Twenty-eight-year-old Californian Liz Halliday is a unique sportswoman who likes taking risks. Not only is she pursuing her dream of becoming an Olympic-level three-day eventer, she’s also a racecar driver who competes internationally in Sportscar and GT endurance racing.On...
Shanna Lee helps a young horse at Mississippi State University become accustomed to a lead rope during a training session on Oct. 17. (Photo by Linda Breazeale/MSU Agricultural Communications)No matter how much they thought they knew, the two-and four-legged...
J.B. Rutherford rode Holidoc Mate to the 2006 world championship title in amateur cutting.The American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show, which runs Nov. 2 – 17 at the recently renovated State Fair Park in Oklahoma City, is the...
SmartPak is coming to the aid of horses affected by the Southern California wildfires, with a $5,000 donation to theUSEF disaster fund, which assists equines of any breed that find themselvesvictims of disasters. Our customers and their horses have...
The MD Barns Silver Spur Award honors American Quarter Horses that positively affect the lives of humans through outstanding training, contribution or accomplishment. Although it’s too late to nominate horses for the 2007 Award, it’s not too late to...
Many people in...
Escaping the WildfireThey issued a mandatory evacuation and I didn’t have a trailer. Read more >>Part II of Escaping the WildfireA mandatory evacuation and no horse trailer left me hand-walking two horses away from the flames, with no plan...
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Large animal shelters that opened last week due to the California wildfires are beginning to shut down in San Diego County, but Orange County shelters remain crowded as the fire there, although 65 percent contained, continues to force evacuations...
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