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Hair Fall
Hair loss in the horse can be caused by something simple, such as environment and temperature, or it can be caused by a more serious dermatophyte (fungus), such as ringworm, that invades the hair follicles of the skin.
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Vet Corner
Bone Chips Fall Into Different Categories
Bone chips or chip fractures of horses’ joints are properly termed "osteochondral fragments." Osteo (Latin for bone) and chondral (Latin for cartilage) describe the make-up of the fragments that can cause irritation and lameness in a horse’s joint. In horses, the major component of the fragment is normally bone.
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Relaxation & Concentration - The heart and Soul of Mental Toughness
Everyone talks about the importance of “being mentally tough” but few can tell you exactly what “mental toughness” really means or how you should go about developing it. By far the two most critical mental skills are RELAXATION: the ability to stay calm and composed under pressure, and CONCENTRATION: the ability to focus in on what’s important and let go of everything else. So let’s take a technique-like look at both of these key components to mental toughness. What can you do to strengthen your ability to stay calm under pressure and focus on the correct things?
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Buying the Dressage Prospect
At the low level of dressage, training or first level, a horse may move much in the same frame as an A show hunter, but if the horse is a prospect for upper level in dressage, he must be conformationally built to handle the demands of greater collection.
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Breeding
The Carmargue Horse
The Camargue has a very distinctive action - the walk is long, high-stepping, and exceptionally active, but the trot is so short and stilted that the horse is rarely ridden at that pace. However, the canter and gallop are extraordinarily free.
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The Icelandic Horse - The Original Horse of The Vikings
The Icelandic Horse is one of the most famous features of this land of ice and fire that lies in the inhospitable North Atlantic. The original horse of the Vikings, it was taken to Iceland over a thousand years ago and pure bred ever since.
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The Irish Draught : Intelligent, Gentle Horses
The Irish Draught also jumped well, a quality which arose from the Irish love of hunting, encouraging the Irish horses to develop their innate talent across-country. They are intelligent, gentle horses with plenty of common sense, making them easy to train, and bold but careful jumpers, with an instinct for hunting.
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The World Famous Lipizzaner
The Lipizzan, or Lipizzaner, is a breed of horse closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria where the finest representatives demonstrate the "high school" movements of classical dressage, including the highly advanced "airs above the ground."
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David Farmilo : 'Australia's most trusted Horse Farrier.'
David Farmilo has 50 years of practical experience gathered as a competitor, colt breaker, farrier and problem solver, and in that time has shod well over 100,000 horses.Understanding the horse's hoof has been a passion if not an obsession since the day David Farmilo shod his first horse.
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The Arabian Horse - The Purest and Oldest Horse Breeds
The Arabian horse is accepted throughout the world as the purest and oldest of all horse breeds. Its origins are in the Middle Eastern deserts where the Bedouin tribesmen used it as a warhorse.
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