Quick Take Western Training emphasizes minimal rein contact and neck reining, relying on seat and balance for long-day ranch work. English training emphasizes steady rein contact to achieve collection ...

For Master Fencer 's first track experience in Kentucky, he joined about a half-dozen other Thoroughbreds on the Keeneland training track April 26 for a leisurely gallop and walk before returning to ...

Willow, left, and Summer are two of the horses at Glen Oaks Equestrian Center in Glen Carbon. GLEN CARBON — Cailin Messer can’t imagine life without horses. The 2010 Edwardsville High School graduate ...

TO QUOTE THE Glen Campbell song, “You Got to Try a Little Kindness” when training an unbroken or wild horse to willingly accept human touch and then respond to asked tasks. “The first step in all ...

Rodney Yost is a fourth generation South Dakota rancher who has been involved with the ranching and horse customs his entire life. He's been on horseback since he was a baby in diapers on his family's ...

Using the Belmont Park training track to prepare for a grade 1 stakes on the grass at Gulfstream Park is not the conventional approach, admits trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. This approach, however, seems to ...

On a balmy morning in mid-July under a tent in the middle of a field in Litchfield, the flies taunting his horses, Jason Spieth is crossing his fingers that rain would stay away so he can teach his ...

Interval training is a really effective way to work your horse all year round. It saves times, burns calories, builds fitness, reduces the risk of injury and adds variety to their exercise. Alongside ...