Month: January 2023

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Some tricks you can teach your horse

Whether you have a miniature horse, a Clydesdale-style horse, or something in between, there are many tricks you can teach your horse. These tricks range from simple to complex and each trick has sweeping benefits for both your horse’s mental and physical state. Here are some of the most fun tricks.

Counting (with your foot) and reaction acumen 

Counting with your foot is a great way to teach your horse how to count, and it’s also a good way to teach your horse how to react to commands or words.You can do this by stomping  a number of times with your foot and have your horse respond to that number.

To begin this trick, you’ll need some treats that are easy for the horse to eat like carrots or apples. 

Start by showing the horse one treat and saying “1.” Then show another treat and say “2.” Keep repeating this until you get up to 10, then start over again at 1 again.

Back up trick

Backing up is a good trick to teach your horse, and it’s fun too. To back your horse without a lead rope, start by walking forward with him on the right side of you. Next, when he reaches the end of the lead rope, pull it upward while turning to face him. You may need to walk backwards in order for him to realize what you want from him. If so, keep walking until his nose meets yours and then stop walking backwards so that he can look at you and figure out what comes next in this game!

Bow trick

If you want to teach your horse to bow, first make sure that it’s an appropriate behavior for the situation. For example, if you’re at a show and someone is going to groom your horse, it is generally okay to ask your horse to bow so they can reach those hard-to-reach places on the back. However, if there are no people around who need access to its backside don’t ask your horse to bow just because. Horses should only be asked or encouraged to do things when they’re useful or fun!

Play dead

If you want to teach your horse this trick, make sure that you are not too close to their head and also make sure that you are not standing in a position where you could fall over.

Often times the horse will think of playing dead as just laying down on the ground without any other purpose. This can be confusing for your horse if it doesn’t understand what you want from them so make sure they know how important it is for them to play dead when asked.

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What to know about Triple Crown horse races 

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing is one of the biggest events in the world of horse racing. The three races that it includes, the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes, are all on their own fun and exciting. But together, they capture the attention of people who wouldn’t even consider themselves fans of horse racing in any other context.

There’s a reason for that: the Triple Crown can be hard to win from a logistical perspective, and horses really have to earn it. If you’ve ever wondered what goes into winning this legendary event or why it has such an outsized reputation as an accomplishment, check out these great facts about it.

Triple Crown – a high title

It’s been around since 1875 when it was first awarded as a prize for any horse who won those races in the same year. As the original name of the title was too long, in 1890 it was renamed as “Triple Crown” during a newspaper dispute between two papers over which one had rights to publish news about racing.

The Associated Press (AP) claimed that it owned all rights to stories about racing and would not allow others to publish them unless they paid AP money for doing so. However, some newspapers refused to pay this fee because they felt they had their own sources within racing circles who could provide them with information without having to rely on AP journalists who were writing largely biased or inaccurate articles at times due to their lack of knowledge about certain aspects related specifically towards horse racing itself.

Here’s what it takes to win the Triple Crown

You have to win the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes and Preakness Stakes in the same year. The first two races are held within a week of each other, and the third race is a month after them.

Horses must qualify for the Triple Crown races

To qualify for these prestigious horse races, horses must complete a long qualification process that includes being nominated by their owners and trainers.

As you can imagine, this is a very difficult task for racehorses to achieve.

The first step in qualifying is for an owner to nominate his/her horse by sending in paperwork with signatures from both the trainer and jockey (if applicable). Then it’s up to the racing committee at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky to decide which horses will be allowed into each Triple Crown race based off of their records at previous competitions.

Once you’ve made it through those steps, comes perhaps the most difficult part: actually competing in these events! These races require several hours of running at high speeds while maintaining stamina throughout their entire journey—so it really pays off if your horse has proven himself capable before even entering one event!

Winning the Triple Crown is pretty hard!

Only 13 horses have ever accomplished winning The Triple Crown. The first winner of all three Triple Crown races was Sir Barton in 1919 and the last horse to win it was Justify in 2018. So it’s definitely true that winning this Triple Crown is not easy.

Even if you don’t know anything else about horse racing (or sports in general),I hope that this article was interesting enough so that maybe next time there’s a big race on TV you give it a watch!