Featured Articles
Selected articles from the current issues of Horse Sport, Horse-Canada and Canadian Thoroughbred are featured below. You can also visit our Article Archives which feature a number of articles on a variety of topics that have been published in our magazines.
Pretty Young Things
Horse Sport February 2010
by Kim IzzoPreparting Young Horses for Inspection and Cup Classes If you’re a Canadian breeder of sport horses, chances are good that you’ve had to present your young mares and foals for inspection into a studbook, or you’ve entered your very best in a Governor General Cup qualifier in a bid to compete at the Royal Read more »
Big Daddies
Canadian Thoroughbred February 2010
by Jennifer MorrisonBOLD EXECUTIVE Leading Canadian Sire by Money Won Entering his 26th year, Bold Executive squeaked out his fourth consecutive title as Canada’s leading stallion by progeny earnings, edging newcomer Milwaukee Brew by less than $40,000. Statistics were tabulated from January 1 through Dec. 31, 2009 by The Jockey Club Information Systems. Read more »
How Horses Learn
2010 Canadian Horse Annual
by Karin ApfelA recent survey of over 200 coaches registered with Australia’s National Coaches Accreditation Scheme surprised researchers with how little many of them knew about how horses actually learn. Most, in fact, were unable to explain how to use positive or negative reinforcement when training. Less than 3% properly described how to Read more »
