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Health and how-to advice every horse owner can use. Here are horsekeeping tips, horse-handling guides, and hauling hints, plus rider-fitness routines and riding-confidence boosters.

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Confidence
Horse Shopping
Problem Solved
Rider Fitness
Stable Management
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Test-Ride that Saddle!
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Strategies for 'Going Bare'
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The Fly-Spray Dance
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Understand Your Horse's Eyesight
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ABCs for Teaching Tyke Riders Part 1: Getting Started
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Show-Day Do
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Muscle Maladies
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7 Top Tricks for Becoming a Fly Control Expert
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Gallop Poll: Ever Used Hoof Boots?
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On-Trail Confidence Boost
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Selecting a Western Breast-Collar
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Tack-Room Organizers
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