Tired of button braids? Here’s another look!

Lattice braids

I love this look! I’ve never had a horse that a long mane but it almost makes me want to grow Freedom’s so I can try it. How do you think it would look in the hunt field? Probably not such a good idea as I’d imagine the whole braid would start to fly up […]

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Is Scribbles the oldest pony in England?

Scribbles is going for the World record. His owners believe him to be 51 years old, and that potentially makes him the oldest living pony in England and maybe even in the world Until 2002 Scribbles had worked at Strawberry Gardens Riding School in Camborne for 24 years after owner Jill Power paid £125 for […]

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Tips for buying a horse at the track: A vet’s perspective

Going to the racetrack to by an Off-The-Track Thoroughbred (OTTB) can be daunting. It’s busy, it’s crowded, you can’t ride the horse and trainers want you to make a decision after they’ve walked or trotted it up and down the shed row. You generally don’t get the chance to see the horse going under saddle […]

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15 older Pryor Mountain Horses given new home in mountains.

There’s some good news for the Pryor Mountain horses. Fifteen of the older horses have been resettled on a 3000-acre ranch at the foot of the range. Members of the Cloud Foundation, an organization that worked to save the herd, worked hard to ensure that all of the 57 horses removed from the herd were […]

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Another happy ending for Eddie.

Eddie, a horse in Wyoming, survived a 3.3-mile swim through an irrigation tunnel after being sucked into the intake valve. Eddie was found — relatively unscathed — two days after disappearing under water. The 9-year old Arabian gelding was being ridden along the Shoshone river when he and his 16-year old rider, Joshua Black, and […]

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The battle rages on for the largest horse.

Looking at this photo of Poe standing next to his owner, it’s easy to imagine that he’s the tallest horse in the world. Standing at 20.2 hands (6’10”), he towers over his diminutive owner Shereen Thompson, who is only 5’3″. With his head up, he is about 10′ tall. Thompson, who lives in Canada, found […]

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