Summit Director Maddy Butcher will join colleagues Connie Crawford and Kari Weil for an hour session of Horse Sense, part of the Brown University symposium and part of Re-Examining Conservation: [...]

The Best Horse Practices Summit has a great track record of offering interesting, engaging electives before and after the two-day conference. Past electives have included yoga and strength [...]

It’s only March, but we are getting excited for the 5th installment of the Best Horse Practices Summit. Will you join us? On October 21, we’ll welcome attendees to this stellar event [...]

Editor’s Note: Less than a month into registration, we have dozens of Summiteers signed up for our conference in October in Kentucky. Sara Kirkwood is coming back, after attending last year [...]

Best Horse Practices Summit director Maddy Butcher and the Board of Directors are pleased and excited to announce the presenters for arena and academic offerings for October 21-23, 2022, at Spy [...]

Editor’s Note: Something remarkable happened during the farewell reception last fall. Warwick Schiller and Wade Black were chatting after Wade’s arena presentation. Wade was reflecting on what he [...]

Editor’s Note: Summit attendee and horse gal, Stephanie Rogers, shared this note with us after the conference in Lexington. Check out her blog here and her book here. Stephanie writes: I [...]

Editor’s Note: The following remarks were made by director Maddy Butcher at the Farewell Reception of the Best Horse Practices Summit at Spy Coast Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. One thing [...]

Editor’s Note: The following remarks were delivered by Maddy Butcher, executive director, Saturday morning, October 30, at the opening of the 4th Best Horse Practices Summit at Spy Coast [...]

One of the most important aspects of the Best Horse Practices Summit mission is to ensure our educational legacy through future years. That’s why we capture every presentation, produce them [...]