“Horse trainers have little time to step back, take a breath and really analyze their business and collaborate with their peers. By bringing a variety of trainers together with financial planning, law, insurance, and equine health care professionals, we can create synergy that ultimately is good for the equine community, including the trainers, their clients and the horses in their care.”

No stranger to setting new records Topsail Whiz officially became the National Reining Horse Association’s (NRHA) first Ten Million Dollar Sire. The late Topsail Whiz soared to uncharted territory when he became NRHA’s first Six Million Dollar Sire in 2009 and continued to surpass others by achieving the first Seven Million Dollar Sire status in 2010, Eight Million Dollar Sire status in 2011, and Nine Million Dollar Sire status in 2012.

“This sale set several new records for the online auctions we have done since December 2012. Our new high seller brought $30,100. We registered 276 bidders and had 71,855 page views for the online catalog by the end of bidding.”

Twenty-nine adult trainers spent the weekend showcasing their assigned Mustang’s skills in the arena and down the horse trails of Norco. The horses were virtually untouched before the training period began in April.

“She was an incredible character — she loved to drink beer, eat cherry pie, and sleep in the tents of her comrades. She was a true marine!”

If you see a service member out and about this Memorial Day weekend, be sure to take a moment to thank them!

The Green Country Paint Horse Club has developed the Ashley Marie Huntington Memorial Royalty Scholarship contest in honor of the late Ashley Huntington, an APHA member who died October 2013 from Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Sheik Island Farm was built by Blackburn Architects in 1997 for Kimberly Wilson and her father Patrick Michaels, both passionate equestrians.

A fatty substance called sebum, secreted from the sebaceous glands in your horse’s skin, increases when the diet is higher in fat. It coats the hair, making it reflect the sun’s rays.

A new YouTube video from SouthArabians.com shows just how easy it is to alter a sale photo of a horse by perfecting conformation flaws with just a few clicks of a button. The title of the video, “Photo Magic- Create a Superstar in 2 Minutes,” is meant as “a practical guide to show you how easy it is to alter pictures… and trick you with them.”