Guest Author, Author at The Horses Back https://thehorsesback.com/author/guest-author/ Body Talk for Thinking Owners Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:55:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thehorsesback.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-NTW-ICON-1.jpg Guest Author, Author at The Horses Back https://thehorsesback.com/author/guest-author/ 32 32 The Very Big Problem of Dwarfism in Horses https://thehorsesback.com/dwarfism-in-horses/ https://thehorsesback.com/dwarfism-in-horses/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2019 05:18:25 +0000 https://thehorsesback.com/?p=5781 In this guest post, Dr. Sonja Dominik describes equine dwarfism and what the latest tests mean for horse breeders. Sonja is a Research Scientist in Quantitative Genetics at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. She is currently a Superstar of STEM, appointed by Science & Technology Australia to increase the public visibility of women in science. To […]

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]]> https://thehorsesback.com/dwarfism-in-horses/feed/ 9 5 Ways Your Seat Can Screw Up Your Horse Without You Even Noticing https://thehorsesback.com/seat/ https://thehorsesback.com/seat/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:06:30 +0000 http://thehorsesback.com/?p=3592 In this Guest Post, the UK’s ‘Classical Seat’ trainer Heather Moffett looks at how the rider’s seat can make movement harder for the horse. It’s something that saddle fitters know about, but it’s often the last thing riders think of: the riding position as much as the saddle fit affects their horse’s back and movement.  Heather […]

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]]> https://thehorsesback.com/seat/feed/ 2 The Brooke: Why It Matters To 112 Million Working Equines That You Read This Post https://thehorsesback.com/the-brooke/ https://thehorsesback.com/the-brooke/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:16:02 +0000 http://thehorsesback.com/?p=3172 Most of us have a good idea of what animal welfare means and why it’s important. But in developing nations, cultural and economic concerns can prevail when it comes to issues such as ending a working equine’s pain. It is not so long ago that horses, donkeys and mules across Europe, the US, Canada, Australia […]

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]]> https://thehorsesback.com/the-brooke/feed/ 2 8 Golden Rules For Helping Your Thoroughbred Get Right Off The Track https://thehorsesback.com/thoroughbred/ https://thehorsesback.com/thoroughbred/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:01:22 +0000 http://thehorsesback.com/?p=2948 In this guest post, Kerry Warren Couch responds to the article on this site about ex-racehorses by stating, clearly and simply, how she has helped her OTTBs over many years, mainly by initially doing very little at all. (c) All text copyright of the author at www.thehorsesback.com. No reproduction of partial or entire text without […]

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