Listen to Episode 16 Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We […]

Listen to Episode 23. This is Episode 23 of Season 3 and in it, I’m going to talk a bit about brain science as well as a scary colic incident. You can find articles on vision science here and here. It’s fascinating stuff! You will […]

Editor’s Note: We welcome past Best Horse Practices Summit attendees and fan, Kerry O’Brien, as a guest columnist. Kerry lives in Colorado and is a lifelong student of animals, behavior, and brain science. Before that, she had a bodywork and functional movement practice in Los […]

Listen to Episode 27 In this episode, Jec visits with Alayne Blickle of Horses for Clean Water. Alayne is a former Best Horse Practices Summit presenter based in Idaho. Here, she talks about many strategies we can use to address best practices around horse management. […]

Editor’s Note: Maddy Butcher presented with Connie Crawford and Kari Weil at Brown University’s Re-Examining Conservation. The symposium’s equine-related presentation was title “Horse Sense.” Maddy Butcher writes: The horse, as a species, can be so mystical and mythic and magical. It’s easy to get lost […]

Listen to Episode 19 For this episode, Jec interviews Dr. Doug Thal of Thal Equine in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I first started talking with Doug a year or more ago. He came highly recommended by Katrin Silva as someone personable and knowledgeable on all […]