TO QUOTE THE Glen Campbell song, “You Got to Try a Little Kindness” when training an unbroken or wild horse to willingly accept human touch and then respond to asked tasks. “The first step in all ...

Ponying is the term for leading one horse from another. The pony horse is the one you are riding; the ponied horse is the one ...

Wood fences zig-zagging across acres of pastures and tractors moving big, round hay bales toward small barns are part of a rustic landscape just a few miles north of Mankato’s downtown. Quarter horses ...

Training horses and riders makes me aware of the many layers in teaching and coaching—layers that everyone recognizes after the fact but which we don’t consider consciously often enough. These layers ...

Willow, left, and Summer are two of the horses at Glen Oaks Equestrian Center in Glen Carbon. GLEN CARBON — Cailin Messer can’t imagine life without horses. The 2010 Edwardsville High School graduate ...