EC Blog – Finding a Silver Lining In the Clouds for Ayvah and Zippos Little Tuf
May 30, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – Finding a Silver Lining In the Clouds for Ayvah and Zippos Little Tuf
An EC Blog by Jenny Guetchidjian: “I would like to share Ayvah Guetchidjian with you all,” says Jenny Guetchidjian. “Ayvah is my stepdaughter and she is four years old, turning five next month. Yesterday was to be her very first horse show, a local open show. She was going to show Leadline through the Beaver […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – Litte Girl Horse Dreams Never Die
May 28, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – Litte Girl Horse Dreams Never Die
An EC blog by Joan Ames Little girl horse dreams never die. She never stops looking for the pretty horse. The talented horse. The one that will take her to the winner’s circle. But there is a lot that gets in her way. School. Job. Relationship. Marriage. Children. Just life in general. She puts it […]
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From the AQHA Blog: By Suzanne Couch I have been showing over 35 years with AQHA and other shows. Over my 35-plus years of showing, I have seen tons of horse show dogs, but only three horse show cats and one of them was mine. May of 2008, I acquired a kitten from a local farmer. The kitten was […]
Continue reading …The Courage and Will to Live of Cow 9035
April 15, 2024 Comments Off on The Courage and Will to Live of Cow 9035
An EC Blog by Loyning Angus: Something pretty amazing happened today. One of my very favorite cows, 9035, never came off the winter range. The last time I saw her was sometime around Thanksgiving. She had just vanished without a trace. I spent the better part of a day hunting for her on a couple […]
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Raising A Horse Girl Written by Kara LaBrie @ourfitchfarm Recipe for raising a “horse girl” ……. You bring them home from the hospital and instead of keeping them home you let them breathe in the smell of horses every chance you get…. Then at a few months old you prop them up in […]
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By Megan Arszman for Tough1.com Horses and the Solar Eclipse If you’re a fan of our social media, you may have seen our annual April Fool’s Day post. In case you didn’t, it looked a little something like this: JT International, the parent company of Tough1, is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and if you’re a […]
Continue reading …I Try – An EC Blog by Jessica Straus Boppe
March 20, 2024 Comments Off on I Try – An EC Blog by Jessica Straus Boppe
I think we are all feeling the loss of two young professionals. Beneath the smiles, the pictures with tricolors, and the palpable excitement, there often lies much that remains unspoken. I’ve experienced my fair share of highs and lows. A month ago, events left me pretty down. Lately, I’m stoked for what’s to come! Life […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – The Hamstring, aka “The Glitch”
February 22, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – The Hamstring, aka “The Glitch”
By Ashton Brandt Author Ashton Brandt was given a freshman writing assignment to write about a life changing event but with a twist (hence the title, The Glitch). She wrote the story of her heart horse, Zip, tearing his hamstring last year prior to the Pinto World Championship Show, but she allowed Zip to tell […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – To All the Students We’ve Loved Before
February 13, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – To All the Students We’ve Loved Before
EC Blog by Cecily Clark and Matt Brown of East West Training Stables in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania To all the students we’ve loved before (past and present), There’s a lot we’ve worked on together over the years, and many lessons we hope you’ve learned as our students. Many technical, many philosophical, and many that […]
Continue reading …EC Blog: Understanding Why Sharing Screenshotted Images Equals Theft
February 7, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog: Understanding Why Sharing Screenshotted Images Equals Theft
From Kelsey Keathly of Norfleet Marketing & Photography Hey y’all! Let’s talk about something near & dear to my heart: sharing screenshot images from a horse show. If you’ve never worked as a horse show photographer, you may not truly understand everything that goes into the job, and why we say that you cannot […]
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