For most people, lunging is a very important tool for working with a horse. We lunge our horses for various reasons but primarily to get the freshness off the horse.

By Jess Hallas-Kilcoyne - Facilities such as Caledon Equestrian Park, in Palgrave, Ontario, and Spruce Meadows, in Calgary, Alberta, provide equestrian athletes with a venue to develop and showcase their talents, and horse fans with entertainment. But what do these sport competition sites contribute to the non-equine community?

By Lindsay Grice - I approach training on the basis of behavioural science which can help explain how horses think and learn. We’ll never know what it’s like to be a horse, but there is a wealth of evidence pointing to the way horses are wired...and they’re not wired like humans!

Japan’s Yoshiaki Oiwa and Noonday de Conde produced a sensational test to take the individual lead in the closing stages of Eventing dressage at the London 2012 Olympic Games in Greenwich Park (GBR) today. The quiet-spoken 36-year-old admitted afterwards that he could hardly believe it. “I’m a bit shocked”, he said at the post-competition press conference.

By Jess Hallas-Kilcoyne - We are pleased to present the winners of our third annual Readers’ Choice Awards, honouring remarkable horses and horse people for their achievements and contributions to Canada’s horse industry. Each of our 2012 Readers’ Choice Award winners is truly remarkable and we are grateful for the opportunity to recognize them. Our only regret is that, out of the hundreds of nominated individuals, only ten can be named as winners. Here are a few of our runners-up whom we feel are deserving of honourable mention.

By Kentucky Equine Research - Horses, like humans, come in a variety of body shapes. Some breeds and individuals tend to be ”easy keepers,” naturally assuming a well-rounded shape. Others always seem to look a bit thin and ribby, no matter how they are managed. Why can't some horses seem to gain and hold their weight? There is often more than one reason.

While I'll Have Another may not have been named 2012 Triple Crown Champion, there's no denying that his genes have "win" all over them. But where did this "speed gene" come from? According to a press release from the University College Dublin, in Ireland, “Scientists have traced the origin of the ‘speed gene’ in Thoroughbred racehorses back to a single British mare that lived in the United Kingdom around 300 years ago, according to findings published in the scientific journal Nature Communications.”

For the last 20 years, the endangered Przewalski’s horse, also known as the Asian wild horse or takhi, has been re-introduced to its ancestral ranges in the Gobi Mongolian steppe, or grasslands, in an immensely successful conservation program. For millennia, the Przewalski’s horse ranged throughout the grassland steppe from Eastern Europe through Central Asia to China.

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