You know how when you ride a line to a distance, and it doesn’t work out, so you come again but try a different track to see what the outcome will be? That’s what the last two weeks have been like for 17-year-old Isabelle Mesiarik and her large green pony Defying Gravity. Isabelle had a […]
The Split Rock Jumping Tour’s new Fort Worth International CSI4*-W has been canceled for 2020. One of eight events in the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Series’ North American League, the Fort Worth International CSI4*-W will return with a full schedule in 2021. “We made every effort to find a way to hold the event […]
In this age of social media, there’s this facade that no one ever fails anymore. Everyone looks perfect in pictures, and that’s especially true in the horse world. Because we only get a small glimpse into a person’s life through a picture or post, we tend to believe the biggest lie: That person is perfect! […]
Shortly before Labor Day 2019, Susie Lones received a message from the people who organize the Arabian Feedlot and Auction Horse Team Rescue. There was a chestnut mare at Sexton’s Horse & Mule Company in Sneedville, Tennessee, whose days were numbered. Could she help? Lones has rescued horses and ponies from feedlots since the 1990s, […]
On one of the last green spaces in urban Los Angeles’ 13th district sits a newly rebuilt barn that houses 15 horses, a flock of chickens, a handful of rabbits and three goats. But those 2.5 acres are also home to much more. In the past 12 years, more than 1,000 at-risk teens and young […]
Take a good look at Sonnet Precious, and you probably won’t notice anything unusual. A plain bay Quarter Horse, the mare doesn’t stand out from the crowd when she competes in western dressage or at English schooling shows. But get close enough to give “Sonnet” a pat on the neck, and you might jump back […]
The cancellation of USEF Pony Finals two days before the start of the event was hard on children, their families and their trainers. Even Jill Hechtman, whose daughter Emma Hechtman has just graduated from ponies to full-sized jumpers, felt the disappointment. “I’m a physician, and I lost a colleague to COVID that day,” recalled Jill. […]
A day after the curtains closed on the 2018 Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida, operation “across the pond” was in full swing at Lillie Keenan’s Chansonette Farm. As the crew loaded the last of the barn equipment on a truck for its departure to Europe, Super Sox, Keenan’s Hanoverian gelding (Salito—Shalima, Silvio I), watched […]
When it comes to bits, Dutchess Carola has always been a tad persnickety. The 9-year-old mare makes it obvious when she’s displeased with what’s in her mouth by refusing to go forward, head tossing and occasionally rearing. Owner Morgan Ashby and her trainer Allen Nabors thought they’d solved the problem with a leather bit until […]
When my husband interviews veterinary candidates for a position at his clinic, he often asks them if they can cook. That may seem like an odd question for a potential veterinarian, but Greg says that people who can cook have learned to plan, execute and improvise, and that makes them good veterinarians. I believe the […]
You know how when you ride a line to a distance, and it doesn’t work out, so you come again but try a different track to see what the outcome will be? That’s what the last two weeks have been like for 17-year-old Isabelle Mesiarik and her large green pony Defying Gravity. Isabelle had a […]
The Split Rock Jumping Tour’s new Fort Worth International CSI4*-W has been canceled for 2020. One of eight events in the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ Series’ North American League, the Fort Worth International CSI4*-W will return with a full schedule in 2021. “We made every effort to find a way to hold the event […]
In this age of social media, there’s this facade that no one ever fails anymore. Everyone looks perfect in pictures, and that’s especially true in the horse world. Because we only get a small glimpse into a person’s life through a picture or post, we tend to believe the biggest lie: That person is perfect! […]
Shortly before Labor Day 2019, Susie Lones received a message from the people who organize the Arabian Feedlot and Auction Horse Team Rescue. There was a chestnut mare at Sexton’s Horse & Mule Company in Sneedville, Tennessee, whose days were numbered. Could she help? Lones has rescued horses and ponies from feedlots since the 1990s, […]
On one of the last green spaces in urban Los Angeles’ 13th district sits a newly rebuilt barn that houses 15 horses, a flock of chickens, a handful of rabbits and three goats. But those 2.5 acres are also home to much more. In the past 12 years, more than 1,000 at-risk teens and young […]
Take a good look at Sonnet Precious, and you probably won’t notice anything unusual. A plain bay Quarter Horse, the mare doesn’t stand out from the crowd when she competes in western dressage or at English schooling shows. But get close enough to give “Sonnet” a pat on the neck, and you might jump back […]
The cancellation of USEF Pony Finals two days before the start of the event was hard on children, their families and their trainers. Even Jill Hechtman, whose daughter Emma Hechtman has just graduated from ponies to full-sized jumpers, felt the disappointment. “I’m a physician, and I lost a colleague to COVID that day,” recalled Jill. […]
A day after the curtains closed on the 2018 Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida, operation “across the pond” was in full swing at Lillie Keenan’s Chansonette Farm. As the crew loaded the last of the barn equipment on a truck for its departure to Europe, Super Sox, Keenan’s Hanoverian gelding (Salito—Shalima, Silvio I), watched […]
When it comes to bits, Dutchess Carola has always been a tad persnickety. The 9-year-old mare makes it obvious when she’s displeased with what’s in her mouth by refusing to go forward, head tossing and occasionally rearing. Owner Morgan Ashby and her trainer Allen Nabors thought they’d solved the problem with a leather bit until […]
When my husband interviews veterinary candidates for a position at his clinic, he often asks them if they can cook. That may seem like an odd question for a potential veterinarian, but Greg says that people who can cook have learned to plan, execute and improvise, and that makes them good veterinarians. I believe the […]
