Horizon Structures Series Presents: Your Horse Deserves a Room With A View
By Nikki Alvin Smith, November 23, 2021
The addition of a window to each stall in a horse barn offers your equine partner a room with a view. The benefits of including windows in horse barn design go beyond keeping your horse mentally occupied with the opportunity to see what is going on outside the barn. Windows provide natural light that can …
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A Look Back at the 2021 Washington International Horse Show Presented by MARS Equestrian™
By Linda Macklin, November 23, 2021
The 63rd edition of the Washington International Horse Show presented by MARS Equestrian™ is officially a wrap and showcased the best of the best in show jumping, hunter, and equitation competition. Thank you to the sponsors, exhibitors, grooms, horses, staff, and fans for another successful year. Daily Updates From This Year’s Show Stewart, Sexton, and …
Certified Horsemanship Association Celebrates School Horses
By Tammi Gainer, November 23, 2021
We all started out learning how to ride on a certain horse. If our family did not own horses, it was very likely that a wonderful school horse at a camp or lesson barn program taught us how to ride. So it is only fitting that an outstanding horse be honored as the Certified Horsemanship …
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Corro, The One Source for All Things Horse, Celebrates Holiday Season by Giving Back
By Riesa Lakin, November 23, 2021
Gift-A-Gift Initiative to Benefit Seven Equine and Therapeutic Riding Charities Corro (corroshop.com), the one source for all things horse, has launched its Holiday Give-A-Gift, an initiative to celebrate non-profit Equine and Therapeutic Riding organizations, and encourage the equestrian community to learn more about the incredible work they do. Corro invites horse lovers everywhere to give …
Teton Ridge Announces the Acquisition of Better Barrel Races as Part of Its Growing Focus on Western Sports
By Katie Harvey, November 23, 2021
Purchase Of Barrel Racing Association Intends to Open The Door To Larger Events, Broader Audiences And Greater Exposure For Popular Sport Barrel racers across the western sports industry scored a major victory today with the announcement that Better Barrel Races has been acquired by Teton Ridge, the new and rapidly growing Western culture brand founded …
Kimes Ranch Brings Nashville to Vegas!
By Lindsay Perraton, November 22, 2021
Join us for Nashville Unplugged at Mandalay Bay during the 2021 NFR Kimes Ranch along with Nashville Unplugged is bringing rodeo fans “the story behind the song” during this year’s Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada. As the longest-running songwriter series outside of Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville Unplugged has become the place to go …
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NSC, Fructans, and EMS — Again
By Nancy Collins, November 22, 2021
Eleanor M. Kellon, VMD It’s like the movie Groundhog Day. The same incorrect information keeps surfacing again and again. Self-proclaimed experts on forage for horses, and forage carbohydrate fractions, state that Nonstructural Carbohydrates (NSC) is the hay fraction to be concerned about with when dealing with Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS). Not so. NSC = nonstructural …
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Proof Weak Behind Promotion of Chromium for Horses with Metabolic Syndrome
By Nancy Collins, November 22, 2021
Eleanor M. Kellon, VMD A major feed company has decided to promote chromium for horses with metabolic syndrome. The first mention of a chromium connection to glucose metabolism in humans was back in the 1950s. A chromium-containing “glucose tolerance factor”, which helped cells take up glucose, was discovered later.,, Fast forward to the early 2000s …
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Off-Track Thoroughbred Magazine Makes a Great Gift!
By Kristen Bentley, November 22, 2021
Shopping for your trainer, students, clients, boarders or any Thoroughbred lover in your life? A print or digital gift subscription to Off-Track Thoroughbred Magazine comes in everyone’s size! The only publication dedicated to Thoroughbreds in equestrian sports, Off-Track Thoroughbred Magazine is packed with information and news to educate readers in all disciplines. Shop gift subscriptions …
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A Guide to Blanketing Horses
By Aimee Robinson, November 22, 2021
Selecting blankets and sheets, sizing, storing, cleaning tips and more There is much to consider when selecting a blanket for your horse, including the horse’s age, body condition and coat thickness, to name only a few aspects. Additionally, horses across the country experience a variety of climates, weather conditions and stabling environments. Luckily, just as …
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Bullish Market Fuels Dynamic Results at Keeneland November Sale
By Amy Owens, November 22, 2021
Keeneland debut winner Strava sells for $825,000 to top horses of racing age segment Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale, the most important auction of its kind in the world, closed Friday with gross sales of $203 million, the highest for the sale since 2016, and a record median of $37,000 to signal a resumption of …
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ECIR Group Inc. 2021 NO Laminitis! Conference Recorded Videos Now Available
By Nancy Collins, November 19, 2021
“I am well over half way with watching everything but I take quite a bit of time as I keep pausing to make notes. To be able to get such first-hand information from the real experts has been amazing and it is knowledge that I will carry with me for the rest of my life …
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Goodnight is Back on the Road Again!
By Julie Goodnight, November 19, 2021
As the world opens to travel and large events, Julie Goodnight is thrilled to be hitting the road once again. Goodnight’s 2022 schedule is packed with horsemanship clinics and horse expos nationwide, as well as riding vacations in Colorado and Ireland. (JulieGoodnight.com/Events) “After nearly two years with no travel to clinics or expos, I am …
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By Nikki Alvin-Smith, November 19, 2021
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AAEP Publishes Contagious Equine Metritis Guidelines
By Sally Baker, November 18, 2021
Comprehensive guidelines to assist veterinarians with identification, diagnosis and control of Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM), a non-systemic venereal disease of equines that causes short-term infertility in mares and rare abortion, are now available on the AAEP’s website. Six outbreaks of CEM have occurred in the U.S. in the past 15 years, including a significant outbreak in 2008-2010 …
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