Sometimes, the only thing you can do to keep from crying is laugh. And maybe purchase a lottery ticket. Sarahrose Brannan airs her financial grievances. (more…)
#YOUR TURN
Your Turn: Les chevaux et moi
Horse Nation contributor Caitrin O’Shea recounts the story of how she got college credit for being a horse bum in France, working as a training assistant for a three-star event rider. (more…)
Your Turn: Adventures in walk/trot equitation
After a 20-year hiatus from the horse world, Theresa Nielsen and her invisible gremlin-fearing thoroughbred prepare to take on the world (or at least a bunch of kids) at a local schooling show. (more…)
Hey, I’m wintering in Florida! Not
But for a few hours, at least, Horse Nation contributor Jennifer Ferrell got to see how the other, more suntanned half lives. (more…)
Your Turn: Confessions of an old-school, traditionalist snob
Lisi Edwards is a fuddy-dud when it comes to equestrian attire, and she’ll tell you so herself. But even snobs have their weaknesses. (more…)
Your Turn: Hello, Boyd
Two years ago, western rider Maegan Gossett bought herself a jumping horse, and she’s been trying to figure out what to do with it ever since. Recently, she discovered a new source of inspiration: Boyd Martin. (Not the real Boyd Martin—the one on YouTube.) (more…)
Inside EquiCenter: Part I
Megan Kaiser is a volunteer at EquiCenter, a New York facility that offers therapeutic riding, hippotherapy, vaulting and horsemanship (equine facilitated mental health) sessions. In her first of a two-part series, she takes us on a visit to the center. (more…)
Rolex Fever claims another victim
We just got a warning from the National Center for Disease Control, something about Rolex Fever? It’s supposed to be highly contagious. Latest victim: 16-year-old Emily Kelly. (more…)
A ‘Problem Horse’: Coping with EPSM
ESPM, or Equine Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy, is a metabolic disease that Jody Webb had never even heard of–until her horse was diagnosed with it. (more…)
Your Turn: Why I hate the doctor (or, why I love my vet)
Her horse may or may not agree, but if you ask Caitrin O’Shea, taking a horse to the vet is way less frustrating to taking yourself to the doctor. Even though in theory it should be the other way around. (more…)
Life on the Farm: An antique moment
Horse Nation contributor Rachael Walker writes to us from the frozen Midwest, where she finds a little color and old-fashioned grace in an otherwise grey winter day. (more…)
Your Turn: My horse, the nudist
Megan Kaiser’s horse likes to get naked. Sometimes, he wiggles out of his clothes like Houdini. Other times, he shreds his clothes and drags them through the mud. Megan is not OK with either method. (more…)
Your Turn: ‘It was evening’
There are some moments with horse that are almost too subtle and beautiful for words. HN contributor Rachael Walker manages to capture a quiet moment at the end of the day with her OTTB-turned-eventer. (more…)
More than Matching Jackets: What it takes to be a NCAA Varsity Equestrian Athlete
Maegan Gossett interviews Baylor University student and top intercollegiate rider Andrea Schweiker about being on “the team.” (more…)
Fore! When riding and golf collide
HN Contributor Megan Kaiser discovers she may have much more in common with her golf-obsessed husband than she previously imagined. (more…)
Your Turn: The love story of Victoria and Rascal
When Victoria Smith first met Rascal, a bordering-on-homicidal mustang, he had few redeeming qualities. But Victoria saw straight through his shenanigans. (more…)
Your Turn: 20 questions every horse-show coach should be prepared to answer
HN Contributor Katy Groesbeck tells it like it is.
Your Turn: My horse problem
On paper, Megan Kaiser seems like a pretty normal person: full-time job, husband, house, dog, cat, two kids. But secretly, she struggles with a serious addiction that she just can’t kick. (more…)
Your Turn: It’s a sister thing
Growing up, horses were the glue that bound Melissa Burdette and her sister together. Life eventually cast them in opposite directions, but their shared love for horses still keeps them connected from afar. (more…)
Your Turn: Was that a pony for me?
A routine morning walk to the mailbox with the dog turns into a hunt for a mystery horse. Lisa Morrison follows the trail of hoof prints until she finds her answer. (more…)
Your Turn: This one time in Africa…
That Rebecca Berry, she’s so full of crazy Africa stories. Like this one, in which 33 horses run off into the lion-infested bush and she has to go find them. (more…)
Your Turn: You want me to jump WHATTT??
Have you ever wondered why jumps are named the way they are? Sarahrose Brannan, an eventing junkie from New Jersey, takes a moment to speculate. (more…)
Graded Stakes: Retraining racehorses for college credit
Kait Schultz and Tesla Parker are university students with a big idea: buying, retraining and selling ex-racers… for a grade. Their project is called “‘The Thoroughbred Chronicles.” (more…)
Your Turn: Help, I’m a horse-crazy little girl trapped in a grown-up body
On her 28th birthday, HN contributor Biz Stamm reflects on growing older but not wiser. (more…)
True Confessions: ‘I was having a great honeymoon… until I started missing my horse’
When newlywed bliss wore off and “the itch” started taking hold, Amanda Ronan dragged her new hubby to a trail-riding stable–hilarity ensues. (more…)