“Maybe come October, the bay cousins will be stalled next to each other in the Kentucky Horse Park. Maybe, this year will be more about joy and progress than patience and simply going forward to get through. Maybe, just maybe, this year it might just be safe to hope.”
The results of the Detecting Soreness in Horses Consensus Study Report are in. Candace Wade weighs in on the ramifications of this report for Tennessee Walking Horses and the PAST Act. (more…)
“For many women the opportunity to own their own horse as a child or young adult was never more than a dream, hampered by lack of money and/or support from family.” But now they are embarking on horse ownership and pursuing the put-aside passion. (more…)
“Establishing strong communities first takes the desire to do so… and time. It takes patience, good and active listening, and open and willing collaboration with others.” (more…)
Selling horses can be frustrating, entertaining and maddening, but buying horses can be downright frightening. So we at Horse Nation are here to help make things as easy for you as possible. Here is the definitive guide to horse sale ads (all meant in good fun, of course). (more…)
“What exactly is a Ponydad? According to my daughter, a Ponydad is a mix of a joke and a rock. A joke because he doesn’t know anything about ponies and sometimes even is afraid of them, and a rock because he always is there for his kid despite all this.” (more…)
Every horse has something to teach us; my accident-prone mare has made a point to teach me a number of lessons (most of which I was not expecting to learn). (more…)
In this excerpt from her book How Two Minds Meet, Beth Baumert explores how, in order to attain optimal performance, we have to learn to engage the horse’s mind as well as his body.
“Many teens do not have a realistic sense that we all are a work in progress. We’re all perpetual students — even the elite among us. Challenges, trial and error, mistakes, failures — they are all part of our ongoing development. ” (more…)
You asked, SmartPak answered! In their never-ending quest to keep SmartPak fans well informed and their horses healthy, SmartPaker Dan and Dr. Lydia Gray address the most commonly asked questions about CBD for horses. (more…)
