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For well over a century, a summer evening at Hastings Racecourse in East Vancouver meant the bugle, the… Continue reading →

Plenty of people book their first horse riding lessons for adults in their thirties, fifties or later, often after years… Continue reading →

Horse riding safety comes down to three things: a proper equestrian helmet on every ride, habits that make a fall less likely, and a plan for the day one happens anyway. Even careful riders come off. Horses… Continue reading →

Starting a young horse is less a single event than a long run of small lessons, each one built on the last. The old term was "breaking", yet most trainers now avoid it, because the goal… Continue reading →

Good horse care is mostly repetition. The same handful of jobs, done every day and roughly in the same order, keep a horse's gut moving, its feet sound and its skin clear. They also give whoever does them a daily look at the… Continue reading →

Most of the milk, eggs and meat sold in Canada today comes from a handful of highly specialized animals. Heritage livestock breeds are the older types… Continue reading →

Children who come home from a week of horse camp are usually tired, dusty and full of new words: the names of ponies, of brushes, of parts of the saddle they had never… Continue reading →

The English vs Western riding question comes up early for almost every new rider, and in the Lower Mainland both traditions are easy to see. Thunderbird Show Park in Langley… Continue reading →

Langley likes to call itself the Horse Capital of B.C., and anyone looking for horse boarding between Surrey and Chilliwack will find plenty of choice: large show barns with indoor arenas… Continue reading →

A first horse riding lesson rarely looks like the gallop people picture. Most of the hour is… Continue reading →