Equine Blogs: 37 Horse and Equestrian Blogs Checked Live

Search for equine blogs and page one includes a blanket shop's list of its twenty favourite equestrian blogs, written once and never checked again. We loaded every domain on that list, on the Feedspot lists, and in the two Chronicle of the Horse forum threads where riders recommend blogs to each other. Nine of the domains recommended there are not horse blogs any more: three said goodbye, five now serve Indonesian gambling pages or Chinese betting apps under the old name, and one has spam text injected into a site that otherwise still works.

This list is what survived, plus the horse and equestrian blogs those roundups missed. Every site was loaded on 12 September 2026, had to answer with a real page, and carries its measured Domain Rating and the newest date we could see on its front page. Trainers and horsemanship sites are on a separate page, horse training blogs, because a training audience and a lifestyle audience are not the same readers.

How this list was checked

The candidates came from three places: the Google results for equine blogs, equestrian blogs and horse blogs; the outbound links on every roundup page that ranked for those searches; and another twenty-odd searches for specific disciplines (dressage, eventing, barrel racing, trail riding, endurance, rescue, nutrition). That produced 219 domains. Each was requested over HTTPS on 12 September 2026, then requested again at its www address and over plain HTTP if the first attempt failed, because an apex domain with no DNS record is not the same thing as a dead site. Cob Jockey is only reachable at www, for example, and would have been marked dead by a lazier check.

Every domain that answered was looked up against the Ahrefs Domain Rating API. Then we read each front page and blog index for the newest date on it. That last step is the one most lists skip, and it is where this niche gets interesting: horse blogs do not tend to die quietly. They post a farewell, or they move, or the domain lapses and someone in another country buys it.

What we left out: shops with no writing, tack retailers, the associations (USEF, USDF, British Dressage), racing tipsters, and anything where the front page was a course catalogue with no articles behind it. Ten sites returned a 403 or a bot challenge and could not be verified either way; they are listed at the end of the gone section as unchecked, not as dead. We run the same process on larger lists, including the guest posting sites page.

Rider diaries and equestrian lifestyle blogs

This is the heart of the niche and the part the roundups get wrong, because they list the diaries that were active when the roundup was written. Fourteen here, with the newest visible date on each so you can tell the active ones from the archives.

An Equestrian Life (anequestrianlife.com, DR 21). Describes itself as a blog about horses, the horse lifestyle and horse culture, and reads that way: recent posts cover selling a horse after eight years, what cubbing season is at a foxhunt, and riding in Iceland. It sits at #1 on Google for the phrase equine blogs. Latest dated post January 2026.

Heather Wallace, Timid Rider (timidrider.com, DR 21). The author of Confessions of a Timid Rider, now running the Adulting with Horses podcast from the same site. The blog is older than the books and still updated; the newest entries are from September 2026.

EQUINE Ink (equineink.com, DR 25). Subtitled “my soapbox for equestrian writings”, which is accurate. Short opinionated posts, everything from winter turnout to a Budweiser Clydesdale advert, with dated entries into 2026.

My Equestrian Style (myequestrianstyle.com, DR 25). Horses, fashion and lifestyle, in that order. Riding trips to Zambia and Morocco, what to wear to a show when you are not riding, an annual holiday lookbook. The most commercial of the personal blogs here and one of the few with a real audience for equestrian clothing.

Dr. Mel Newton (melnewton.com, DR 21). Event reports, gear reviews, book reviews and an annual reading list from a vet who admits to owning eight or nine horses depending on the day. Posts are irregular by the author's own account; the newest are from December 2025.

Cob Jockey (cobjockey.com, DR 10). A training diary about a cob named Connor, with a run of posts in June 2026 about the first ninety days with a new trainer. Note that the bare domain does not resolve; you need the www address.

Raincoast Rider (raincoastrider.com, DR 7). Dated diary posts, most recently 30 August 2026, from a rider on the Pacific coast who writes about fitting horses around a job, travel and surgery. Exactly the kind of small honest blog that never makes the big roundups.

Fat Buckskin in a Little Suit (fatbuckskin.com, DR 12). Follows Finn, a buckskin in training since August, with posts on 18 August and 8 September 2026. Trail riding on the buckle past deer and gunshots is the current storyline.

Stampy and the Brain (stampyandthebrain.com, DR 12). Adventures with Ernie and show season write-ups. The newest dated posts on the front page are from late 2023, so treat this one as a live archive rather than an active diary.

Three Chestnuts (threechestnuts.com, DR 13). “The life and trials of the three red heads.” Abscess season, sound-one-day-lame-the-next, lessons squeezed in between. Dated posts through September 2025.

Bel Joeor (beljoeor.com, DR 10). Life with a BLM Mustang called Tristan, plus reviews of horse books, films and products. A small shop on the same site supports Ever After Mustang Rescue.

