TO QUOTE THE Glen Campbell song, “You Got to Try a Little Kindness” when training an unbroken or wild horse to willingly accept human touch and then respond to asked tasks. “The first step in all ...

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A two-time world champion in showing American Saddlebreds as a youth, Allison Vermeer VanWyngarden ’03 believed her horse training days were over as an adult. “I always loved horses. I worked in the ...

I think this video just goes to show how much progress can be made when you keep the environment calm and relaxed. Horses read off our body language so much. If we go into a a situation feeling tense ...

Purdue University is partnering with Equitation Science International, a leading international source of equitation science information and education, to offer a distinctive online certificate for ...

The Kentucky Horse Council's three-day Large Animal Emergency Rescue training is slated to return to the Kentucky Horse Park on September 19 through 21, 2025. This three-day training is designed to ...

How does predominantly single-direction training, as seen with most Thoroughbred racehorses, affect a horse's hoof morphology ...

Scott Banga moves around Paris with ease, his sure hands connecting and fastening leather straps on the Percheron draft horse’s broad body as he talks. “It’s beauty. It’s grace. It’s Miss United ...

Exercise rider Yoehannie Acoy sits atop Addressable Market, the first horse to go out for season as the Oklahoma Training track opens for the season Thursday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The horse is ...