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What Horses Really See: Color Vision Guide

After 30 years of owning and working with racehorses, barrel horses, and pleasure horses, I’ve seen countless horses labeled as “stubborn” hesitate or refuse familiar training elements they’d handled without issue before. In several cases, the fix wasn’t more training…

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Racehorse Health

What Can a Horse’s Teeth Tell You?

What we can learn about horses from looking at their teeth.

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Horses

Are There Still Wild Horses? Which Ones Are Truly Wild?

Wild horses, and where to find them.

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Horses

What Is Your Horse Trying to Say?

When a horse lets out a noise you haven’t heard before, it’s easy to wonder whether he’s calling for something, feeling uneasy, or trying to tell you something is wrong. Most horse sounds are normal communication, but you need the…

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Horses

Reading Horse Ears: What Every Position Can Tell You

After decades of owning and working around horses, mostly Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses, I’ve learned to watch their ears before stepping into a stall, bringing a feed bucket, tacking up, or asking a young horse for more. They are often…

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Horse Racing

Why Some Racehorses Run Every Few Weeks, and Others Wait Months

Picture of a pony horse leading a racehorse to the starting gates.

How often do horses race? Look through the past performances and you’ll see one horse running back in three weeks while another waits three months. The difference usually comes down to how the horse recovered and when the right race…

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Racehorse Health

Not All Horse Masks Do the Same Job – Here’s How to Pick

Walk into any barn during fly season and you’ll see a horse wearing what looks like a mesh mask over its face. New owners always ask the same question: why do horses wear these? The part that trips people up…

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Horse Racing

You Suspect Your Horse Might Be Lame? Here’s What to Watch For

A lot of horses don’t start with an obvious limp. More often, an owner notices something is just off: a horse feels short on one side, doesn’t want to pick up a lead, comes out stiff, or doesn’t finish a…

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Horse Racing

What Does a Racehorse Trainer Do for the Money?

When I bought my first racehorse in 1994, I had the horse before I had a trainer, and no real idea what a trainer did for the money. If you’re about to put a horse in training, or you keep…

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horse breeding

How Are Racehorses Bred? From Pairing to Foaling

Maybe your mare is coming off the track and you’re thinking about breeding her, or you’ve looked at a pedigree in the program and wondered how those two horses ever got paired. Racehorse breeding starts well before a mare walks…

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