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Horse Illustrated: The magic of horses

Writer/artist Huxley Greer returns with this instant classic inspired by the unconditional love, life lessons and teamwork values →

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A ‘Problem Horse’: Coping with EPSM

ESPM, or Equine Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy, is a metabolic disease that Jody Webb had never even heard of–until →

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Your Turn: Why I hate the doctor (or, why I love my vet)

Her horse may or may not agree, but if you ask Caitrin O’Shea, taking a horse to the →

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Life on the Farm: An antique moment

Horse Nation contributor Rachael Walker writes to us from the frozen Midwest, where she finds a little color →

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Your Turn: My horse, the nudist

Megan Kaiser’s horse likes to get naked. Sometimes, he wiggles out of his clothes like Houdini. Other times, →

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Your Turn: ‘It was evening’

There are some moments with horse that are almost too subtle and beautiful for words. HN contributor Rachael →

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More than Matching Jackets: What it takes to be a NCAA Varsity Equestrian Athlete

Maegan Gossett interviews Baylor University student and top intercollegiate rider Andrea Schweiker about being on “the team.” →

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Horse Illustrated: Dealing with unwanted advice

HN contributor Huxley Greer knows enough about the horse world to be helpful and enough about Photoshop to →

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Fore! When riding and golf collide

HN Contributor Megan Kaiser discovers she may have much more in common with her golf-obsessed husband than she →

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Your Turn: The love story of Victoria and Rascal

When Victoria Smith first met Rascal, a bordering-on-homicidal mustang, he had few redeeming qualities. But Victoria saw straight →

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Your Turn: 20 questions every horse-show coach should be prepared to answer

HN Contributor Katy Groesbeck tells it like it is. →

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Your Turn: My horse problem

On paper, Megan Kaiser seems like a pretty normal person: full-time job, husband, house, dog, cat, two kids. →

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Your Turn: It’s a sister thing

Growing up, horses were the glue that bound Melissa Burdette and her sister together. Life eventually cast them →

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Your Turn: Was that a pony for me?

A routine morning walk to the mailbox with the dog turns into a hunt for a mystery horse. →

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Your Turn: This one time in Africa…

That Rebecca Berry, she’s so full of crazy Africa stories. Like this one, in which 33 horses run →

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Your Turn: You want me to jump WHATTT??

Have you ever wondered why jumps are named the way they are? Sarahrose Brannan, an eventing junkie from →

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I Hate Bell Boots: A rant

HN Contributor Erin McCabe really doesn’t like bellboots. Like, she is really not a fan. At all. (Except →

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Graded Stakes: Retraining racehorses for college credit

Kait Schultz and Tesla Parker are university students with a big idea: buying, retraining and selling ex-racers… for →

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Your Turn: The difference between horses and microwave dinners

In a world where attention spans run short and instant gratification reigns supreme, Rachael Walker espouses the virtues →

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Your Turn: Help, I’m a horse-crazy little girl trapped in a grown-up body

On her 28th birthday, HN contributor Biz Stamm reflects on growing older but not wiser. →

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True Confessions: ‘I was having a great honeymoon… until I started missing my horse’

When newlywed bliss wore off and “the itch” started taking hold, Amanda Ronan dragged her new hubby to →

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Your Turn: One week in Ocala

HN reader Colleen Hofstetter drags her non-horsey buddies on a whirlwind trip to Florida and subjects them to →

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Your Turn: WHAT are you going to DO with your LIFE?

That’s the big question on the mind of Jessie Widner, a 20-year-old Canadian who is pondering whether or →

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Galloping on a beach IS everything it’s cracked up to be

Let’s all take a moment to live vicariously through HN contributor Amanda Ronan’s account of a beach hunt →

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Your Turn: Life lessons from a chestnut mare

Horse Nation contributor Laura Cox reflects on her 17-year relationship with the pony that taught her to say →

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