We received the most adorable video from an Equine Chronicle reader. It features the daughter of horse trainer Joe Engle and Mandi Knowles grooming multiple AQHA World and Congress Champion Halter horse, RPL My Te Cheerful. Apparently, she’s getting “Henry” fancy for the contest.”
Continue reading …He wasn’t a large horse, but something in his eyes told me he was special. He wasn’t favored to win, but he was in the biggest horse race of the whole day. It had a $50,000 purse.
Continue reading …Aitken removed a lipoma the size of a grapefruit, along with 18 feet of intestine that was necrotic, due to the lack of blood supply.
Continue reading …This regional championship features three days packed with a variety of classes, starting with trail at noon on June 3. AQHA judges Tina Anderson, Jim Dudley, Matt Howell and Mark Sheridian will judge the event.
Continue reading …Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Continue reading …We would like to congratulate our friends and APHA horse trainers, Jeffery and Jenna Gibbs, following the birth of their first son, Jackson Adam Gibbs. Jackson was born at 3:10 pm on May 10th, 2016 weighing eight pounds three ounces and measuring 21.75 inches long.
Continue reading …Special Event: Blind Horsemanship Challenge
To be held on Saturday following Amateur Horsemanship. Participants won’t see the pattern until they are in the arena. Competitors will face the out gate, so they won’t see other competitors work their pattern.
Open to all Non-Pros. Entry Fee: $20
I think, as you lose more horses in life, it gets easier on some obscure level; but, it seems to taint you forever. In certain ways, you are even more fragile and loving about your animals, but much harder and stoic about them as well. You almost can’t put your finger on exactly how, but guardedness is forever present, perhaps after that sweet innocence is lost. Or maybe that’s just how it affects me.
Continue reading …“Locking compression plates (LCPs) have been a game changer because they effectively change how the repair occurs and are roughly four times stronger than the now out of date dynamic compression plates. Stability is paramount in any repair and LCPs, with their improved strength, translate to improved stability,” he said.
Continue reading …When up-and-coming, young horse trainer Aaron Moses jogged into the Congress pen last year aboard a then 2-year-old gelding named Zippin A Breeze, the judges weren’t the only ones to take notice.
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