Horse Saddles, Western Saddles, English Saddles

With a growing number of people suffering from obesity, it is not surprising that many riders are questioning their horse’s comfort at carrying their weight. The pressure to slim down is bad enough without worrying about your horse, but when you have an animal’s wellbeing to consider it can be difficult to know what to [...]

Horses often become dead to the aids over time. They are not as responsive and get bored of what they are doing under saddle. Sometimes this can be corrected under saddle, but often a horse becomes hard in the mouth, or otherwise will not listen to a rider. In this situation, it can be useful [...]

As a beginner, you will have likely learned that to use your hands, you need to pull on the reins, and to use your leg, you kick or squeeze the horse. While this is fine for beginners, as you advance in your skills, you will find that you need to use more subtle aids to [...]

What it is and Why Teach your HorseIf you have a young horse that is destined to a life of jumping, or if you are looking to sell a young, unstarted horse, free jumping is an excellent way not only to evaluate your horse’s potential over fences, but also to give him a head start [...]

Owning a horse can be an expensive proposition. Your life long dream of riding whenever you want on your own personal horse has been a reality. Now, unless you were raised around horses, you are probably in for the surprise of your life. Not just where to purchase horse supplies is important, but what you [...]

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. Or so the old saying goes. However, wishes were horses but not horse supplies as well, then the beggars in question would not be riding.To begin with, anyone who wishes to ride a horse, will need horse supplies in the form of tack. Even the roughest rider [...]

If you are thinking of owning a horse, there are several pieces of equipment you will need in order to properly care for and enjoy your horse. Since you will most likely want to ride your horse, you will need an array of items to help make this much easier. The items associated with caring [...]

Whenever the term “Western horse” is used, most people picture a rough-and-tumble rodeo - an event full of color but so full of danger, too, that no youngster would be permitted to enter the regular events. What few people realize is that many small, country horse shows have classes open to Western horses. The wide [...]

 When considering horse agistment the most important thought to keep in mind is the welfare of the horse. Horse agistment varies considerably and can be for just grazing on someone else’s land or include a huge range of related services. Generally the lowest and cheapest level of agistment available is for shared agistment in open paddocks [...]

Sending a horse away for training can be pretty stressful, especially if you don’t know what to send with him. Fortunately, it doesn’t need to be all that bad. With some planning ahead, and smart packing, your horse will soon be off to school, and you can relax and know that he’s all packed.FeedIf your [...]