Category: Facts & Terminology

For the longest time, I had no idea what an OTTB was. I even had friends who would talk about their OTTBs and I didn't even know what they were. Finally, I asked them what an OTTB was and what OTTB...

Horses are almost immediately put down after breaking a limb, but why? Why can't horses just get their leg put in a plaster cast as people do? Are there any survivors of broken limbs in the horse...

I remember hearing somewhere that racehorses aren't always the age that people say they are because of the universal birthday rule that surrounds horse racing. Curious if this was true or not, I did...

I was trail riding with my boyfriend with the plan to ride my horses to a lake. When we got to the trail heading towards the lake, we saw that horses were not allowed to enter. Curious, we asked a...

I am often asked, what is a gelding? How are they different from stallions? What is a mare? And how can I tell the difference between these horses? Before I knew much about horses, these terms...

Horses have great stamina and have the ability to travel for many miles in a day, but how far can they travel? When people traveled by horses in the past how far could they travel daily? I did some...