Every now and then, an article pops up with a piece of surprising misinformation about horse brains. Recently, I read that horses are not curious. The idea behind this claim was that prey animals ...

TO QUOTE THE Glen Campbell song, “You Got to Try a Little Kindness” when training an unbroken or wild horse to willingly accept human touch and then respond to asked tasks. “The first step in all ...

Mojo is a native English breed, Welsh Section D, and he is a fantastic horse. He's around nine, ten years old now, and I've had him since he was about four years old, since he started his working life ...

Many riders suspect that horses training in stressful situations don’t always retain what they’ve learned. But researchers have recently found that the same is true when the stress comes after the ...

Do you ride with a bit? Hold your horses! Okay, now let go. According to a new study by European equitation scientists, horses might prefer to avoid rein tension rather than just get used to it. And ...

Willow, left, and Summer are two of the horses at Glen Oaks Equestrian Center in Glen Carbon. GLEN CARBON — Cailin Messer can’t imagine life without horses. The 2010 Edwardsville High School graduate ...

Interval training is a really effective way to work your horse all year round. It saves times, burns calories, builds fitness ...