In this issue, trailering expert Tom Scheve gives you six essential steps you need to take to ready your rig for the busy travel season. When it’s time to hit the road, don’t miss top trainer/clinician Ken McNabb’s safe-trailering secrets and Barb Crabbe, DVM’s proven tips to help keep your horse cool while traveling in hot weather.
You consider yourself an excellent driver. You no longer need to practice your hauling skills, as you did when you were a novice. Or do you? “When something as difficult and dangerous as driving starts to feel ‘easy,’ you might fail to perform the organizational tasks necessary to keep you and your horse safe on the road,” notes expert Rebecca Gimenez-Husted, PhD. In this issue, she gives you the reasons behind this phenomenon, and how to stay on track.
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