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Is Your Child Ready For A Horse? Part 2
Posted by sierra on 21 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Horse Riding
How can your child benefit from your owning a horse? Many, many ways. Caring for an animal encourages a child to be responsible, as well as encouraging teamwork. The routine of feeding and caring helps instill a sense of organization and discipline. And a child who is shy or nervous can actually gain self-confidence from handling and being around a larger animal.
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Is Your Child Ready For A Horse? Part 1.
Posted by sierra on 19 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Horse Safety, Horse Riding
Here are Horse IQ, we spend a lot of time talking about the finer points of horse ownership. But I want to make an effort to spend more time with people who are considering their first horse. Particularly for a child. How do you know if your child is ready to take on the kind of responsibility a horse requires?
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The Equestrian Event That's 70 Times More Dangerous Than All Others Combined. And What You Must Have To Protect Yourself.
Posted by sierra on 10 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Horse Riding
A late-90’s Australian study tracked 4220 riders over 35 events in every riding event in south Australia. The study focused specifically on riding injuries (to the humans, not the horses). When the data was finally tabulated, the injury data was pretty spread out among all the events going on at that time. All, that is, except one…
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