What shapes a horse owner's training choices? A study in the UK found that age, goals, experience, beliefs and background all play a role.

Ian puts the puzzle pieces together to blend a horse-and-rider’s strengths and weaknesses with the challenges imposed by the course designer.

Shave precious time off a showjumping round with effective rollbacks, which test a rider's ability to maintain a horse's rhythm and balance.

Randy Roy has dealt with bee stings, downpours, ringside coaching, nearly getting blown away, and a hound shadowing a hunter.

Pam Allen-LeBlanc runs one of the only bitless schools in Canada and hopes that more competitions will offer bit-free classes.

Landing off one jump is part of the approach to the next, so use it to rebalance, check your rhythm, and re-establish a quality canter.

The Bronze and Silver show judge talks about first impressions, weighing the errors, and not 'trying to be so fancy.'

Practice these fun and useful training setups to create adjustment options between fences, and an elastic, responsive, and thinking horse.

Before you step into the ring this 2026 show season, review some basic rules to avoid additional faults, or worse, elimination.

These simple tools, applied both on and off the horse, can improve mindfulness, balance, symmetry, and proprioception.