By Sophie King I started riding at Carson Training Center with my trainers, John and Tye Carson, three years ago. When I started riding there, I was so shy, and I didn’t really like to talk. I remember Tye telling me one day after my lessons, “You know you can talk right?” That next week […]
By EllaMae Reiff , DTN Content Editor Copyright (2024) DTN, LLC. Used with permission. COLUMBUS, Ohio (DTN) — There’s nothing quite like the crisp fall air mixed with the unmistakable excitement of the All American Quarter Horse Congress. Held in Columbus, Ohio, this event is the largest single-breed horse show in the world, and this […]
Continue reading …Sometimes the billet breaks. It was her first rodeo. And the billet broke, the saddle came off, and she bit the dust. Literally. When your ten year old dreams about racing barrels in a real rodeo, you don’t tell her she can’t enter the hometown roundup when it rolls around. You might know without a […]
Continue reading …By EC Writer Elizabeth Arnold: When was the last time you rode your horse just for the pure joy and thrill of it? No goal to accomplish, no problem to fix, no skill to master. Just you and your horse under the sky and on top of the ground. We talk so often […]
Continue reading …An EC Blog by Shannon Rafacz: Do you remember the first show you went to, and you looked at all of the prizes and awards that you “might” win? A saddle maybe? Maybe a belt buckle? Well, for me, I was 12 and it was a trophy. I was at the NRHA futurity and with […]
Continue reading …By Julia S. Adams, Goldun Custom Creations “To the horse who came next: You enter a freshly bedded, ready-made stall with all the fixings, not knowing it still bears the name plate of the horse that lived there before you. You wear hand-me-down halters, fly masks, blankets, and items with writing on them that that horse […]
Continue reading …This weekend, Lindsey McCracken of Houston, Texas, learned she and her horse, Its Hubbout Time, earned the 2024 APHA World Show Reserve All-Around Amateur Solid Paint-Bred title! The DIY Amateur and her mom, Anne McCracken, had taken the 2016 buckskin solid gelding by Hubba Hubba Huntin and out of Pepsis Carmel Queen to the 2024 […]
Continue reading …By Kathleen Beckham of Ethos Equine: Years ago, I had a baby horse, and when he was about 18 months old, I had the opportunity to have an equine chiropractor work on him. He was wiggly and squirrelly, and I apologized to the chiropractor for that. “That’s okay,” she said, “Little babies haven’t learned how to […]
Continue reading …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 …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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