Caring For Your Horse

Practical guidance on daily horse care and management responsibilities. Topics include grooming, feeding, stable routines, health monitoring and preventive veterinary care.

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

Regular grooming keeps your horse healthy and looking great with the right brushes and techniques.

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 basic care, regular parasite control, and good stable practices.

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

Building a real bond with your horse takes daily time, attention and genuine care to create a lasting friendship.

Veterinary Care

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