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Articles in this section:
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Barn Skills & Management
- Night Lights and Music in the Barn
- Things to Know Before Building a Barn or Arena
- Tips for Choosing a New Barn
- Tips for Keeping Your Tack Room Organized
- Turning Out Your Horse: To Boot or Not to Boot?
- Storing Equine Medications
- Ask the Vet: Using Sonar Devices around Horses
- 101 Things I Didn’t Know About Raising a Young Horse #27 – They take a lot (a lot!) of naps
- How to use Fly Stoppers™
- Horse Insurance 101
- How to Introduce a New Horse to a Herd
- 2022 Tack Trunk Organization!
- Tips for Juggling a Busy Schedule and Horses
- Managing the Feed Room
- Keeping Track of Yearly Wellness Requirements
- Winter Is Coming: Time to get Organized!
- SmartPaker Annina's Boarding Barn Questionnaire
- Preventing Horse Barn Fires
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Blanketing & Seasonal Care
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Grooming
- Clipping a Horse’s Whiskers
- How to Button Braid
- How to Groom a Horse for Beginners
- How to Help a Short Forelock Grow
- Horse Grooming Tools Guide
- Trimming Ergots and Chestnuts on Horses Legs
- Mane & Tail Makeover
- Bathing: How much is too much?
- Tips for maintaining the perfect tail
- Making Your Mark: How to craft the perfect quarter marks
- How to do hunter braids
- Shortening Thin Manes
- How to Pull a Mane with No Muss and No Fuss
- How do you get a horse used to a vacuum?
- Is a Vacuum the Answer to Your Winter Grooming Struggles?
- Yin & Yang – The Happy Balance of Keeping Your White Horse White and Your Black Horse Black
- Secrets to an Effective Horse Show Grooming Routine
- How to do dressage braids
- Ask the Groom – Cold Weather Bathing
- Tips & Tricks For Shedding Season
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Tack & Equipment
- Bridle Guide
- When and How to Use Studs in Horseshoes
- How to Choose Boots for Your Horse
- How to Choose the Right Halter
- How to Put Together an English Bridle
- How to Put Together a Western Headstall
- Horse Tack and Leather Care Guide
- New Horse Shopping List
- Does My Bit Fit?
- Choosing the Riding Stirrups That Are Right For You
- How to tell if your saddle has a broken tree featuring Kate Ballard
- Bits + Pieces
- Minimizing the Saddle Shopping Woes
- SmartPak's Top Ergonomic Tack Picks
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Training & Showing
- How to Design a Hunter Course
- How to Design an Equitation Course
- Hunter Jumper Horse Show Packing List
- Tips for Hosting a Horse Show
- 15 Show-Day Secrets from a Judge
- Picking Color Schemes for Your Hunter
- My Favorite Jumping into Gymnastic Exercises
- Taking on a project horse
- Fall in Love with Hunter Paces
- Staying Organized on Show Day
- Benefits and risks of working my horse on hills
- Attitude Dos and Don'ts
- Handling Horse Show Nerves
- Seven Steps to Sidesaddle Success!
- Planning and Setting Riding Goals for the Year
- Dressage Seat Equitation: Calling all adult amateurs!
- Adjusting Yearly Riding Goals
- How to Design a Musical Freestyle
- SmartPaker Danielle's Top Tips for Riding Nerves
- Smart Tips for Winter Rides
- Getting Back into Gear: Spring Riding!
- 8 Simple Steps to Freestyle Bronze
- 10 Tips for Surviving “Behind the Scenes” at a Horse Show
- Extreme Mountain Trail Riding
- Tips for Trying Horses
- 4 Ways to Make Winter Riding More Fun
- Trail Riding Tenacity
- SmartPakers' Top Tips and Tricks for Riding Anxiety
- Trot Poles with a Twist
- How to tie a stock tie
- SmartTips: Quick & Easy Ground Poles
- Fun with Ground Poles!
- Cooling Out a Hot Horse
