Tania Millen shares expert tips and a 12-week horse fitness plan to build strength, stamina, and conditioning while helping prevent injuries.

Canadian show jumping star Tiffany Foster shares expert training advice to help riders improve their horses' rideability, stride adjustability, and jumping performance. At a Canadian Sport Horse Association symposium in Alberta, Foster demonstrates practical show jumping exercises while emphasizing positive horse training, clear communication, and the importance of building strong foundations for competitive success.

“The goal is a horse that jumps consistently well because it has been shown the correct way every time,” says Canadian Olympic show jumper Amy Millar. At a special clinic celebrating the Canadian Sport Horse Association's 100th anniversary, Millar shared valuable training insights with riders in Alberta. From building a strong foundation and improving rhythm and balance to allowing horses to learn from their mistakes, Tania Millen explores Millar's practical advice for developing confident, consistent show jumping horses.

In August 2026, four Canadian team riders and one alternate travelled to Europe to represent Working Equitation Canada at the 2026 Working Equitation (WE) World Championships in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain from September 8 to 13. It was the first time that Canadian riders had participated in the WE World Championships, which is hosted every four years by the World Association of Working Equitation (WAWE). Four of the five riders were riding leased horses.

Published by Purdue University Press 2026

ISBN-10: 1626712255, ISBN-13: 978-1626712256, 216 pages

Shortly after 5 pm on Wednesday, February 21, 1849, a lone rider galloped from the pier in Halifax, Nova Scotia west towards Digby, 232 kilometres (146 miles) away on the east coast of the Bay of Fundy. He carried a highly sought-after news packet that had arrived just moments earlier by the Cunard Royal Mail steamship Europa, from Liverpool, England.

Selecting athletes for any team is hard. Selecting athletes for the first Canadian team that a fledgling organization has ever sent to a World Championships is doubly difficult. However, using subjective selection criteria which results in the highest ranked rider being left off the team pretty much guarantees that sport enthusiasts will question the selection process, the organization, and whether they want to be involved in future.

Balancing results while doing right by the horse - Over 500 rapt horse lovers sat and listened to the two-hour long Elite Horsemanship Summit at Horse Expo Canada in Red Deer, Alberta on April 24, 2026.

Holidays on Horseback - Sven, the Haflinger pack pony, jerked his head up and snorted. I looked uphill towards our camp and caught a humpy flash of beige ducking behind a stunted fir tree. Grizzly, I thought. I was hand-grazing Sven and my paint mare, Jewel, on a frosty July morning in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia during a solo pack trip. When Sven jerked his head up again, a beige grizzly bear shambled downhill towards us. Just 20 metres uphill from the first bear, a second bear rose up on its hind legs out of the brush before dropping down onto all fours and following the frontrunner. As the two bears lumbered towards us, Sven danced around on his lead line while Jewel kept grazing, and my heart beat a little quicker. As I considered what to do, a third bear trundled out of the trees and followed the first two. They were all grizzlies, all full size, and all coming straight at us. I started to sweat.