Safeguarding Show Horses: Impossible?

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Horses are magnets for mischief–we all know this. It’s the reason TheHorse.com currently hosts more than 32,000 articles to help you safeguard your steeds. Still, I frequently lapse into the mindset that my Warmblood mare Lily is immune to trouble because she lives at such a top-notch facility. This is simply not true. And she kindly jogged my memory of it last week.

No matter the facilities or level of care, horses will still find ways to hurt themselves

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Alexandra Beckstett, a native of Houston, Texas, is a lifelong horse owner who has shown successfully on the national hunter/jumper circuit and dabbled in hunter breeding. After graduating from Duke University, she joined Blood-Horse Publications as assistant editor of its book division, Eclipse Press, before joining The Horse. She was the managing editor of The Horse for nearly 14 years and is now editorial director of EquiManagement and My New Horse, sister publications of The Horse.

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