Horse Illustrated Magazine

Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s weekly installment of the Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, offered in partnership with the ASPCA’s Right Horse program

If you’re in the market for a new truck for towing, you may have considered going electric. Can electric trucks really replace gas-powered trucks when it comes to hauling?

We place impressive demands on our farm and towing vehicles, and we expect them to work as hard as we do. We fill up the truck bed with bags of feed, move hay, drive out to the pasture with ...

Mark training is a form of liberty training. In regular liberty training, a horse is trained to be drawn to the handler, but in mark training, the horse is sent to a mark.

A mark is any object that you train your horse to go to. We typically use a thick piece of wood that is a couple feet long and a couple feet wide. You can also use a mat, a pedestal, et cetera.

Sleep is often an overlooked element in the life of an equestrian, overshadowed by early morning barn chores and multi-day competitions. Most days are filled balancing training schedules with your other daily responsibilities. But sleep is the cornerstone of recovery and performance, and has a major effect on injury prevention for all riders, whether you’re navigating the int...

Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s weekly installment of the Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, offered in partnership with the ASPCA’s Right Horse program