A backyard horse owner named Jane boards a few horses during the winter months. Jane’s facility has box stalls and an indoor arena, making it desirable during the snowy winter months where Jane lives. Jane doesn’t view her activities as a business. She views herself as earning some extra money and helping friends.

One theory of how the modern horse was introduced to North America is by way of the Spanish conquistadors. The story goes that in 1519, the conquistadors gifted a handful of horses to settlers in Mexico and New Mexico.

It has been just over twelve hours since seventeen-year-old Sabrina Janis left the dry, desert warmth of Scottsdale, Arizona to return home to the frigid winter of Massachusetts.

When your full brother is one of the most decorated Western Pleasure horses of all time (A Certain Vino), it comes as no surprise that you too have an incredible amount of athleticism and charisma.

AQHA Most Valuable Professional of the Year in 2015, Leslie Lange had a childhood that most in the horse world would envy. While citified and suburban Americans spend millions of dollars each year at guest ranches to have the true Western experience, this champion horsewoman actually lived it. Growing up as one of seven children on a cattle ranch in Woody Creek, Colorado on the western slope near Aspen, Leslie was in the saddle at the age of two. Her father trained and sold horses, so they were an integral part of her life from day one. She recalls, “My Dad gave riding lessons to a group of women every week, and I remember sitting there, watching those lessons, and just absorbing so much through that experience.”