SmartPak Recipe: DIY No Bake Maple Banana Oat Horse Treats Winter and the holiday season are right around the corner. How did that happen?! When I think of the holidays, I think of spending time wit…
Pony-Approved Charcuterie One of my favorite trends is fancy charcuterie boards. However, sunny days and summertime finds me spending lots of hours at the barn over…
Tips for Trail Riders For me, trail riding is a great opportunity to explore nature while strengthening my relationship with my horse. It’s important to remembe…
Outsmarting the Enemy Beef up your fly-defense arsenal to keep these annoying adversaries from breeching your barn’s front lines. The sweet stirrings of summer…
SmartPak Recipe: Puppy (N)Ice Cream Warm weather is upon us, nothing is better than a nice cool ice cream cone after a warm spring or hot summer’s day! It’s a total bummer but…
Scrapes without Scars? Try Silver Honey! Wound care is one of those things you hope to never have to use but is something that is always good to have in your tack trunk, just in…
Enzo's Pellet Preference: A Cosequin® Story My horse Enzo is notoriously picky. He also gets a fair amount of powdered supplements. I’ve got a good routine down for his quirks after 7…
Maximum Support (from Cosequin) for Max! Finding the right joint supplement can be hard, especially with so many currently on the market. When I decided to put my now 14-year-old…
New Season, New Struggles Each changing season brings a new slew of health and wellness concerns for horse owners, and my senior Thoroughbred is no exception! With…
SmartPak Recipe: Homemade Valentine’s Day Horse Hearts I absolutely adore my horse Finley, but sadly I don’t know his actual birth date, and his Gotcha Day (October 1st) always seems to fly by…
Waco in a Winter Wonderland Winter in New England as an equestrian can be a lot of fun, the bugs are gone back to the underworld, there is no more oppressive heat and…
New Year, New Goals 2021 brought a lot of challenges and changes for many of us, so for 2022 SmartPakers are starting off on the right hoof (or paw) with new…
We Asked, You Answered: Spring Conditioning SmartPak asked 'what's the best way to bring a horse back into riding after winter'. Here's what our community had to say!
We Asked, You Answered: Winter Must-Haves SmartPak asked what your must-haves are at the barn in the winter, here's what you had to say!
Pony-Approved Charcuterie One of my favorite trends is fancy charcuterie boards. However, sunny days and summertime finds me spending lots of hours at the barn over…
SmartPak Equine Valentines Chestnuts are red, ribbons are blue, Happy Valentine’s Dayfrom SmartPak to you! From all of us here at SmartPak, we’re wishing you a Happy…
Sweat With SmartPak – Episode Three Welcome back to SmartPak’s Equestrian Exercise mini-series, where SmartPakers Caitlin and Tori demonstrate helpful tips and tricks on worko…
5 Tips for a horse’s first trail ride – Delilah’s big day out At my barn, where we teach lessons through the year as well as summer camp, it’s imperative that our horses be as “worldly” as possible.…