Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
Pat 
Last weekend I went out for drinks with a bunch of women with whom I was attending a show. After a couple of rounds, the conversation inevitably steered to the place it does when a group of girls go out drinking. Someone asked the table if they thought it was true that Equestrians are better …
As much as we might like to be able to, we can’t communicate verbally with our horses. We can’t ask them how they’re feeling or what they’d like to do—indeed, some of us often have trouble picking up on the cues of other humans! When it comes to owning a horse, then, you’re going to …
A horse has two eyes. Horses’ eyes are among the largest of all land mammals, and they have fantastic vision by many metrics as a result of this. Horses can see better in the dark than we can, they can distinguish fine detail and have a 350-degree range of vision. So, horses may only have …
As a young person taking riding lessons for the first time, I clearly recall my horse moving his mouth and slobbering his tongue around after I put on his bridle and inserted the bit. I couldn’t help but wondering, how does the bit make him feel? Does the irritation increase when I’m riding him and …
I was out at the races with my son the other day, and he got asking about whether we could own a racehorse. We have a few horses on our homestead, but they are just companions, really—we don’t even ride them on trails, really. But he was really into the idea of owning a racehorse, …