Outside many a barn and at every horse show, there is a Polymer Palace. Depending on where you’re from, they may be known as a Best Seat in the House, Drop Zone, Johnny on the Spot, Spiffy Biffy, Heeeere’s Johnny, …
There is a longstanding unofficial rule of thumb that a horse should bear no more than 20 per cent of its body weight, including rider and equipment.
On a chilly but sunny day in early May, Liz Brown headed out to Lee Jackson's farm in St. Anns, Ontario to try barrel racing.
This article features several veterans and highlights how horses gave them and countless other contemporary Canadian veterans a voice.
A correct spin is essentially a horse walking his forehand around his haunches – body parts aligned fairly straight and a slight bend.
An exercise I like to use to for improving focus, straightness and rating speed is called Post to Post. Compared to some of the other exercises in this series, it may seem fairly simple. It offers many benefits for both …
Equine metabolic syndrome is a disorder of the endocrine system concerning to horse owners because of its association with recurrent or chronic laminitis.
Bare spots in a pasture are normal to a degree, but too many large bare areas could be a sign that your pasture may be in need of reseeding.
If you don’t do a hay analysis, the hay quality could be off and your horse’s diet could be lacking something very important.
Horses lose fluids through sweat three times faster than humans, and they lose electrolytes 10 times faster, read this article to learn more.
Barging behaviour is sometimes about space – whoever owns the space and can move another horse out of that space determines the herd hierarchy.
Horses are generally good at detecting when water sources are not safe, but not always, so it is important to know some basics about water quality.
Originally a $2,000 yearling purchase in 2007 by Doug Clyde, Monsterinthecloset raced 50 times through 2013 for three different owners.
Trained by Barb Minshall, Stacked Deck entered his 2015 campaign with one stakes win, a nose score in the 2014 edition of the Charlie Barley Stakes, to his credit.
Sent to post at odds of 20-1 in his 2015 debut, …
In a broad-ranging interview recently with Canadian Thoroughbred, Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) CEO Jim Lawson acknowledged “broader consultation — whether it was by the HBPA, Woodbine, or both together… may have been helpful” before changes were made to the Ontario …
