Title : Got Joints? Date : Monday, April 11, 2011 Time : 7:30-8:30 p.m. CT (8:30 p.m. ET and 5:30 p.m. PT) If the joints don’t move well, the body doesn’t move well. The ability to flex, extend, and rotate the joints in the horse’s legs and spine sets the parameters for that athlete’s ability. Many things contribute to joint problems such as nutritional imbalances, GI problems, trauma (acute or chronic), genetic pre-disposition, confirmation, poor shoeing/trimming, metabolic disorders, normal...

Aurora, OH - Freedom Health, LLC, makers of SUCCEED® Digestive Conditioning Program®, has announced the introduction of a new awareness campaign: "Crusade Against Equine Colic"™. As a leading equine health product, SUCCEED supports greater education and awareness of important digestive health concerns like colic. Knowledge is power. This is particularly important with colic, as it is the number one medical killer of adult domestic horses. That fact has been well-established by veterinary...

Wellington, FL - Equestrian Sport Productions is offering several more mounted clinics throughout the end of the circuit, as a part of the Ride and Learn educational series, a new component of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) in 2011. All clinics are held on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in the International Arena (unless noted otherwise). The next clinic will be instructed by international jumper rider, Candice King at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, in the International Arena. The clinic is open to...

Lexington, KY – The American Hanoverian Society (AHS) is pleased to announce that a training symposium entitled “Dressage Through the Levels: Training Level to Grand Prix” conducted by Olympic Bronze Medalist Sue Blinks will be held at the world-class Devonwood Equestrian Centre in Sherwood, OR, on February 5, 2011, in conjunction with the Society’s Annual Membership Meeting. The informative event will demonstrate Hanoverians at each level of dressage while Blinks shares tips, targeted goals...

Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) announced today that the following horse/rider combinations will be participating in the USEF Selection Trials for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games Dressage Team, held at the Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Dressage Festival of Champions. This class will be held as one of five National Dressage Championships in Gladstone, NJ over two weekends of competition. The competition runs August 6-8 and August 13-15, 2010. The...

Are you tempted to cut your grass, then rake it into soft, fragrant, tasty piles of clippings for your horse to nibble? According to equine nutrition expert Dr. Juliet Getty, this should be the last thing you encourage your horse to eat. It has to do with that extra step: raking. Grass clippings that stay on the pasture after mowing, where they can dry in small amounts, are generally not a problem. But never gather them into piles to feed them to your horse. It’s partly because clippings are...

The next opportunity to learn from some of the best riders and instructors in the world of hunters and jumpers will come April 19-20 in Washington and April 19-21 in Connecticut during the SmartPak/United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) Trainer Symposiums. Registration for the symposiums has been open since January 1. The symposiums offer attendees a rare opportunity to participate in the practical training sessions and round table discussions with top professionals in the industry....

February 16-18 marks the first opportunity of 2010 to participate in the SmartPak/United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) Trainers Symposiums. The symposiums offer practical training sessions and round table discussions with top industry professionals. This first event kicks off with John French as the hunter clinician and George Morri, as the equitation and jumper clinician at HITS Desert Horse Park in Thermal, CA. The Symposiums are offered to everyone—not just trainers....

Have you noticed that traffic signals are looking a little different these days? What you’re seeing is the effort to save money and energy. Cities across the United States are replacing their incandescent traffic lights with energy-efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs). While these new lights provide brighter lights that last much longer and save a lot of energy, it’s also becoming evident that they have a hazardous downside. The bulbs burn so coolly that snow and ice don’t melt. Rather they...

The 2010 EQUUS Foundation/United States Equestrian Federation Youth Convention will take place on Saturday, January 16, 2010, at the Marriott Downtown in Louisville, KY. As in prior years, this will be held in conjunction with the USEF Annual Meeting, allowing our youth the valuable experiences of watching and learning from some of the great traditions of Annual Meeting. This year we are pleased to welcome the EQUUS Foundation as our title sponsor, a charity that raises public awareness of the...