Grooming for Shows - If you want to be a top contender, you've got to look like one. Here's
what you can do to make the judges stop and take a second look! Read More...pop (Added: 20-Jul-2000 Hits: 4889 Rating: 6.94 Votes: 40) Rate It
Taking Photos of Horses - This article teaches you the basics of taking photos of your horse. First of all, you need a decent camera, several rolls of film, three people and some grain or carrots.
You need to have one person to hold the horse, one to take the pictures and one person to hold the goodies. Read More...pop (Added: 28-Jul-2000 Hits: 3877 Rating: 8.69 Votes: 16) Rate It
Bathing Accessories - There is a plethora of products and accessories to keep your horse clean Read More... (Added: 20-Jul-2000 Hits: 1038 Rating: 3.25 Votes: 8) Rate It
Clipping Your Show Horse - Find out how much you need to clip to get your horse show-ring ready. Read More... (Added: 20-Jul-2000 Hits: 2260 Rating: 8.25 Votes: 12) Rate It
CLIPPING! - Robyn Brown is one of Victoria's consistently most successful eventing trainers and riders, but she is also keenly in demand at that time of the year when trim taut athletes start to look like hairy Yaks - the time of the year, when you start to think about clipping. Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 1943 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 9) Rate It
Daily Care - Grooming your horse on a regular basis will keep you in touch with his
health as well as keeping him clean.
Whether your horse is a trail expert or show stopper, ridden daily or retired, stalled or
turned out, your horse needs daily grooming to help maintain good health. Read More... (Added: 20-Jul-2000 Hits: 1678 Rating: 5.58 Votes: 12) Rate It
Grooming Procedures - An excerpt from the book, "Professional Grooming & Care of the Racehorse" by TA Landers. Learn to pamper your horse like the finest Thoroughbred! A sleek horse is one sign of a good groom. But grooming does more than just make the horse look good. Brushing stimulates circulation in the skin and muscles, which makes the horse feel good. Good grooming also helps prevent saddle sores--in fact there is no excuse for the person who allows a horse to get a saddle sore because of a dirty hair coat, saddle cloth, or girth. Read More... (Added: 15-Jan-2001 Hits: 1639 Rating: 8.46 Votes: 13) Rate It
Grooming Tools - Want to keep your horse looking and feeling good? Start with the proper
equipment. Read More... (Added: 20-Jul-2000 Hits: 1306 Rating: 8.32 Votes: 12) Rate It
Horse Grooming - When grooming a horse, you should always start at the top of his neck and work your way to his rear, then switch sides and repeat. Read More... (Added: 24-Apr-2001 Hits: 1121 Rating: 9.00 Votes: 5) Rate It
Lower Head for Bridling/Clipping - Sometimes the simplest thing, like bridling becomes a hassle when our horse doesn't cooperate. Or maybe there is a way to just make things easier. Wouldn't it be nice if our horse just put her head where we wanted it, when we wanted it there. Well, we can have this with our horse. This is one of those things that will make life easier with just a very small investment of our time. Read More... (Added: 29-Dec-2000 Hits: 1038 Rating: 7.40 Votes: 5) Rate It
Pick Up Feet - Ever try to pick up your horses foot only to have him shift his weight directly onto the foot that you are trying to pick up? Well you can very easily teach him to pick up his foot and hand it to you without painful techniques like squeezing his tendons. This is how. Read More... (Added: 29-Dec-2000 Hits: 1054 Rating: 7.17 Votes: 12) Rate It
Rain Rot / Rain Scald - What is Rain Rot? What does it look like? How is it treated? Find out how to get rid of rain rot on your horse's skin here... Read More... (Added: 2-Dec-2000 Hits: 1454 Rating: 9.27 Votes: 11) Rate It
Showmanship - To train your horse to follow you, his dance partner, he must be able to
read and follow your movements clearly. You must have a different
body position for every maneuver that you wish your horse to perform. Each body positon must be clear
and distinct from another and you must move smoothly from one postition to the other giving your horse
ample time to intrepret your movements. Read More... (Added: 19-Jul-2000 Hits: 1106 Rating: 4.00 Votes: 8) Rate It
The Icing on the Cake - It's the moment that can make you or break you. After all the hard work and effort. You've worked your socks off to get a call, you've really turned it on for the individual show, and now the steward says -
'Unsaddle your horses please...
The moment of truth has come
What do you do? Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 846 Rating: 6.75 Votes: 4) Rate It
The Secret is in the Preperation with Bruce Flood - "So many young people have lovely horses, but they aren't winning," says Bruce Flood. "And they aren't winning because they don't know how to prepare their horses!"
"The preparation starts at home. The horse has to be fit and in the right condition -- that's half the battle won. Lots of horses aren't worked enough, they aren't muscled up and when they get to the show they are fat and flabby. You have to pick the horse's peak condition and keep it there with the right amount of work," Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 1320 Rating: 8.80 Votes: 5) Rate It
The Showman's Secrets - Impressions count right from the very first moment, so you must remain aware of what is going on around you. You can't afford to be sitting in the lineup daydreaming. Keep your mind on the class, watch the conditions in the workout arena, concentrate and plan. It's not just you - keep your horse's attention focussed on you the rider, all the time. Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 1368 Rating: 8.25 Votes: 4) Rate It
Treating Rainrot - You can give your horse his daily baths to treat rainrot and still keep his
hooves healthy. (very short article) Read More... (Added: 20-Jul-2000 Hits: 983 Rating: 5.40 Votes: 5) Rate It
