Colic is a general term that simply means abdominal pain. It’s usually a gut problem, but sometimes may be due to other issues. It’s not always easy to make an accurate diagnosis when examining the horse. Sometimes, even with modern technology, we can’t determine exactly what’s wrong, but veterinarians today have many tools that can help figure it out.
Continue reading …No matter if you are traveling to a horse show, or just through life, there is always that level of unexpected that just seems to happen. And those unexpected moments don’t discriminate. Everyone has a travel blooper story, and horse people are no exception.
Continue reading …As a young girl growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, Ingrid Miller spent her days on horseback. She and her first horse, a bay mare named Trixie who “jigged everywhere we went,” would take off in the morning, racing through the walnut and pear orchards as fast as Trixie could go, ending up swimming in the creek or exploring the countryside for the day. The pair wouldn’t return home until nearly dusk. By age 12, Ingrid had made what she jokingly calls a “fatal mistake”–attending her first horse show.
Continue reading …Not many people know the origin story of Harris Leather & Silverworks. The business that outfits top horses and riders with handcrafted saddles and intricate silverwork first got its start, like most family businesses do, around the kitchen table.
Continue reading …When you look at a list of Beth Case’s career accomplishments: 35 Congress Championships, 14 AQHA World Championships, 47 NSBA World Championships, and 16 NSBA High Point titles, the numbers are so staggering they’re almost hard to comprehend.
Continue reading …Regularly a treasured guest at weddings, graduation parties, and baby showers, Gordon lives up to philosophy that his role with The Equine Chronicle is to build a sense of family between the publication and exhibitors, owners, and trainers.
Continue reading …A few nights before her family’s historic dispersal sale, Kristen Galyean Glover awoke in a full sweat, having dreamed that no one showed up for the history-making auction. She’d find out days later that her dream was going to be far from reality.
Continue reading …It’s a phenomenon that’s ignited a resurgence in western culture around the country, and arguably around the globe. Few in the equine industry today are unfamiliar with Taylor Sheridan’s sphere of influence through his Academy Award-nominated films and the hugely popular television series, Yellowstone, and spinoffs 1883, and 1923, among many others.
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