Fifteen-year-old Emily Drew of Houston, Texas, likens her show partner, Cadets Honor, to a 5-year-old boy with Attention Deficit Disorder. “He gets bored so fast that when we jump, we have to do jumper turns and tight corners just to keep his mind out of la la land,” she explains. “Same goes with the pattern […]
While the wheels of the horse industry have been turning, trainer Lonnie Cruse of Santa Fe, Texas, has been quietly producing multiple World and National Champions as long as anyone can remember, focusing on Appaloosas like his dad, Darold Cruse, did before him, as family tradition. “We’ve been in the Apps all our life. My […]
Masterson Farms, LLC, has announced that Casey Willis will be joining the farm Dec. 1 as its head trainer. In that role, he will be responsible for and supervise all training activities at the Somerville, Tennessee farm. He will be supported by assistant trainers Kaitlin LeBlanc, now at the farm, and Blair Townsend, who will […]
It’s the feeling she gets when she enters the show pen that keeps 13-year-old Rylee Morris of Nelsonville, Ohio interested in horses. “It’s great being able to do what I love,” she says. “I live my dream every time I show.” Her sister, Ashley Wood, is a professional trainer and propped Rylee up on a […]
Twenty-six-year-old Lauren Love, of Dallas, Texas has a striking dossier of accomplishments in the horse industry. She won the Amateur Horsemanship at the Quarter Horse Congress in 2011 and was AQHA’s Reserve World Champion in Amateur Horsemanship that same year with Invitemeforchocolate. She competed on the University of Georgia’s Equestrian team and helped the Bulldogs […]
Rodney is kind and sweet. He gives rides to little children and loves peppermints. Coco is super smart. He will do anything for a hug and he too enjoys a peppermint now and then. Lucky s a mellow fellow. He has been known to nibble on things but is very content just doing his job. […]
Not many people are introduced to horses by their teacher but that’s exactly how it all began for 18-year-old Nicole Kuklinski of Ironwood, Michigan. Nicole’s fifth grade teacher invited her out to her ranch one day to ride and she immediately fell in love with the horses and started taking riding lessons. By the time […]
Ask Alan Fisher what his idea of perfect happiness is and he’ll quickly tell you, “I’m living it.” Married to his “best friend,” Shannon, Fisher owns and operates his own training facility on 100 acres in Eastover, North Carolina, on land his family has owned for 150 years. Since his father, Leslie, bought his first […]
At the tender age of 13 Dakota Griffith would be quick to tell anyone who would listen that some day she would become a horse trainer. Her dream became a reality in 2011 at the end of her final year in youth. As the daughter of Leigh Ann and Sid Griffith, Dakota grew up on […]
The story of 26-year-old Cathrin Gutmann’s life reads like a fairy tale. In 2008 the Austria native found her prince charming, Barron Guntard Gutmann, a man her parents, Alfred and Monika, had known for years but Cathrin had never met. It was love at first sight for both and their 19-year age difference did little […]
If you pass Erin Mask at a Quarter Horse show and she doesn’t stop to chat, there’s probably a very good reason. The 13-year-old youth contender from Newnan, Georgia may be the busiest person you’ll run across at a show. The daughter of Angie Schmeck and Daryl Mask, Erin is up at the crack of […]
Amateur and Non-Pro contender April Baryton, of Conyers, Georgia really knows her show partner, After Midnite. “Midnite is very willing to do anything you ask him…. but you must ask nicely, you never tell him what to do,” she explains. “He loves to eat anything you’re eating but will beg and stalk you for peppermints.” […]
