by Carleigh Fedorka|06.17.201906.17.2019|3:25pm10:07pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: The Journey Of Retraining Isn’t Always A Straight Line Four years ago, I was at the top of my game. Fresh off a good sales year, where I had taken three horses and retrained them for their second career, I found myself feeling pretty invincible. They had all been different types. One a fancy Warmblood who just didn’t want to dressage anymore, a massive […]
by Chelsea Hackbarth|05.31.2019|3:47pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: A ‘Lightbulb Moment’ In The Quest To Teach A Horse To Accept Contact Top U.S. show jumper Candice King grew up riding cutting horses in California and showing a pair of Appaloosas in the jumpers, all the way up to the puissance at age 14. The internationally successful King has a well-earned reputation for being able to effectively work with the most difficult and sensitive horses, but I […]
by Carleigh Fedorka|04.26.2019|3:19pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Slow And Steady Wins The Race Thousands of Thoroughbreds are retired from the racetrack every year. Many go off to the breeding sheds, while others transition rapidly to a sport horse career. I know this because I stand somewhere in the limbo between the two. As a scientist, I study equine reproduction. As a pensioned farm manager, I find myself tracking […]
by Jonathan Horowitz|03.18.201903.18.2019|10:34am9:54pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: ‘So Much More Than A Horse Show’ At first glance, they seemed out of place, like when basketball great Michael Jordan played minor league baseball for a season or when MMA champion Conor McGregor stepped in a boxing ring against that sport’s best, Floyd Mayweather. There was the trainer of the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner putting on a show coat like an […]
by Rosie Napravnik|02.28.2019|11:34am Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Rosie’s ‘Unicorn’ And The Power Of Trot Poles When I was six years old, I knew that my calling in life was to be a jockey. And so I set a goal: to be the youngest jockey and first female ever to win the Triple Crown. Simple as that! Unfortunately, I never met that goal. I did, however, do everything in my power […]
by Joell Dunlap|01.17.201901.17.2019|11:19am6:58pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: The Smiling Thoroughbred, And How Trick Training Can Help You I am the founder of the Square Peg Foundation, where we employ rescue horses (many of them OTTBs) in a therapeutic riding program for kids. People sometimes ask what it takes to get a new horse ready for our program. The WHY I was introduced to trick training when trying to figure out how to […]
by Dr. Elizabeth James|12.17.201812.17.2018|3:30pm8:38pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Ozzie Is Stepping Out And Stepping Up With Liberty Training Today, we’re bringing you the new incarnation of the Aftercare Spotlight. Each month, we’ll publish a column from a different person training an off-track Thoroughbred telling us what they’re working on with their horse and what they’ve learned from the process so far. Our goal is to bring our readers a variety of perspectives and […]
by Jen Roytz|11.21.201811.22.2018|9:20am8:46pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: So Long But Not Goodbye “The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi It was about seven years ago that I wrote the first installment of what would become known as the “Aftercare Spotlight” series for the Paulick Report, and it’s fitting that, for me, the journey ends where it all began. It was about […]
by Jen Roytz|11.15.201811.15.2018|12:21pm6:16pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: The Gentle Approach Of Square Peg “Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It’s that you’re destroying the peg.” – Paul Collins, author of Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of Autism In the town of Half Moon, […]
by Jen Roytz|11.07.201811.07.2018|1:04pm6:21pm Cosequin Presents Aftercare Spotlight: Desensitizing Horses For Racing And Life Everyone wants a horse that can handle its surroundings. Whether it’s the hustle and bustle of the sales grounds, the energy-charged environment on race day, the controlled chaos of a horse show or simply hacking out in unfamiliar territory, a horse that doesn’t lose its marbles and resort to “flight mode” when the unfamiliar or […]