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What’s the difference between a performance horse and a race car? Well, aside from the obvious fact that one is living, and one is not, when you look at both through a conceptual lens, you’d see that they are actually quite similar. After all, there’s a reason race cars are gauged in horsepower.But now let’s take a look under the hood. Race cars are powered by engines and performance horses are p …

Have you ever tried drinking a thick smoothie through a narrow straw? It’s not easy. In fact, you’d probably have just as much luck trying to drink liquid concrete. However, trade in that skinny straw for one with a wider diameter and suddenly you’ve got a terrible case of brain freeze.Why exactly does this occur? How is it that even the smallest changes to a straw’s diameter (or any cylin …

By the time a horse touches hooves to the finish line after a five-furlong race, gone a sixth of the way around a 3-star cross-country course, or made it to the end of a Grand Prix show jumping round, he will have cycled approximately 475 gallons of air into and out of his lungs. To help visualize this: Imagine the average American bathtub “filled it with air” and then added five more tubs next to …

As a horse owner, you have a very important role to fill. Not only are you tasked with the responsibility of providing food, water and shelter for your horse, but you are also their personal caretaker – you clean up after them and make sure they are groomed, loved, well-conditioned, and everything in between. If you think about it, the dynamic between you and your horse isn’t too different than th …