EventHorse.org

This site was created to fill a need I saw among new horse-owners — a desperate need for training and education.

What you as a horse owner should know is that if you don’t have the time, money, knowledge, or commitment to care for a horse, YOU SHOULD NOT OWN A HORSE.

Too often, people buy horses because (understandably) they are beautiful, engaging animals, but have no idea how to properly care for them. They have no idea how to train a horse so that it can be handled safely. They have no idea how much work and money it takes to keep a horse healthy. Backyard breeders create thousands of foals with easily preventable genetic diseases and terrible conformation. Don’t breed if you don’t know what you’re doing. People get in over their heads, and the horse is left to suffer.

The victim in this is always the horse. Thousands of horses end up going to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada every year because people didn’t know what they were doing, or got in over their heads. Don’t be one of those people. If you see a horse that’s being abused, either actively or by neglect, call Animal Control. If you can’t care for your horse, sell it, or turn it over to a rescue organization (there are some listed to the right).

I have attempted to compile my accumulated knowledge from 25 years of caring for horses as a free online resource. I have ridden and cared for my horses since the age of 9. My riding background includes 3-day eventing, fox-hunting, hunter-jumpers, and Pony Club.

I groomed for and trained under 7-time Olympian and 10-time USCTA Rider of the Year J. Michael Plumb, and have trained with dressage riders Jessica Ransehousen and Todd Fletterich, and eventer Jimmy Wofford. I have fox-hunted, trained several off-the-track horses for careers in eventing and dressage, ridden as an exercise rider on the track, and mostly just enjoyed their company.

Read, learn, and carefully consider if you can care for a horse. Questions? PLEASE e-mail me with any you have.

Thank you,

Amanda