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Entertains pony-mad youngsters with a fun-filled mixture of riding tips, horse-care hints, celebrity features, pen-pal pges, contests and three or more beautiful color posters. Aimed at horse-owning pre-teens, and horse-less riding school kids, the magazine's goal is to teach young people how to look after their horses properly and how to improve their riding skills safely.

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• Formats: Magazine Subscription, Print

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Who Reads Young Rider?
Pony-mad youngsters have their own magazine filled with features, facts, photos, and fun stuff about horses and ponies. Aimed at kids aged 8-15, Young Rider is the only glossy, full-color equestrian magazine for young people in the United States, and includes easy-to-read articles on improving their riding skills, grooming, horse health, show-ring secrets, and much more including three or more posters in every issue.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Pony Pen Pals: Make horsey friends!
• Horsey Happenings: Readers find out what's going on in the horse world.
• Horse and Pony Problems: Readers' questions answered - help for a horsey hassle.
• Short Story: Entertaining fictional stories that readers can relate to.
• Western Lessons and English Lessons: Tips to improve your riding.
• Ask Dr. Julie: Veterinarian Dr. Julie Fox answers readers' horsey health questions.
• Me & My Horse: Pictures of the readers and their horses.
• Posters: Three posters of beautiful horses and ponies in every issue.
• Features: Each information-packed issue includes: English and Western training articles to help you become a better rider, advice from the best riders and trainers to help you with common problems, tips on everything from grooming to feeding, and spotlights on inspirational equestrians. Recent feature topics include deworming tips, trailering your horse, camp guide, horsey summer jobs, and making your own horse treats.

Past Issues:

Contributors:
Our editors and writers are equestrians themselves, each skilled in riding and keeping horses. They are passionate about the lifestyle in the same way our readers are, and they share their extensive knowledge with the Young Rider readers to help ensure their riding experience is the best that it can be.

Magazine Layout
Young Rider contains articles that are easy to understand and read, and every page features color pictures showing kids riding and looking after their horses and ponies. It is designed to be fun and interactive. Every issue includes at least three beautiful posters.

Comparisons to Other Magazines
While other equestrian publications are filled with clinical articles, Young Rider seeks to educate and entertain. We strive to make riding an enjoyable experience for young riders of all abilities. Each issue is filled with fun facts, quizzes, games, and opportunities to win prizes. It is the only equestrian publication in the United States specifically for children. Readers also get exclusive subscribers-only access to our website forums.

Advertising
Advertising is relevant to the magazine, offering products and services that would be of interest to young horse and pony lovers. An Ad Index is included in each issue featuring the page number of the advertiser and the website url.

Awards
The United States Equestrian Foundation, the national governing body for equestrian sport in the United States, has recognized Young Rider for excellence with a Pegasus Award for Media as Overall Publication of the year in 2007.

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

71 of 77 people found the following review helpful.
Show your Welsh Pony every weekend? This is your magazine.
By Linda
I received a subscription of this magazine for one year, and although it has its good points, there were enough bad points to cause me not to renew. The magazine has tons of beautiful, full color posters of beautiful horses and ponies. I really enjoyed the quizzes and short stories, as well as some of the features. But my problem with this magazine was that it seems to lean towards the well-to-do little girls riding Welsh Ponies that are trained to show every weekend. I haven't read an issue yet that didn't contain an article about 'winning lots of ribbons in shows.' There is no focus on the other side of horsemanship: caring for your horse, keeping up your stable, and health care. It is simply assumed the 'young riders' will hand their lovely ponies away to their grooms and saunter off to hang their ribbons on the walls of their bedrooms, which will, presumably, also have the mega posters featured in each issue of the magazine.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Contest-Lover
By A Customer
I love Young Rider magazine! Anything you ever wanted to know about horses and ponies is in this magazine. There are a lot of contests, usually about five to six per magazine, that you can participate in. The best part for me is that you don't have to be "18 or older to enter". I enter every contest I can, and Young Rider is my best opportunity for contests. Plus, the prizes are great, even if you don't own a horse! You can even send a letter and get a penpal! I don't have a horse, but I love this magazine anyway, and it's always good to know about horses in case you ever drive by one. You'll know to slow down instead of just zooming by. You can learn the names of parts of the horse and equipment, as well as getting introduced to books and authors who have written books about horses and ponies. The only bad part is waiting for the next issue to come in the mail. All in all, this is a great magazine that I encourage anyone who likes horses to get!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent!
By A 12-year old magazine reader
This magazine is excellent! Offers horse care tips whether you own a horse or not. Helpful riding tips. Answers horsey propblems. You can win neat horse stuff. For kids who ride and don't ride. For begginers all the way up to advanced. I LOVE THIS MAGAZINE. I can't wait for the next issue to arrive.