Equestrian Editorial

How Horseback Riding shaped Wyoming’s History Though horses originated in America, there was a 10,000 year hiatus in the history of horses on this continent because it seems that about that long ago Native Americans hunted them to extinction,... Read more

As the superb cave paintings at Lascaux and elsewhere attest, horses have existed in Western Europe for over 30 millennia and must have provided an important source of food for local hunters.  We do not know just when people... Read more

History of Horseback Riding in Spain; From Alta Mira to the American Plains The arrival date for the first wild horses to reach Spain after their ancestors crossed the Bering Straits from America is lost to us in the... Read more

Making New Equestrian Friends If you love to ride, but the rest of your family and friends don’t share your enthusiasm, join one of our horseback riding vacations where you have a good chance of making new friends with... Read more

Travel on Horseback Travel on horseback and by horse-drawn vehicle has an illustrious history which has had an enormous impact on the course of world events. Today in the developed parts of the globe it has become mainly an... Read more

A Royal Ride through India’s History I have ridden in more than 20 countries over the last 40 years and had some glorious experiences. Two contrasting rides stand out for me because of the excitement of the adventure, the... Read more

No horses, no cowboys The history of horseback riding in Arizona traces back to about a century after the Spanish conquistadors first arrived on American soil in the 16th century. After 1680, when the Pueblo Rebellion took place in... Read more

Of History, Horses and Dressage The Ancient Greeks were the first to leave records about anything like the art of dressage. Almost 2,500 years ago Xenophon wrote a treatise about how to teach horses and riders to do movements... Read more