The Black Equestrian (theblackequestrian.com, DR 8). Shaq writes as a Black, queer adult amateur working her way up the showjumping ring. The voice is distinctive and the audience is one most equestrian media ignores. Newest dated post August 2022.

Red on the Right (redontheright.com, DR 12). A dressage and eventing amateur who groomed at the Kentucky five-star and says on the front page that the attempt to return to blogging failed. The archive is worth reading; do not expect new posts. Latest dated entry 2021.

Urban Equestrian (urbanequestrianblog.com, DR 0). “Riding and writing”, from a riding instructor. Posts are about teaching: where are you going, why new riders stop riding the moment they sit down. DR 0, which means nobody has linked to it yet, not that it is bad. The newest dated post we could find is from 2017, so read it as an archive.

Trail, packing and endurance

A different reader again: less arena, more miles. There are far fewer blogs in this corner than the size of the trail riding market would suggest, which makes the ones that exist unusually valuable to anyone selling saddlebags.

Horse Trail Chicks (horsetrailchicks.com, DR 10). A celebration of trail riding, including swimming horses in the sea off St. Croix and an argument about horses on multi-use trails. Latest dated post April 2026.

Western Trail Rider (westerntrailrider.com, DR 2.1). Horse and mule packing, camping and trail riding in the western United States, with member photo albums and a photo of the day. Community-run and dated to 2024 on the front page.

Go the Distance Endurance (gopony.me, DR 6). An endurance riding blog that came back in July 2026 after a long gap, with the author explaining why. If you want to reach endurance riders, there are very few blogs to choose from and this is one.

Farm, barn and rescue blogs

Written by people who keep horses rather than people who compete on them. The problems are fencing, footing, flies and weather, and the readership is the largest and least served in the whole equine world.

The Backyard Horse Blog (thebackyardhorseblog.com, DR 15). “All about keeping horses at home.” Weather, footing, heat waves, hay. The most consistent poster in this list, with entries on 31 July and 1 September 2026 and a very deep archive.

Your Horse Farm (yourhorsefarm.com, DR 25). Barn organisation, plug-in versus solar fence chargers, fly management, end-of-summer task lists. Practical and updated monthly through August 2026.

Heart of Phoenix (heartofphoenix.org, DR 24). The blog of an Appalachian horse rescue, mixing education posts (what to look for when buying) with event notices, including its own fun show in August 2026. Rescue blogs are a category of their own and this is the most active one we found.

Equine care, behaviour and nutrition

This is where the word equine actually gets used. Vets, farriers and nutritionists say equine; riders say horse. Three of the eight below are independent nutritionists with no feed-brand affiliation, and we have put them ahead of the brand blog on purpose.

The Equine Documentalist (theequinedocumentalist.com, DR 34). Yogi Sharp, a farrier and PhD candidate in farriery science, on hoof assessment and evidence-based care. Runs a hoof proportion tool alongside the writing.

The Willing Equine (thewillingequine.com, DR 33). Positive reinforcement and behaviour science, and #2 on Google for equine blogs. The blog explains the method in more depth than the courses page does.

The Educated Equine, at The Equine Institute (equineinstitute.org, DR 31). The blog attached to a set of vet-created horse care courses, ranking #3 for equine blogs. Expect first aid, anatomy and nutrition explainers rather than diary posts.

Equitopia Center (equitopiacenter.com, DR 40). Research-backed welfare and training courses with a blog attached. Undated pages, so we cannot say how often it publishes.

Nutrena's Horse Feed Blog (horsefeedblog.com, DR 37). A brand blog, and it reads like one, but the archive on feeding for topline, metabolic horses and seniors is large. Newest dated post November 2025.

Equine Nutritionist (Clare MacLeod) (equinenutritionist.com, DR 26). An independent registered nutritionist in the UK. The site sells courses, but the free articles are the reason it is here. Pages are undated.

Legacy Equine Nutrition (legacyequinenutrition.com, DR 26). Dr Rachel Mottet's education site, training other people to become nutrition advisors. Independent of any feed brand, which is rarer than it should be in this category.

Revolution Equine Nutrition (revolutionequinenutrition.org, DR 6). Annie Emery's forage-first, no-brand-affiliation consultancy, with posts in June 2026. At DR 6 it is the smallest of the three nutritionists and the most recently updated.

Equestrian news and magazine sites

Not blogs in the personal sense, but they are what the search results return for equestrian blogs, they are where the audience is, and several of them are blog-shaped enough to belong here. They are also the only sites on this page above DR 45, which tells you something about how link equity is distributed in this niche.

Horse & Hound (horseandhound.co.uk, DR 74). The UK weekly. Daily news, results and training advice, updated the morning we checked. If you only read one equestrian news site this is it, and it is also the hardest link on this page to earn.

