How Do You Know When It’s Time for a Change?

Editor’s Note: Board Member Elisabeth Black is a Southern California native living in central Ohio with her husband, horse, and golden retriever. She’s a marketing and design specialist as well as registered Yoga instructor. She has a passion for research and learning that is driven […]

Age and Horses and Me

Editor’s Note: Best Horse Practices Summit presenter Katrin Silva grew up riding dressage in Germany before moving to the United States at age 19 to learn to ride Western. She’s been riding both disciplines for the last 20 years and is a regular guest columnist […]

Summer Goals and Adventures

Summer is for tackling projects and dedicating time to making progress with ourselves and our horses. (Okay, winter is good for that, also.) As you may have heard on the Best Horse Practices podcast, we’re curious to hear how your summer is going, what you’re […]

Riding As We Age – 10 Tips

This week, we hear from occasional guest columnist, Lee McLean, a horsewoman and writer in Alberta, Canada. She runs Keystone Equine and has an impressive Facebook following. Here, McLean writes about Riding As We Age. Excellent pointers here! McLean writes: Whether we’re getting older, recovering […]

Getting Tossed, Taking Stock

On first read, I thought Libby Lyman’s comment about “gauging appropriate pressure for each individual horse” was a no brainer. See her Ask the Expert post here. “Doesn’t everyone know that?” I thought. But getting a bloody lip whilst coming off my mule has a […]