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Ditty Up: Continuing a tradition of breeding and showing Western Pleasure contenders with youngsters like Forever Twisted and Machine Made Gold

Ditty Up: Continuing a tradition of breeding and showing Western Pleasure contenders with youngsters like Forever Twisted and Machine Made Gold

Since the day he was born, Forever Twisted, Nancy Ditty’s entry for this year’s 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure Slot Class at the March To The Arch this month in Fort Worth, Texas, has been reminding her of life’s most important lesson. Never give up. The 2021 bay gelding, sired by Gone Viral out of […]

Marepower: With Pretty Assets at the center of her small, powerful program Meghan Tierney produces results

Marepower: With Pretty Assets at the center of her small, powerful program Meghan Tierney produces results

It’s breeding season and in print, social media and conversations across the United States and abroad, it’s stallions, stallions, stallions. Who sires the best dispositions? Can I duplicate that stallion’s balance and topline? What get to trainers prefer? But what about the mares? As most savvy breeders agree, the dam contributes more to a foal […]

A Clean Start: Mare owners and stallion managers agree, a successful breeding season starts with a uterine culture

A Clean Start: Mare owners and stallion managers agree, a successful breeding season starts with a uterine culture

While seasoned broodmare owners and their veterinarians understand how important it is to perform a uterine culture prior to breeding, there are still a lot of misconceptions around its importance, or when and if one is even necessary. However, a uterine culture provides invaluable information about a mare’s reproductive health. Uterine cultures can help determine […]

There’s always something great cooking at Capital Quarter Horses in Pilot Point, Texas

There’s always something great cooking at Capital Quarter Horses in Pilot Point, Texas

Most successful sires don’t arrive by happenstance. They are created carefully by honest assessments of mares and strategic selection of their crossings. Then it takes patience and a solid training program as they are given the opportunity to reach their potential. And that’s just the start of it. Hillary Timchak of Capital Quarter Horses in […]

Crafting the Connection: Bosals serve as an essential tool for communicating with the horse

Crafting the Connection: Bosals serve as an essential tool for communicating with the horse

 Operating within the world of Western Pleasure, precision, control, and the art of subtle communication between horse and rider reign supreme – especially when it comes to horses showing in the junior and futurity events. Many decisions must be made when determining what it will take to show a young horse to the best […]

Cool Breeze: Lee and Brenda Looney’s young stallion already making his mark as a sire

Cool Breeze: Lee and Brenda Looney’s young stallion already making his mark as a sire

            Six years ago Lee and Brenda Looney were on a mission to purchase a stallion – specifically one that would cross on the show mares they had purchased to serve as the backbone of a breeding program they were building at their 101-acre horse farm in Tennessee.             There was only one problem. The […]

Corrival Ranch: Striving to breed the ultimate all-around Quarter Horse

Corrival Ranch: Striving to breed the ultimate all-around Quarter Horse

Nestled in the heart of the Texas hill country, lies Corrival Ranch, a state-of-the-art facility with equipment for breeding, training, and rehabbing equine athletes. As co-owner Susie Phillips tells the story, the idea for Corrival started like many do, on a back porch with a glass of wine. At the time, Phillips was managing the […]

Queen Ov Hearts: Helping to build the legacy of her sire, Machine Made

Queen Ov Hearts: Helping to build the legacy of her sire, Machine Made

They say the journey is the reward and what a journey it has been. In fact, Dr. Candice Hall and Dr. Cory Seebach, of Black Creek, British Columbia, Canada, say a bay stallion by the name of Machine Made, absolutely changed their lives. The first time Hall and Seebach ever laid eyes on “Hershel” was […]

VS Dispersal bring $5,120,250 during event in Claremore, Oklahoma

VS Dispersal bring $5,120,250 during event in Claremore, Oklahoma

Things were Exciting in Claremore, OK for the VS Dispersal Sale on August 9!  Kristen and Wesley Galyean, Jim, Debbie and Jared Glover truly appreciate all who attended and supported their program.  This was a “Once in a Lifetime Opportunity” for breeders and exhibitors to own a part of the VS Legacy. “Kristen and the […]

Palomino World Show opens today in Springfield, Illinois: Association celebrating 40th Year

Palomino World Show opens today in Springfield, Illinois: Association celebrating 40th Year

The judges have been hired. The trophies are polished. The arena has been dragged. Now it’s time for the Palomino Horse Breeders of America (PHBA) to welcome exhibitors and spectators to the association’s 40th Annual World Championship Show. The PHBA World Show gets underway today in the Coliseum at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield. […]

Lexie Frencl: Teamed with I Will Be A Lopin RV for Western Pleasure and all-around events

Lexie Frencl: Teamed with I Will Be A Lopin RV for Western Pleasure and all-around events

They say that success is best when it’s shared and Illinois native Lexie Frencl could not agree more. Although she has been showing horses competitively since she was just 14 years old, everything changed for Frencl when she met Justin Clay Arrington while she was handing out awards at the 2021 National Snaffle Bit Association […]

Reserve AQHA World & Congress Champion Mr Freeze making memories for the Leavell family

Reserve AQHA World & Congress Champion Mr Freeze making memories for the Leavell family

Imagine if the Big Bang Theory character Sheldon were a horse. That’s what Kentucky trainer Josh Faulkner says Mr Freeze is like. “He’s just goofy and always keeps you guessing,” Faulkner said. But the 2015 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) bay gelding by Batt Man and out of Only A Summer Breeze that Faulkner suggested […]

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