By admin on May 23, 2015
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When she’s not soaring over a jump on her hunter-jumper gelding, Golden Opportunity, or to the top of a Horsemanship class with her All-Around partner, Chex Is The Choice, Natalia DeVencenty is likely still flying high, in a plane at Travelaire, her family’s private air-ambulance service in Pueblo, Colorado. “Because airplanes are a part of […]
By admin on May 13, 2015
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As the proud owner of AQHA stallion Hot N Blazing, breeding is the cornerstone of Courtney Battison’s horse program. From her 180-acre ranch in Purcell, Oklahoma Battison has developed one of the top Hunter Under Saddle breeding operations in the country. Each year she breeds about 10 of her own mares to the AQHA World […]
By admin on April 23, 2015
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Showing horses is a family affair for the Flowers family of Ocala, Florida. Both Makayla, 18, and 14-year-old brother, Ryan, show under the guidance of Kim and Curtis Reynolds of Final Four Performance Horses, in Fairfield, Florida. The family has lived all over the country from the Northeast to the Midwest before finally putting down […]
By admin on April 16, 2015
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Jackson, Tennessee veterinarian Brenda Looney and her husband, Lee, made an important decision a while back. “We didn’t want to look back on our lives when we are older and say ‘what if…,’” she explains. “He’s been the biggest influence in my horse show career because he pushes me to achieve what I had previously […]
By admin on April 9, 2015
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For Colorado based trainer Kelly McDowall the best part about being a horse trainer is finding a horse that best fits the rider. One of the most important things to him is to surround himself with great horses. “A horse trainer can make a bad horse great, but a horse trainer can also make a […]
By admin on March 18, 2015
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It took a long while for 17-year-old Emma Edwards of Issaquah, Washington, to get over the unexpected death of her beloved show partner, Its Only Natural, last June. The 1996 chestnut gelding by Play Rush and out of Par Zans Keno played an important role in her life – both in the arena and outside […]
By admin on March 11, 2015
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Amateur competitor Cheryl Mullikin took 25 years off from showing. But when she returned to the show pen in 2007 she did it with a vengence. As a youngster growing up in Ohio, Mullikin showed 4-H and local Open Show Circuits. When she got married she sold her horse and 25 years went by before […]
By admin on February 25, 2015
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Trevor Barnes says he’s been training horses owned by his parents, Rick and Debra Barnes, since he was 16 years old. Since his mother has owned horses all her life, it seemed natural that he share her passion. Barnes was born in Lima, Ohio and grew up in nearby Waynesfield. He went to school there at Waynesfield […]
By admin on February 18, 2015
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Lindsay McLain grew up in Iowa, showing horses with her sisters, Maggie and Kelsey Gulling. With all three of their daughters showing at the same time, having a trainer was not an option for Steve and Carrie Gulling. So McLain learned to figure things out for herself. “We took lessons from older 4-H girls in […]
By admin on February 11, 2015
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Anna Lia Sullivan tried soccer but it didn’t work out. She tried dance class too but that was a “no-go.” The 14-year-old from Southampton, New Jersey, insists she was a “pony girl” since the age of 2 and she says she just never grew out of that phase. So instead of fighting it….Sullivan turned her […]
By admin on February 4, 2015
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Eighteen-year-old Lacey Olejar marches to the beat of her own drum. Always has. A self-proclaimed tomboy, this Whitehouse Station, New Jersey native has been horse crazy for as far back as she can remember. “I started showing on the open local circuit when I was 9 years old,” Olejar says. “The first horse my parents […]
By admin on February 2, 2015
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At the horse shows Lindsey Gillette, of St Petersburg, Florida is a friendly competitor who loves her horses and her show family. But outside the pen she says she is best described as a “nerd.” “I love science in all its elements,” she admits. A middle school biology, algebra and chemistry teacher by profession, Gillette […]