By Amy Grohoski-Morris “Why do you allow your daughter to ride horses when it’s so expensive and time consuming? I wouldn’t do it.” I wish I had a dime for every time someone has asked me this question over the past 9 years. I’d probably be able to pay off a month of training […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – How Do Horse Lovers Persevere?
January 21, 2023 Comments Off on EC Blog – How Do Horse Lovers Persevere?
By Delores Kuhlwein, Online Editor The last couple of weeks have been rough. We shared more equine obituary news than I could digest. Early this week, I was thinking how grateful I was to have “better news” to share, and then it hit me that people were still suffering from last week’s sad news. I […]
Continue reading …A Loving Tribute to All Time Vandal
January 12, 2023 Comments Off on A Loving Tribute to All Time Vandal
By Lauren Maupin This isn’t something I ever thought I would be writing. Maybe in 20 years when he was old and grey, but here I am. It is with absolute devastation that I have to announce that due to an unforeseen complication coming out of a routine procedure Graffiti had to be humanely euthanized. I […]
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By Emily Tuma of 17 Hands Fit This guy is my best bud. He can be a literal pain in my Butt (like I still have the hematoma or scar tissue from our incident in May that probably will be there for life) but goodness, I love him so much. We […]
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By Chelsea E Carlson It is hard to find the right words in the face of shock, denial, grief, and loss. Yesterday evening I received a call no one wants to get. In the blink of an eye, and in the day to day monotony, all it takes is for one thing to go slightly […]
Continue reading …EC Blog Post – A Team Worth Believing In
December 15, 2022 Comments Off on EC Blog Post – A Team Worth Believing In
By Michelle Prather-Merkley At the beginning of the 2022 NCHA Futurity, Taylor Sheridan, the co-creator of the mega-hit Yellowstone, implored the audience at Will Rogers Coliseum to not let their babies grow up to be plastic surgeons, the world has enough of them. He said we need more cowboys and, as was the case as […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – If a Horse Show Girl Buys A New Felt Hat
December 10, 2022 Comments Off on EC Blog – If a Horse Show Girl Buys A New Felt Hat
By Sarah Mapp Cullins, mom to Emily Cullins with My Midas Maserati, pictured above. If a horse show girl buys herself a new felt hat, she will ask her Mama to buy her matching chaps. If you buy her matching chaps, they won’t actually match and you will send them back several times until […]
Continue reading …EC Blog: Join the Club – The Hottest Breeze Loses His Battle With His Club Foot
November 26, 2022 Comments Off on EC Blog: Join the Club – The Hottest Breeze Loses His Battle With His Club Foot
Last time you might have read about Houdini, aka The Hottest Breeze, in August 2021, he had just won a World Championship despite his struggle with his club foot and its complications. Original story from 2021: http://www.equinechronicle.com/how-you-react-when-everything-falls-apart-is-what-defines-a-true-champion/ His owner, Julia Adams, reports that in 2022, that Houdini began to lose ground with his battle with […]
Continue reading …EC Blog Post -From Behind the Mike with Peter Cannizzaro at The APHA/WCHA Halter Million
October 28, 2022 Comments Off on EC Blog Post -From Behind the Mike with Peter Cannizzaro at The APHA/WCHA Halter Million
Having a good time here in Fort Worth at the Paint Halter Million show. Wow! Some REALLY quality halter horses!! Fun seeing some of the stallions up close. I’ve been arriving “with the sun” shortly before 7 each day. I had a chance to sit outside a bit this morning, enjoying a little less heat […]
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Don’t Quit By Jamie Walters, at Reining By the Bay A few weeks ago, I had the worst ride of my career. Yes, after six years of showing and thinking surely my worst rides were behind me, I hit a dirt-eating, rock-crunching, graveling-licking show ride that makes me cringe to even think about it. It […]
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