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Cover Story: The Future of Our Farms

Our Farms
If we don’t preserve our equestrian properties there might not be anywhere to ride in the future.

Real Estate, Development, and the Fight for Our Farms By Taryn King We’re all feeling it— the rising costs of hay, finding and keeping good help, and boarding barns shuttering their doors. Our industry is in flux and we’re feeling the pressure. From inflation and the rising cost of labor …

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Media Barn: Book Review – Ultimate Exercise Routines for Riders

Exercise

Fitness that Fits a Horse-Crazy Lifestyle By Laura Crump Anderson Riders often neglect their own needs to ensure their horses’ are met. Countless dollars go toward massages, chiropractic work, and other therapies that keep our equines performing their best. We carefully schedule their training programs to achieve peak fitness at …

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New & Noteworthy: The Liberty Festival is Back and Better than Ever, October 13-15, 2023, in Lexington, KY

Liberty Festival

Following the groundbreaking success in 2022, the International Liberty Horse Association is proud to announce the return of the highly anticipated Liberty Festival for 2023! This exciting event celebrates the incredible bond between horse and human through the art of liberty horsemanship. The festival will take place at the world-class …

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Trainer’s Corner: My Journey with “Journey” the Mustang – Part 2

Journey
Journey on Arrival. Photo Courtesy Matt Livengood

From BLM Holding to Accepting a Saddle In my first article in this series, I introduced you to Journey, my 4-year-old (formerly) wild mustang. I chose him by looking through photos of available mustangs for a 90-day mustang competition where competitors gentle and then ride wild horses. I brought Journey …

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New & Noteworthy: Five Grants Awarded Annually from The Dressage Foundation’s Lynn Palm Western Dressage Fund

Lynn Palm Western Dressage Fund
Lynn Palm at World Cup. Photo Credit Nancy Jaffer

Lynn Palm and The Dressage Foundation (TDF) are pleased to announce that five grants for Western dressage riders will be awarded from TDF’s Lynn Palm Western Dressage Fund this year. This Fund was established in 2019 to initially provide grants for Western dressage educational events and was expanded in 2021 …

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From My Saddle: In Person

Recent Travel Brings Joy in Seeing Everyone at the Expos I hadn’t attended an expo since March 2020 when I visited the Washington State Horse Expo for our sister publication, The Northwest Horse Source (NWHS). We were living in Washington and soon after Covid hit, the remaining expos were canceled. …

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Equine Wellness: Hydrolyzable Carbohydrates and the Metabolic Horse

Hydrolyzable Carbohydrates
Photo Courtesy Kim Roe

By Eleanor M Kellon, VMD and Kathleen M. Gustafson, PhD The only carbohydrate fractions that matter are those that increase insulin. Nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC), non-fiber carbohydrates (NFC), ethanol soluble carbohydrates (ESC), water soluble carbohydrates (WSC)—it all really comes down to hydrolyzable carbohydrates for metabolically challenged horses.  Hydrolyzable carbohydrates (HC) are …

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