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• News: May is Adopt a Horse month
• Nutrition: Feeding the easy keeper
• Style: Schooling wear
• Vet Adventures: Dr. Diehl takes a look at trail string horses that are treated neglectfully vs. those that are well taken care of.
• Horse People: Lauren Reischer was born with cerebral palsy but has worked hard to make her riding dreams come true.
• Western: Jason Irwin shows you how to get a horse to stand statue-still for mounting.
• English: Test your two-point in this excerpt from The Athletic Equestrian.
• Equestrian Destination: Take a tour of the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Fla.
• Care: Find out a professional groom’s greatest grooming secrets.
• Health: Horses may not experience heart failure to the degree that humans do, but murmurs and arrhythmias aren’t uncommon.
• Five experienced barn moms explain how they juggle raising a baby with their time at the barn.
• Competing forces continue to battle over population growth among BLM Mustangs. Some new fertility control measures may help.
• A noted equine-industry lawyer walks you through the situations most likely to bring about legal woes if you own a horse.
• Breed: Spotted Saddle Horse