Horse Care

Is your horse a rock star? Author Dessa Hockley has the answer in her new book by the same name. By applying the concept of the Myers-Brigg personality test used on humans, she has developed an insightful questionnaire that categorizes horses into 16 different personality types based on answers to a series of 24 questions [...]

When I was a child, I read Marguerite Henry’s fabulous book, White Stallion of Lipizza, which tells the tale of a baker’s son who wants to become a rider at Vienna’s famous Spanish Riding School, training the famous white Lipizzan stallions. Against many odds, he succeeds.
That was a time when the dream didn’t include girls. Breaking with [...]

A horse is believed to have been shot dead in a field in Surrey in an incident described as “wanton animal cruelty”.

Lafe Nichols — who had been chief veterinarian for the commission and its predecessor, the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority, since April 2007 — gave no reason in his letter, spokesman Jim Carroll said.

Reiner Klimke’s victory lap on Ahleric at the 1984 Olympics is the stuff of legends. With apparent ease, he and Ahleric performed 75 consecutive tempi changes as the lapped the arena. All while he rode with one and and waved to the crowd. To make such an accomplishment looks so effortless is remarkable. Which is why it is [...]