Q: When is the best time to do the mobility exercises? before or after a ride? A: As most of the prescribed exercises are to take the...

The hardest thing in training any animal, to change, or encourage a behaviour is the human bias of what we feel about the behaviour. But...

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Dr. Katrina Merkies, researcher and associate professor at the University of Guelph, and her master student Haley Belliveau haver...

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I’m sick of silence on this. I am so so so sick of seeing horses broken both physically, and mentally by breakers/starters/trainers, then...

I’m not so into end of year wrap ups. For me, it feels like closure - and closure of experience isn’t something that sits well with me....