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You’re Invited: Join a Renowned Fashion and Equine Photographer in India

Donna DeMari bought her first camera at the age of eighteen after signing up for a photojournalism course in college. At nineteen she was introduced to Oliviero Toscani, the Italian photographer...
Love vs. Limits: How Do You Establish Boundaries While Still Being Your Horse’s Friend?

Love vs. Limits: How Do You Establish Boundaries While Still Being Your Horse’s Friend?

I think it is Buck Brannaman who has often likened working with horses to parenthood. And, as a horse person and a mom, I concur it is strikingly similar. Loving...
Give the Horse You Love a DIY Spa Day

Give the Horse You Love a DIY Spa Day

Ah, Valentine’s Day! That Hallmark Holiday we all love to hate and hate to love. But we don’t have to sit around longing for some demonstration of adoration to appear...
Your Brain on Stress: The Rider’s Fight-or-Flight Response

Your Brain on Stress: The Rider’s Fight-or-Flight Response

“We humans like to view ourselves as rational creatures who make reasoned, logical decisions and choices,” says Andrea Waldo in her bestselling book BRAIN TRAINING FOR RIDERS. A former psychotherapist who...
Clowns, Gray Hair, and Ice Cream: Coach Daniel Stewart Gets Honest About Equestrian Athletes…and Everything Else

Clowns, Gray Hair, and Ice Cream: Coach Daniel Stewart Gets Honest About Equestrian Athletes…and Everything Else

Coach Daniel Stewart is an enthusiastic force of positivity that makes you smile even when you’re in the middle of getting your riding butt kicked into gear. His mental and...
Gone Fishing: Denny Emerson Relates Jack Le Goff’s Genius

Gone Fishing: Denny Emerson Relates Jack Le Goff’s Genius

In his bestselling book HOW GOOD RIDERS GET GOOD, famed rider, trainer, and coach Denny Emerson details seven areas of choice each of us face during our evolution as equestrians, and...
Do You Really KNOW Your Horse’s Hooves? Really?

Do You Really KNOW Your Horse’s Hooves? Really?

It’s okay to admit it…we often get by on the bare minimum of knowledge when it comes to hoof care. We all learn the basics of how to tend to...
Small Dogs, Tiny Horses, and Frozen Poop Balls: 24 Hours with Miniature Horse Breeder Kendra Gale

Small Dogs, Tiny Horses, and Frozen Poop Balls: 24 Hours with Miniature Horse Breeder Kendra Gale

Winter is not just coming…for those of us in many parts of North America, it is completely, frigidly, and snowily upon us. Any horse person knows that things just get...
3 Tips for Cold Weather Feeding for Your Horse

3 Tips for Cold Weather Feeding for Your Horse

It’s cold outside (don’t try to deny it!)…even Florida is in a deep freeze, relatively speaking. This means that not only do we need to bundle up, but our horses—especially...
The Best Horse Books of 2017

The Best Horse Books of 2017

Believe it or not, in the TSB offices, shuttered from the frigid air that currently has central Vermonters cornered by a deep freeze, we’re already working on the horse books...
How I Got Horses for Christmas EVERY Year

How I Got Horses for Christmas EVERY Year

My grandmother loved books. My mom loved books. And I, necessarily, learned to love books, too. I read voraciously—everything I could get my hands on—but even my earliest memories of...
6 Ways Top Riders Keep Their Horses Happy, Healthy, and Performing Their Best

6 Ways Top Riders Keep Their Horses Happy, Healthy, and Performing Their Best

They all say this is no secret. They claim it isn’t news. And yet somehow, it seems right to put it out there—again, if that is indeed the case—with the...