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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 …

For many trainers and riders, behavioral issues in performance horses can make the training process feel like a frustrating chore. There’s nothing more irritating than when a horse decides to act like a rebellious teenager and make everything as difficult as possible. But when a horse doesn’t behave the way we want them to, we often tend to point fingers. We blame the horse, jumping to the co …

Across all sports, both contact and non-contact, elite athletes of all shapes and sizes are bound to run into performance related issues and complications. Be it on the practice field or the playing field, athletes at the highest levels of performance are particularly susceptible to a wide range of injuries given their repetitive training routines and/or high-intensity, high-impact work environmen …

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 …