Four Hundred Participants Expected at Popular Annual Prize Ride

Hundreds of horses and riders will be converging in Ravensdale, Washington for the 22ndannual Backcountry Horsemen Tahoma Chapter Prize Ride on September 8th. This family oriented event is open to all equestrians and combines a great trail ride with lunch and the opportunity to win $750 in cash prizes as …

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The Trainer/Owner Relationship

Seven Tips to Maintaining a Healthy Partnership by Allison Trimble, Willfully Guided Horsemanship       The relationship between trainer and owner/client is a very important one. Everyone needs help meeting their horsemanship goals and, for many people, the easiest way to do this is by keeping their horse in training …

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Fall Into Something New

Enjoying Your Horse in Every Season by Karen Pickering   Fall is a special time of year. There’s a crispness in the air each morning and beautiful colors begin to emerge all around us. It’s a time to prepare for winter and think about our winter horse housing. Perhaps you’re …

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Principles for Evaluating Hoof Health: Part 2

Identifying Distortion by Mark and Karen Plumlee, Mission Farrier School   Using the principles in this 5-part series will give you the basics for evaluating your horse’s hoof health. It includes: Understanding Foot Falls, Identifying Distortion, Understanding the Sole Plane, What is Breakover?, and Load Sharing. In August we talked about …

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Water Monsters

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Help Your Horse (Safely) Confront His Fear of Water   by Mark Bolender Nearly every equestrian has experienced a horse with water issues. Often I’m told by owners that no matter what they try their horse will refuse to enter water, or else it will leap the smallest stream or …

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Mark Bolender and Rainier Therapeutic Riding Team up for Disabled Veterans

Mark Bolender and Bolender Horse Park are partnering with the nonprofit organization, Rainier Therapeutic Riding (RTR) to raise money and awareness for RTR’s mission: to provide equine assisted therapy to active and retired soldiers suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injuries (TBI), and other physical or emotional challenges. …

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Put Out the Flames of Pain with Equine Colic Relief

Equine Colic Relief contains ingredients found in nature’s medicine cabinet. It ends each colic using 4 processes.These natural processes, work in unison within the body of a horse to put out the fires of pain and end a “normal” or natural occurring fecal and/or fecal & light sand impaction, gas …

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Principles for Evaluating Hoof Health: Part 1

Part 1: Understanding Foot Falls by Mark and Karen Plumlee, Mission Farrier School   This 5-part series, Principles for Evaluating Hoof Health, will give you the basics for evaluating your horse’s hoof health and include, Understanding Foot Falls; Identifying Distortion; Understanding the Sole Plane; What is Breakover; and Load Sharing. …

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A Full Circle Celebration

Returning to My Roots with The Great Alaska Horse Expo by Allison Trimble   I have wanted for years to return to Alaska and bring horsemanship and equine education to the extraordinarily dedicated equestrians that live and ride in my home state. Set against the backdrop of the midnight sun, …

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Controlling Odors in Paddocks

Keep Your Horse’s Environment Healthy and the Neighbors Happy by Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water   In the summer months especially, odors in gravel or sand paddocks can become intense—a real concern if you have neighbors close by. Besides being unpleasant for us, breathing ammonia is unhealthy for horses …

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