Equine Expert Gifts

Doctor Ernie, Animal Scientist, Answers Your Questions. A reader in Colorado asks "When should a colt be weaned from its mother?" A foal and his mommy are soon parted!

'It's heat exhaustion! She's in heat and he's exhausted.'

Skipping Horse

Braiding a Horse's Tail

The Victors

Sympathetic nursing will work wonders

Use the body brush vigorously - he will enjoy it.

'You must be fast, agile and unflappable! Having fun just got serious ponies....welcome to gymkhana!

Stubborn Horse

And you will know it has all be worth it when he's up and about again.

Horse statue throws off rider.

Mr Briggs's Pleasures of Horsekeeping - No. IX

'Humans seem to be so weight-conscious: My rider weighs himself before each race...'

'It's not as easy as you think - saddle sores, bursitis in the shoulder, pigeons...'

'This goes way beyond just keeping the flies off me...I'm fighting crime now too!'

ONE HORSE TOWN

"She just asked me if she could have a few friends in to watch the International Horse Show."

The family picnic is at 5. Would you please boil the eggs, Twig? And Teddy? Go clean out the cooler! Oh! Grab the badminton set, too. Stop. Your little cousins will need entertaining! Leave it to mom � To take the independence out of Independence Day.

'There! Now he's tied to my satisfaction and ready for surgery!'

Gentlemen Riders

'The country is awfully deep, but the falling is delightfully soft and safe'

Polo player on an inflatable horse.

"The first thing we have to do is get you up there."

'He says not to panic because horses have lots of blood...'

"Just badly sprained thank goodness... I was so scared it might be broken..."

A pony throws its rider.

'Man! I wish I'd finished college.'

'Well, I can't find anything in the rule book about it.'

Mr Briggs's Pleasures of Horsekeeping - No. X.

'...and what do doctors recommend for pain?'

A day at the races

A man selling a horse to an older lady

'Most dogs chase cars, Sally but mine is into them!'

'I know you like your stallions tall Mary, but a clydesdale?'

"Well, I finally saw a shrink today."