Kendall LaVelle – EC Youth Profile
January 7, 2021 Comments Off on Kendall LaVelle – EC Youth Profile
I had just started showing the western all-around events earlier this year and only started showing trail in June. I stayed up until midnight practicing the pattern the night before I showed. I was a little nervous before the class because I thought I would do bad. I started to feel confident about half-way through the pattern. When it was over, I was happy with my go.
Continue reading …The Best of Both Worlds – Multi-breed Competitors
January 5, 2021 Comments Off on The Best of Both Worlds – Multi-breed Competitors
The saying, “the best of both worlds,” implies a win-win situation. It means to be part of two aspects of life that are very different, yet quite the same, and to enjoy the best features of both. For horse owners, having the best of both worlds simply describes loving more than one horse breed and even the slightest differences each brings to the industry.
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Rebecca Figueroa is going into her sophomore year at SMU having navigated a truly unique freshman year. The excitement of making new friends, delving into college studies, and riding on the SMU Equestrian Team was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Bob and Karen Johnson have enjoyed tremendous success in Ranch Riding over the past several years. For them, it’s a class that showcases everything a horse should be: pretty, balanced, broke, fluid and, most of all, happy. Between the two of them, they have shown in Roping, Cutting, Reining, Western Pleasure, and Halter, but Ranch Riding is their passion.
Continue reading …Double The Horses, Double the Fun – AZ Fall Championship Sees Unprecedented Growth
November 27, 2020 Comments Off on Double The Horses, Double the Fun – AZ Fall Championship Sees Unprecedented Growth
If you build it, they will come. Arizona Quarter Horse followed the call and doubled the size of its already popular AZ Fall Championship. In so doing, exhibitor dreams became reality.
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Taking advantage of the global pandemic that put a halt to horse showing for a few months, the American Quarter Horse Association used that downtime to develop programming and rules for six new classes, five of them to be seen in most parts of the world.
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Click here to read the complete article 332 – November/December, 2020 By Delores Kuhlwein “If your riding and handling of horses begins and ends at the mounting block, you may become a rider, but never a horseman,” once wrote renowned author C.W. Anderson. But somewhere along the way, our mentality shifted. We began allowing others […]
Continue reading …Revelations of a Middle-Aged Amateur
November 21, 2020 Comments Off on Revelations of a Middle-Aged Amateur
A bunch of whiners, I thought to my thirty-something self, as the 50 and Over Amateurs raised quite a bit of commotion. The speaker in the arena had just crackled with the announcer’s voice, relaying the request to combine the two Amateur age divisions, and you would have thought the end of the world was coming.
Continue reading …Top 10 Horse Apps Every Rider Must Have
November 19, 2020 Comments Off on Top 10 Horse Apps Every Rider Must Have
Nowadays, it seems as if there is an app for everything. You can have food delivered to your home, rent a car, and even learn how to meditate with smart phone applications that number into the thousands. Wouldn’t it be great if there were apps specifically designed for equestrians? Well, there are! Read on to discover the top 10 horse apps every equestrian needs that will make for a smoother and easier ride.
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Anne Wilson’s parents were optimistic that a Radio Flyer rocking horse would be enough to satisfy their daughter’s horse-loving dreams. It was not. Despite living in the city with no place to keep a horse, Wilson’s persistence would eventually lead her family to purchase a gelding named Prince, whom she became the proud owner of in third grade. But her horse-owning trajectory was not smooth sailing from there. Just six months after Prince joined the family, Wilson learned a particularly tough life lesson not to test your parent’s patience, because Prince was sold.
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