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Q&A: How Can I Get My Show Nerves Under Control?
Question: “I’m a lifelong rider and have been competing since I was a child. I’ve always struggled with paralyzing nerves on show day — even after decades of competing. It’s so frustrating! I’ve read...
View ArticleQ&A: How Do I Protect My Horse’s Future?
Question: What’s the best way to ensure a safe future for a horse you’ve sold? Armand Leone: It’s an all too common scenario. Breeders and owners lose track of a horse after they sell them, and years...
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Show Ring Report Cards
Reports cards are an easy-to-use method of tracking a child’s progress during the school year. But, they can also be designed to monitor the progress of horse and rider in the show ring. “Report...
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Retiring (and Not Shy)
When horses get older, people often talk about retiring them. And until asked, I never really thought that much about it. I mean, I’ve seen plenty of horses that have been formally retired.* I’ve...
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Working Equitation, the Sport I Didn’t Know I Needed
If you haven’t heard about Working Equitation yet, you will soon. Although relatively new to the United States, it is now the fastest growing equine sport in the nation, attracting riders from all...
View ArticleIs My Horse At Risk for COVID-19?
At the time of writing there have been 1,029 scientific papers published on COVID-19—two papers in 2019 and 1,027 in 2020! This illustrates how acute the emergence of this pandemic has been. I...
View ArticleQ&A: Why Do to the Jumps Look So Much Bigger When I Move Up a Division?
This week on the Under The Saddle with Adam Cromarty podcast, our favorite smooth talking Scot sat down with clinical, sport and exercise psychologist, Phil Johnson to talk mental performance. Here’s...
View ArticleCoronavirus Special: Under the Saddle with Adam Cromarty
With the Coronavirus pandemic dominating headlines and horse shows around the world cancelled for at least the next four weeks, Adam Cromarty sat down with three medical experts to help sort the...
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Fixing Rhythm Problems in the Walk
They say the walk is the easiest gait to ruin, but that doesn’t mean we should avoid schooling it altogether! It can’t only be used for rest breaks for the horse and chat breaks for the rider; it...
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The Confidence Crisis in Equestrian Sport
If you are an equestrian athlete, you know that confidence is your secret weapon. There is no sweeter feeling than knowing that, no matter what the situation or degree of pressure, that you have what...
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Does My Horse Need to Get His Teeth Floated?
I often wonder about the word “need” as it applies to working on horse teeth. Need means: “To require something because it is essential, or very important.” So, it seems that, at this point in time,...
View ArticleThree Things You Can Do to Be Productive When You’re Stuck at Home
Question: I suddenly find myself with time for all the paperwork I’ve been putting off. (Thanks, COVID-19). What documents should I be focusing on to make the most of my downtime? Armand Leone: Great...
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How to Make a Face Mask for Droplet Protection
The past couple of weeks have been confusing for equestrians as we try to shift our minds from “pre-purchase exam” to “personal protective equipment” every time we see PPE. I confess, it took me...
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3 Ways to Improve Your Show Ring Performance from the Comfort of Your Couch
Question: My show season is cancelled indefinitely. What can I do at home now to work on my mental game, so I come out swinging like Beezie Madden circa 2014 WEG when the shows start up again? John...
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Bacteria versus Virus
In my experience, horse owners worry about a lot of things, and especially disease caused by bacteria and viruses—but I don’t think that most horse owners really understand much about them, or the...
View ArticleGymnastics, a Training Pillar at Millar Brooke Farm
Gymnastic exercises are used extensively at Millar Brooke Farm to prepare horses for the competition ring—from young prospects up to Olympic caliber horses. In this article, Jonathon Millar shares...
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Fixing Rhythm Problems in the Walk
They say the walk is the easiest gait to ruin, but that doesn’t mean we should avoid schooling it altogether! It can’t only be used for rest breaks for the horse and chat breaks for the rider; it...
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Problem Solving: Dealing with Horses that Pull on the Lead
We can chalk it up to energy or antics or high spirits or poor manners—whatever it is that might be the “cause,” being pulled around by our four-legged friends is not necessarily fun, and it...
View ArticleQ&A: Should I Let My Horse be Used in a Lesson Program to Offset Board Costs?
Q: When our barn’s lesson program starts back up again after the quarantine, should I let my horse be used in my trainer’s lessons in order to help offset my monthly board costs? He would be perfect...
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Moving Toward Healthier Sport Horses: Lessons Learned from Human Athletes
For the past several years, the High Performance Equine Sports Medicine Group, led by veterinarians Dr. Mark Revenaugh and Dr. Timothy Ober, has been searching for methods to improve the health and...
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