The Chronicle of the Horse (chronofhorse.com, DR 71). The American equivalent: show results, features and a forum with more traffic than most of the blogs here combined.

Eurodressage (eurodressage.com, DR 68). Dressage news and scores across Europe, with a September 2026 round-up on the front page.

Eventing Nation (eventingnation.com, DR 62). Three-day eventing news, results and commentary. Blog-shaped, with named writers and a running voice, which is why it is here and most results sites are not.

EquiSearch (equisearch.com, DR 61). Expert advice on horse care and riding from the Equine Network. The newest dated item on the front page when we looked was a 2021 press release, so check the article dates before you cite it.

Noëlle Floyd (noellefloyd.com, DR 49). Horse-first education, rider stories and a subscription video arm. More magazine than blog now, and updated through July 2026.

HorsesDaily (horsesdaily.com, DR 48). Dressage and driving news, including national championship coverage from late August 2026.

Dressage-News (dressage-news.com, DR 48). Long-form dressage reporting and opinion, with a September 2026 piece on the front page.

Elisa Wallace Eventing (wallaceeventing.com, DR 19). A five-star eventer and Mustang trainer's own site, with news posts into 2026. Included because rider-athlete sites are where eventing brands actually get mentioned.

TheHorse.com, Horse Illustrated, Practical Horseman, Horse&Rider and Dressage Today are not repeated here because they are covered on the horse training blogs page, or because they blocked the check.

The nine that are gone, and the ten we could not check

Every one of these is still recommended on a page that ranks on Google today: the blanket shop's top twenty, a Feedspot list, or one of the two Chronicle of the Horse forum threads asking for good blogs to read. Every one of them loaded for us on 12 September 2026 and returned a 200. None of them is a horse blog any more, which is the whole argument for checking a list rather than copying one.

Said goodbye or moved. She Moved to Texas (DR 14) opens with what the author calls her last post, a short essay on whether blogs are dead. The Roaming Rider (DR 0.8) has moved to a Blogspot address and says so on the front page. Jumper Nation (DR 36) has a piece titled A Jumper Nation Farewell at the top of its home page.

Hijacked. Behind the Bit (behindthebitblog.com, DR 22), Clover Ledge Farm (DR 21) and Hunky Hanoverian (DR 9) now serve Indonesian-language gambling pages. Marescara (DR 13) is a Chinese betting-app landing page. Riding with Scissors (DR 6) serves Russian-language content about amateur equestrian sport. All five still carry the Domain Rating their years as horse blogs earned them, which is exactly why they were bought.

Compromised. The Refined Rider (DR 7) still has its dressage articles, including a good one on the turn on the forehand, but the front page has a block of gambling text injected into it. Worth knowing before you link to it.

Could not check. TheHorse.com, Horse Illustrated, Equine Wellness Magazine, Anna Blake, the Paulick Report, The Plaid Horse, Horse Class, Barrel Racing Tips, TrailMeister and Young Rider all answered with a 403 or a bot challenge. They are live sites. We simply could not load them the way we loaded the others, so they are not in the table and we are not going to guess at them.

The full list with ratings

Sorted by Domain Rating, highest first. If you are here for a link rather than something to read, this is the column to look at. Every row loaded on 12 September 2026.

• horseandhound.co.uk DR 74, news
• chronofhorse.com DR 71, news
• eurodressage.com DR 68, news
• eventingnation.com DR 62, news
• equisearch.com DR 61, news
• noellefloyd.com DR 49, news
• horsesdaily.com DR 48, news
• dressage-news.com DR 48, news
• equitopiacenter.com DR 40, care and nutrition
• horsefeedblog.com DR 37, care and nutrition
• theequinedocumentalist.com DR 34, care and nutrition
• thewillingequine.com DR 33, care and nutrition
• equineinstitute.org DR 31, care and nutrition
• equinenutritionist.com DR 26, care and nutrition
• legacyequinenutrition.com DR 26, care and nutrition
• equineink.com DR 25, rider diary
• myequestrianstyle.com DR 25, rider diary
• yourhorsefarm.com DR 25, farm, barn and rescue
• heartofphoenix.org DR 24, farm, barn and rescue
• anequestrianlife.com DR 21, rider diary
• timidrider.com DR 21, rider diary
• melnewton.com DR 21, rider diary
• wallaceeventing.com DR 19, news
• thebackyardhorseblog.com DR 15, farm, barn and rescue
• threechestnuts.com DR 13, rider diary
• fatbuckskin.com DR 12, rider diary
• stampyandthebrain.com DR 12, rider diary
• redontheright.com DR 12, rider diary
• cobjockey.com DR 10, rider diary
• beljoeor.com DR 10, rider diary
• horsetrailchicks.com DR 10, trail and endurance
• theblackequestrian.com DR 8, rider diary
• raincoastrider.com DR 7, rider diary
• gopony.me DR 6, trail and endurance
• revolutionequinenutrition.org DR 6, care and nutrition
• westerntrailrider.com DR 2.1, trail and endurance
• urbanequestrianblog.com DR 0, rider diary

What the ratings actually mean

Domain Rating is Ahrefs' 0 to 100 estimate of how strong a domain's backlink profile is. It is not Domain Authority, which is a different tool's different number, and it is not a measure of how good the writing is.

