Breakwater Farm in North Carolina new home for Taylor Kungle’s horse operation

Breakwater Farm in North Carolina new home for Taylor Kungle’s horse operation

Talk to people who know amateur competitor Taylor Kungle and you will hear a lot about how competitive she is. They will tell you she owns several nice show horses and she really enjoys trying new events. But what a lot of people don’t know about Taylor is that what really motivates her – her […]

30-year trainer-client relationship between Jon Barry, Dana Hunt Smith results in World Class Mares

30-year trainer-client relationship between Jon Barry, Dana Hunt Smith results in World Class Mares

In the horse industry, there are very few trainer-client relationships that have been able to stand the test of time quite as well as the one Missouri trainer Jon Barry enjoys with Dana Hunt Smith’s family.             Over the course of 30-plus years, there have been plenty of challenges. There has been tragedy. There has been […]

Samantha Gardner and EPR Face It Im Fancy have sights set on APHA World Show

Samantha Gardner and EPR Face It Im Fancy have sights set on APHA World Show

Lots of riders look forward to competing at the American Paint Horse Association World Championship Show. But you will be hard-pressed to find someone more determined to get to Fort Worth this month than Samantha Gardner, of Wilmington, North Carolina.             Last year Gardner missed her futurity class there when Hurricane Florence plowed through her home […]

Open For Suggestion laid to rest in Ocala, Florida

Open For Suggestion laid to rest in Ocala, Florida

Promising American Quarter Horse Association sire, Open For Suggestion, was humanely euthanized on Thursday, after sustaining a hip fracture in a paddock accident, according to his owner Kerry Bradac. He was laid to rest at Bradac Ranch South in Ocala, Florida. “There are never the right words for moments like this,” Bradac said. “As I […]

Tom Powers Futurity moving to Ohio in 2020

Tom Powers Futurity moving to Ohio in 2020

Tom Powers, founder of the Tom Powers Triple Challenge Futurity, the longest continuously-running futurity in the country, has announced that next year’s event will be held at the World Equestrian Center, Wilmington, Ohio. “After 35 years we can no longer depend on Berrien Springs to provide a suitable environment to continue our futurity,” Powers said. […]

Brody Galyean forging his own path in the show industry

Brody Galyean forging his own path in the show industry

His last name is synonymous with greatness in the horse industry, whether it’s in the Western Pleasure pen or in the Cutting arena. But Brody Galyean is not letting that intimidate him. Instead, he’s motivated by it. Brody’s father is trainer Gil Galyean, who was the first to be honored by the National Snaffle Bit […]

Cool Breeze at the center of Looney Quarter Horses program

Cool Breeze at the center of Looney Quarter Horses program

Situated squarely between Memphis and Nashville just off Tennessee’s “Heart of the Music Highway” in Jackson is a 101-acre horse farm, where Lee and Dr. Brenda Looney are making all their dreams come true. With a solid base of the highest quality broodmares they could assemble – including Quarter Horse Congress and National Snaffle Bit […]

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