Quick Take Western Training emphasizes minimal rein contact and neck reining, relying on seat and balance for long-day ranch work. English training emphasizes steady rein contact to achieve collection ...

G'Day Mate Ranch's Gary Itzstein has been using Natural Horsemanship "The Aussie Way" to build a bond of mutual trust and respect with the horses he's working with through a natural approach. The ...

Every now and then, an article pops up with a piece of surprising misinformation about horse brains. Recently, I read that horses are not curious. The idea behind this claim was that prey animals ...

Horses have been our companions for thousands of years, but there's much more to these animals than meets the eye. Some of ...

Mojo is a native English breed, Welsh Section D, and he is a fantastic horse. He's around nine, ten years old now, and I've had him since he was about four years old, since he started his working life ...

Willow, left, and Summer are two of the horses at Glen Oaks Equestrian Center in Glen Carbon. GLEN CARBON — Cailin Messer can’t imagine life without horses. The 2010 Edwardsville High School graduate ...