Practical Horseman

It presents step by-step training programs and showing advice from recognized experts in hunters, jumpers, equitation, dressage, and eventing, along with money- and time-saving ideas on health care and stable management.

Practical Horseman

Strategies for Confidence

Lower-Leg Adjustments and More Generous Releases

The Connection Between the Rider’s and Horse’s Backs • Help your horse to find the balance into a more open frame.

A LOOK BACK • Riders at the Paris Games share their thoughts on the competition.

CREATING CONFIDENCE • Top U.S. hunter rider and trainer Geoffrey Hesslink talks about overcoming competition nerves and how he’s paying that forward to his students and horses.

4 Exercises for a WINNING EQUITATION ROUND • Stacia Klein Madden shares how she gets her students ready for big competitions.

UNDERSTANDING DEGENERATIVE SUSPENSORY LIGAMENT DESMITIS • Learn how to manage this progressive, degenerative condition.

The Role of Genetics

One Owner’s Experience

Re-Rescued: Aslan’s Story • One special gelding learns about three different types of love during his rescue journey.

Hoof Abscesses • How to identify and manage a common condition that often seems to appear out of nowhere

PRACTICAL HORSEMAN'S TACK ROOM

In riding, the horse moves the rider’s pelvis forward, and the rider needs to balance the upper body into this motion. To do this …