Horse Insights

The famous Spanish Riding School is accepting women.  Finally.
The article I found today states, “…the first women to be accepted to Vienna’s elite, internationally renowned and hitherto male-dominated Spanish Riding School – a 481-year-old institution as famous and peculiar to this Alpine nation as Mozart…”

The article goes on to describe what it took for the [...]

Barefoot or shod has always been an issue with my horses.  One horse absolutely needs shoes while another horse could benefit from bare hoof trimming.  Or so my wife thinks.
So she turned to the internet for more information on barefoot or shod, and showed me this article shortly after I had our farrier out for [...]