Why We Started This Podcast
We worked together for years—Clair an independent equine nutritionist with a PhD and Michelle a horse media editor who assigned her article topics. We always found, when work was done, we had more to talk about: Our redheaded horses, a love for dressage, the last clinic we rode in, and our desire to help improve horses' care and welfare. This podcast is an extension of those conversations. We invite you to ride along as we talk about feeding horses, new equine research—more dressage than you probably want to hear about (we apologize in advance!)—and life with horses in general. Our hope is to offer you a deeper understanding of horse care along with practical tips you can start using today.Episodes
About Your Hosts
Combined we have one doctorate degree, two lifetimes with horses, five horses to feed, thousands of published equine-related articles, and more lessons learned the hard way than we can count.
Clair Thunes, PhD
Clair is an equine nutritionist, busy Pony Club mom, and a dressage and eventing enthusiast. She also owns Clarity Equine Nutrition, an independent consulting company based in Gilbert, Arizona. Her services include working with owners and veterinarians to create diets for individual horses, ranging from retired pasture pets to Olympic athletes. She also formulates feeds and supplements for companies, and there’s a good chance you’ve scooped something she helped develop into your horse’s bucket. Clair taught equine nutrition and physiology as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis, and is a highly sought after speaker. Clair shares a large pony with her daughter and competes in dressage.
Michelle Anderson
Michelle Anderson is a lifelong horseperson who spent two decades writing for and editing well-known equine magazines and websites. In 2022, she started Cadence Marketing + Media to support equine-related brands and delivery quality educational content to horse owners. Her clients include equine veterinary hospitals, trainers, boarding stables, and businesses offering professional services for the horse industry. Her own herd lives at home, in Bend, Oregon, and includes an aspiring FEI dressage mare, a Warmblood-Arabian-cross who mare who prefers desert trails over arena circles, and a retired Quarter Horse gelding Michelle bred, raised, and (her husband points out) has been feeding for the past 20-plus years. Michelle’s goal is to educate owners so they can best care for the horses they love.