Caring For Your Horse

Discover comprehensive guidance on horse care including feeding, grooming, health maintenance, stable management, and ensuring your horse's wellbeing and happiness.

A Healthy Diet for Your Horse

Give your horse the right balance of grass, hay, and supplements to keep them healthy and energetic throughout their life.

Caring for Your Horse: Time

Horse ownership demands daily time for grooming, mucking out, feeding, and riding, but building a real partnership with your horse makes it worthwhile.

Definitions: Stallions, Geldings and Mares

Understand the key differences between stallions, geldings and mares, and why each type suits different riders and purposes.

Good Hoof Care

Neglecting your horse's hooves can cause lameness, so daily cleaning and regular farrier trims are non-negotiable parts of horse care.

Grooming Your Horse

Keep your horse healthy and looking good with a daily grooming routine and the right tools for the job.

How to Care for a Horse

Plan to spend about two hours daily on feeding, grooming, exercise, and health checks to properly care for a horse.

How to Care for a Racehorse

Racehorses need care from trainers, grooms and stable staff who handle everything from feeding to training to medical needs.

Is Racing Horses Humane?

Horse racing's ethics are complicated, but most animal welfare groups haven't banned it, and injury care for racehorses has improved significantly.

Mucking Out

Daily mucking out keeps your horse's stable safe and sanitary, and a good routine makes the job faster and easier.

Preventing Illness in Horses

Keep your horse healthy with regular grooming, parasite control, clean stables and proper vet care.

Shelter for Your Horse

Your horse needs shelter from rain, wind and sun, here's how to choose between stables, blankets and field shelters.

Stable Management

Daily horse care goes beyond riding, covering grooming, feeding, mucking out and everything else that keeps horses healthy and safe.

TLC: What Every Horse Needs

Horses need daily attention, grooming and genuine companionship to thrive and bond with their owners.

Veterinary Care

Horses need regular vet care including vaccinations, worming, and microchipping to stay healthy and prevent serious injuries and illness.