Unbridled and Legendary: Equine Stories

She fell off the horse at six years old, and her mother gave her a choice: go in the house and cry or get back on. Muffy Knox chose to get back on, and she never stopped. In this conversation with Dr. Chad Hewlett, Muffy traces eight decades of life in the saddle, from a barefoot childhood on a Calgary-area farm in the 1940s to becoming one of Alberta's most respected equine educators, coaching four 4-H clubs simultaneously, teaching the first certified Western coaching program at...

Everything happens for a reason, especially when horses are involved. In this episode, Chad Hewlett sits down with Taylor Manning to trace her journey from growing up in Edson, Alberta, surrounded by barrel racing, to becoming a young CFR competitor with a deep respect for training, pressure, and perseverance. Taylor reflects on the horses that shaped her, including Silver, Tivio, Matlock, and Bling, while giving credit to the strong women who guided her, especially her mom, Shell...

What separates the average from the legendary when talent is the same? Dr. Chad Hewlett shares a powerful early career story about how humility, mentorship, and relentless repetition shaped his journey as a young veterinarian. Working in Oklahoma under the guidance of farrier legend Mark Milster, Chad witnessed firsthand the discipline that true mastery requires. Night after night, Milster forged horseshoes, often discarding hours of work in pursuit of improvement. Through t...

Before the accident, Brian Coleman was already a legend. Nine world titles. Forty years behind the lines. A client roster that reads like a Forbes list. But on an ordinary spring morning in 2022, a runaway pair of draft horses put him in a ditch with a broken neck, three shattered vertebrae, a collapsed lung, and eight weeks until the Calgary Stampede. What happened next is the part nobody outside the draft horse world knows and it's the part that defines everyth...

The barn has always been a classroom…and if you've spent enough time in it, you already know that. Dr. Chad Hewlett, founder of Energy Equine Veterinary Services and one of Canada's foremost performance horse veterinarians, opens not with a mission statement, but with a provocation: the horse world doesn't just teach horsemanship…it forges people. In this debut episode, Dr. Hewlett lays out the philosophical architecture of everything this podcast is built on, drawing from 30-plus...