For horse owners, the winter months bring icy walkways, frozen buckets, frostbitten fingers and snow drifts to wade through on the daily trek to the barn.

Here are seven attainable goals you can set this season:

1. Focus on your ride, not the ribbons.

Unless you are competing in a sport against the clock such as show jumping, you will find that most horse sports are …

In the horse world it often seems that these spring showers also bring the dreaded fetlock deep mud that mires our once grass-filled paddocks.