’s what’s been happening in the horse world this week.The U.S. Dressage Finals are taking place here in Lexington, Kentucky this week. You can watch some of the show...
Have you ever rolled your eyes in response to your child's eager cries of, "I want a pony!” Too expensive, you think. It's just a phase, you assume. "Pick something else,” you tell her over and over again.But wait!...
