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Horse Canada • 9th March 2021

Handling and Training Wild Horses, New Zealand-Style

Wild horses have been a part of the New Zealand landscape for some time (feral herds were recorded as early as 1876) but the delicate ecosystem of the areas they graze can be damaged if the herds get too big. As a result there is a lot of pressure on landowners to manage horse numbers by culling or removal.

Chloe Phillips-Harris, A 4* event rider, adventurer and Mongol Derby veteran, initially wanted to test the skills she had learned working with problem horses. Once word got out that she was
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Horse Canada • 15th May 2020

Racing into the Unknown: A Canadian's Patagonian Adventure

When Chris Peterson got the call informing him he had a spot in a 500-km race across the Patagonian wilderness in South America on horseback, he only had four months to prepare ‒ but he loves a challenge.

Having worked with beef cattle outfits off and on since he was a teenager, guided horseback trips in Wyoming and Banff where he had packed strings of four to eight horses and mules, worked as a farrier, and logged timber for a few years with draft horses in the East Kootenays of BC, he was als
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