The spread in the horse world is unusual. Most hobby niches we have checked have a cluster of blogs in the DR 20 to 40 band. Horses do not: the news sites sit at 48 to 74, the diaries sit at 0 to 25, and almost nothing lives in between. 19 of the 37 sites here are at DR 24 or below. That means a blog at DR 12 with weekly posts is, for most purposes, a better place to be mentioned than a magazine that ran a press release in 2021 and nothing since.

It also means the hijacked domains are worth watching for. A DR 22 that was a horse blog until last year and is now a slot machine site will still show up in tools as a horse-niche link opportunity. It is not one.

If you want to work with these blogs

Tack brands, feed companies, supplement makers, riding holiday operators and farm equipment sellers all want a mention on a list like this, and most of them send the same email to all 37. That is the fastest way to be ignored by a rider who has been writing about one horse for six years.

Two numbers from our own outreach to publishers are worth knowing. The median human reply arrives in about two and a half hours, and by the end of the first day three quarters of the replies you are ever going to get have arrived. Of the replies that came later, 109 arrived between one and three days out, 62 between three and eight, and only 46 after more than a week. A pitch that has been silent for seven days is finished; sending a reminder to a personal blogger at that point mostly annoys them.

The second thing is to match the pitch to the discipline. An endurance rider and a dressage amateur do not want the same saddle pad review. The templates we send are written to be edited per site for that reason, and the guest post pitch template covers what to change. If you are doing this across a whole niche rather than one site, our guide to blogger outreach tools and the AI outreach write-up explain how we keep the volume up without sending the same email twice. The wider picture is in how to build backlinks.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best equine blogs to follow?

It depends on what you ride. For a personal diary, Fat Buckskin in a Little Suit, Raincoast Rider and Cob Jockey were all posting in the summer of 2026. For keeping horses at home, The Backyard Horse Blog and Your Horse Farm. For feeding, the three independent nutritionists in this list (Clare MacLeod, Rachel Mottet and Annie Emery) are more useful than any brand blog. For daily news, Horse & Hound and The Chronicle of the Horse are the two strongest sites here by some distance.

Are these horse blogs still active?

All 37 loaded on 12 September 2026 and returned HTTP 200. Twenty-five of them show a 2026 date on the front page or blog index. The ones that do not are named in the list with their newest date: Urban Equestrian 2017, Red on the Right 2021, The Black Equestrian and EquiSearch 2022, Stampy and the Brain late 2023, Western Trail Rider 2024, Three Chestnuts September 2025, Nutrena's blog November 2025, Dr. Mel Newton December 2025, and the two nutrition consultancies and Equitopia publish undated pages. A live domain is not a live writer, so the dates are given so you can judge.

What is the difference between equine, equestrian and horse blogs?

In practice, nothing. Equine is the vet and nutrition vocabulary, equestrian is the sport and lifestyle vocabulary, and horse is what everyone actually says. Google treats the three searches as overlapping rather than identical, which is why this page uses all three, and why the vet-run sites here call themselves equine while the rider diaries call themselves equestrian.

Why are some horse blogs from older lists missing?

Because they are no longer horse blogs. Of the domains that older roundups and forum recommendation threads pointed at and that loaded for us, nine are gone in one way or another: She Moved to Texas published a farewell post, The Roaming Rider moved to a Blogspot address, Jumper Nation has a farewell on its front page, and five domains (Behind the Bit, Clover Ledge Farm, Hunky Hanoverian, Marescara and Riding with Scissors) now serve gambling or unrelated foreign-language content under the old name. The Refined Rider still has its dressage articles but has gambling text injected into the front page.

How do you pitch a horse blog?

Read what they actually ride first. A dressage amateur, a trail rider in Arizona and an endurance rider are three different readers, and a pitch that does not know which one it is talking to gets deleted. Across our own outreach the median human reply comes back in about two and a half hours and three quarters of replies arrive inside a day, so if nothing has come back after a week the answer is no and a follow-up will not change it.

Why does this list show Domain Rating?

Because the other horse blog roundups do not, and it is the one number that tells you whether anyone links to a site. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' 0 to 100 estimate of a domain's backlink strength. It is not a quality score: the two best-written diaries in this list sit under DR 15. It is included so that someone looking for a link, a sponsorship or a review knows what they are looking at before they write.

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