Sold My Horse

So I have had a horse since I was 5 years old and my mom had horses before then, so it’s safe to say that there really hasn’t been a day in my life that I haven’t had a horse.  Well, actually I didn’t have a horse for a few weeks a couple of years [...]

Why Horses Paw

Many people have horses who paw and they wonder why their horses do this. The answer is actually quite simple – YOU GIVE THEM ATTENTION FOR IT!  Yes, it’s true.  If your horse is pawing and you tell him to stop – you are actually reinforcing this bad behavior.  It’s like if you tell a [...]

Keeping Your Horse in Shape

As Fall is quickly coming upon us, Winter will be following quickly afterwards and it’s going to leave many horse owners in a position where their horses are not going to get as much exercise as they would like them to get simply due to the weather and poor riding conditions. This means that come [...]

Buying a Horse: Looking at Conformation

Conformation is perhaps the most important aspect to consider when you’re purchasing a horse. If a horse has bad conformation, he is usually going to have some sort of lameness issues or other physical conditions later on down the road that will inhibit its performance. However, there are those poorly conformed horses that do make [...]

Stages of Training Your Horse

A horse’s training begins the day that he is born. Every moment that you spend with a foal will influence how he behaves from that day forward. Because of this, you always want to consider every moment that you spend with a horse, regardless of age, as training. However, a horse’s true education is typically [...]

Best Time to Breed Your Mare

Breeding is an incredibly complicated subject, especially on the mare’s side of things.  We could go into extensive details on hormones and the estrus cycle and this post would basically be a chapter of a book I started writing a long time ago
But, many people are just simply looking for the answer to [...]

5 Ways to Cure a Barnsour Horse

There is nothing worse than a barnsour horse.  You just can’t go anywhere with them and it can even be dangerous for you as a rider if your horse acts particularly bad either leaving or coming back to the barn.  There are a few things that you can do to cure your horse of this [...]

Winterizing Your Mare

If you want to be sure that your mare is able to conceive next year, you will want to take some steps to be sure that your mare is ready to breed next spring. 
Common mare reproductive issues that can occur in your mare include endometritis (uterine inflammation) are caused by uterine infections that can potentially [...]

Horse For Sale: 4 year old Palomino Gelding – SOLD

Peppys Golden Rio

Price: $2,000
AQHA# 4446270

Palomino

Gelding

Foaled: May 17, 2003

Location: Amarillo, Texas

Link to extended pedigree on All Breeds Pedigrees: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/peppys+golden+rio
Rio is a 4 year old green broke gelding. He has Mr San Peppy on his papers and pedigree goes back to Doc Bar, Colonel Freckles, Leo and King. This horse has a lot of great foundation breeding [...]

First Ponies

You just have to love first ponies. They teach you the ropes of riding as well as horse care. They are excellent teachers and often very forgiving ones as well. Pictured is me at 5 years old with my first pony Buttercup. I had her until I was 13 years old and learned a plethora [...]