EC Blog – Ranch Riding
By Jamie Walters I’d like to tell you a story …. About a month ago, I decided to show my former reiner, a very hairy, fledgling rope horse, Flash (Sail On Vintage) in the Ranch Riding class at the Sun Circuit AQHA Horse Show in Scottsdale, Arizona. He had never done any of the maneuvers […]
Accidents happen in a second, but the effects can be forever. By Susan Marie Stidham, DVM The end of a long and hard week, and only now can I write about it. Wednesday, I answered a hysterical phone call about a highway accident involving a horse trailer. Some of you may have seen Linda […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – Don’t Over Complicate It…
February 15, 2023 Comments Off on EC Blog – Don’t Over Complicate It…
By Pistol Lilly Ranch Tack Shop Don’t over complicate it…. There was a time when you were just happy to ride, happy to be in the company of horses. It didn’t matter if you could execute a perfect lead change or jump double clear rounds. You were just happy to have two feet in the […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – What Would I Do Without Horses?
February 13, 2023 Comments Off on EC Blog – What Would I Do Without Horses?
By Valerie Payne Smith People who don’t have horses sometimes say to me, “Horses sure are beautiful, but why do you have all these animals that demand so much of your time and your finances? It seems you live at the barn. You could probably have a spare room at the vet clinic with as […]
Continue reading …
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 […]
Continue reading …
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 […]
Continue reading …
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 …