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Microcurrent: Part 1

Improve Your Horse’s Performance and Heal Injuries with this Therapy Tool by Deborah Powell   Microcurrent therapy is an easy-to-use tool that can be incorporated into your horse’s physical maintenance program or be used to speed up injury recovery. Horses frequently come in from the pasture with minor injuries or …

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Cross Training

How to Stay Fit and Inspired by Catherine Madera   Outside of riding horses, I’ve never been very interested in sports. This is why my husband worked extra hard convincing me to join him on a 30-and-over soccer team last June. When the day of our first game rolled around—like, …

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Bulls, Barrels, and the Spirit of Pendleton

The Little Eastern Oregon Town with a Big Western Heart by Catherine Madera     Few places are more appropriate to celebrate the birth of the unlikely nation that became a super power than Pendleton, Oregon. Augmenting its annual mega-rodeo, Pendleton ‘let ‘er buck’ early this year with a special …

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Is Your Hay Fit to Travel?

What You Need to Know about Certified Weed Free Feed by Robert Eversole   If you ride in the National Forests or other public property you’ve most likely heard the terms “weed free feed” or “certified weed free forage.” This type of feed is required or requested in many public …

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Ask Al: Advice from a Master Horseman

Getting to the “Root” of a Problem and the Importance of Collection     Hi Al, I have a horse that is pretty far along in reining disciplines. I’m riding him in a Myler bit with a small port which works very well. My problem is that when he canters …

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The Trainer/Owner Relationship

Seven Tips to Maintaining a Healthy Partnership by Allison Trimble, Willfully Guided Horsemanship       The relationship between trainer and owner/client is a very important one. Everyone needs help meeting their horsemanship goals and, for many people, the easiest way to do this is by keeping their horse in training …

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Fall Into Something New

Enjoying Your Horse in Every Season by Karen Pickering   Fall is a special time of year. There’s a crispness in the air each morning and beautiful colors begin to emerge all around us. It’s a time to prepare for winter and think about our winter horse housing. Perhaps you’re …

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Principles for Evaluating Hoof Health: Part 2

Identifying Distortion by Mark and Karen Plumlee, Mission Farrier School   Using the principles in this 5-part series will give you the basics for evaluating your horse’s hoof health. It includes: Understanding Foot Falls, Identifying Distortion, Understanding the Sole Plane, What is Breakover?, and Load Sharing. In August we talked about …

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Water Monsters

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Help Your Horse (Safely) Confront His Fear of Water   by Mark Bolender Nearly every equestrian has experienced a horse with water issues. Often I’m told by owners that no matter what they try their horse will refuse to enter water, or else it will leap the smallest stream or …

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