The world of all things horses returns to the 25-acre climate-controlled Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, PA March 5-8. Horse World Expo, the east coast’s largest and best-attended equestrian expo, features four days of non-stop education, entertainment and shopping. Scores of horses representing a large variety of breeds and types and leading equestrian clinicians and entertainers draw tens of thousands of horse enthusiasts from across the eastern United States and beyond.
Horse World Expo is two events in one. The Expo features regional, national and international clinicians covering almost every topic of interest to horse owners and enthusiasts. From competitions and presentations by regional horses and riders to one-stop, unparalleled shopping with everything imaginable for horses, riders and horse lovers, it’s everything you need…all in one huge, heated building.
We asked the team at Back on Track how technology can improve performance.
Q: There are so many new technologies hitting the market. How can technology improve performance?
A: For us, these are the questions we’re constantly working to answer. Great rides are increasingly powered by smart materials greater comfort for horse and rider. One of the most widely used examples in barns today is far-infrared (FIR) textile technology, which repurposes the body’s own heat to support circulation, ease stiffness, and aid recovery for both horses and riders. Back on Track’s Welltex® is a leading FIR textile: ceramic and mineral particles are embedded in the fabric to reflect natural body heat as long-wave (far-infrared) energy, a property tied to improved local blood flow and comfort.
Beloved local landmark and legacy closes its doors after 55 years.
Land of Little Horses miniature horse farm and attraction in Gettysburg, PA was to hold a sale of all of their horses, tack and equipment in an auction on the farm on February 28, leaving behind a rich history and a legacy of over 55 years of sharing small equines with horse lovers from across the globe.
The regional favorite and local treasure was founded in 1971 by Merchant Marines Tony Garulo and Stu Erickson, who were enchanted by the Falabella family’s miniature horse breeding program in Argentina. They imported 25 miniature horses from Argentina to Gettysburg, opening the Gettysburg Miniature Horse Farm on 100 rolling acres. They then started the original United States Registry for Falabella Miniature Horses.
Each winter, an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 horse people relocate seasonally to North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, bringing roughly 20,000 to 40,000 horses with them. That annual movement has made this three-state region one of the most important winter bases in the Eastern U.S. horse industry—a place where training, conditioning, and competition continue when winter brings much of the northern horse world to a halt.
For much of the Eastern United States, winter slows riding, limits turnout, and compresses schedules. In the Carolinas and Georgia, winter does the opposite. From late fall through early spring, barns fill, training programs expand, and entire communities reorganize around a seasonal population that is temporary but deeply integrated. This region is not defined by spectacle or novelty. It is defined by continuity.
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