“Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” -Mattie Stepanek. Pictured is Chesney Watkins and The Company You Keep at the 2023 OKQHA Spring Show, warming up for Showmanship! Catch up on our 2022 article, 5 Exercises to Improve 5 Essential Showmanship Skills, here: 5 Exercises to Improve 5 Essential Showmanship Skills […]
Continue reading …EC Transformation Tuesday – Joanna Ruffino
September 26, 2023 Comments Off on EC Transformation Tuesday – Joanna Ruffino
“The first picture was taken in 1992 with a pony my neighbor bought me named Butterscotch,” says Joanna Ruffino. Joanna currently works for Daurio Performance Horses, and she has a few of her own customers at Show Horses by Joanna. She’s also an equine architectural designer for GH2 Equine Architects! What a resume’! Thank you to […]
Continue reading …EC Photo of the Day – Only Horse People Understand
September 26, 2023 Comments Off on EC Photo of the Day – Only Horse People Understand
“To be content, horse people need only a horse, or, lacking that, someone else who loves horses with whom they can talk.”- Allan J. Hamilton Thank you to Sally Blackwell Photography for one of our favorite photos from the 2023 Mary Hopkins Memorial Equestrians with Disabilities AQHA Show, an EWD show sponsored by […]
Continue reading …How To Pin A Number on A Show Pad with Leslie Lange
September 26, 2023 Comments Off on How To Pin A Number on A Show Pad with Leslie Lange
Details matter and pinning your show number on your saddle pad neatly and cleanly can enhance your overall look. Watch as the one and only Leslie Lange of Leslie Lange Performance Horses, Inc gives EC viewers a mini lesson.
Continue reading …In Loving Memory of KM You Make It Easy, 2018-2023
September 25, 2023 Comments Off on In Loving Memory of KM You Make It Easy, 2018-2023
KM YOU MAKE IT EASY 2018-2023 Our condolences to the Rusty Green Show Horses family, owner John McNichol, and everyone who loved KM You Make It Easy on the loss of their beloved “Phoebe.” Katie Green posted this tribute on their page on Monday, September 25th: “John, I want you to know how grateful […]
Continue reading …A New Team on the Horizon – Taylor Bates and Ima Lazy Cowboy
September 25, 2023 Comments Off on A New Team on the Horizon – Taylor Bates and Ima Lazy Cowboy
By Delores Kuhlwein Any time people are eager to talk about a horse, you know that horse is a good one, and that’s exactly the case for Ima Lazy Cowboy, who just gained a new partner, Taylor Bates. “Cowboy,” a 2013 sorrel AQHA gelding by No Doubt Im Lazy and out of Huntin A Cowboy […]
Continue reading …EC Photo of the Day – Horse Show Hangover
September 25, 2023 Comments Off on EC Photo of the Day – Horse Show Hangover
Do you have the Monday-after-the-horse-show blues? We sure do, but we appreciate all the memories you shared with us at the Arizona Fall Championship and the APHA Western National Championship Show this past week! The Equine Chronicle has written about this syndrome we all experience called Horse Show Hangover in the past. Click the […]
Continue reading …EC Photo of the Day – Sometimes You Just Have to Boop! the Nose
September 24, 2023 Comments Off on EC Photo of the Day – Sometimes You Just Have to Boop! the Nose
Some horses have noses just waiting to be booped! Thank you to Rachel Griffin Photography for this fun nose boop photo from the OKQHA Spring Show. If you have a great photo of the day, please submit it by email: Delores.Kuhlwein@EquineChronicle.com.
Continue reading …EC Photo of the Day – Bizzie the Border Collie
September 23, 2023 Comments Off on EC Photo of the Day – Bizzie the Border Collie
This is Bizzie the Border Collie living the good life at the recent Illinois Paint Horse Association POR and Fall Breeders’ Futurity. Thanks to Roxanne Swygart for the fun photo! If you have a great photo of the day, please submit by email for consideration: Delores.Kuhlwein@EquineChronicle.com.
Continue reading …Congratulations to the Alicia Ritsema on the Purchase of This Cowboys Mine
September 22, 2023 Comments Off on Congratulations to the Alicia Ritsema on the Purchase of This Cowboys Mine
By Delores Kuhlwein Congratulations to Alicia Ritsema, now the proud owner of This Cowboys Mine, by The Lopin Machine and out of Suddens Leading Lady. “Cowboy,” raised by Paula Czapko, and out of her beloved mare, Suddens Leading Lady (RL Best of Sudden), proved to be a success at age two with Aaron Moses in […]
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