Parker, Colorado’s Jessica Laine Johnson is living proof that you can go off to college and remain successful in the show ring. At age 25, Johnson, who describes herself as a nontraditional student studying Human Services at Metropolitan State University of Denver will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree upon completion of an internship […]
Fourteen-year-old Sabrina Janis has a plan. For as long as she can remember she has dreamed of attending Texas A&M in College Station and competing on the school’s National Collegiate Equestrian Association National Championship team. So when her family purchased Huntin Petite Lady, a 2005 bay gelding by Huntin For Chocolate and out of Zippos […]
While most kids her age were just learning to crawl, Cheyenne Augsburger was already climbing up onto the back of a horse. The daughter of Lori and Andrew Augsburger of Loxqahatchee, Florida, Cheyenne was riding as soon as she was able to sit up and has spent very few days of her eight-year life away […]
She was 15, competing in a Showmanship class with 70 participants. After hours of standing in the burning sun, the results were called. A few minutes later, young Nettie Olsen’s family saw her walking back to the stalls, a seventh place ribbon in hand, and a smile plastered on her face. Olsen was born in […]
As soon as she graduated from high school in 2005, Canadian born Alyse Roberts packed her bags and moved to the United States. She couldn’t wait to start her career as a horse trainer and went right to work riding and learning at every stop along her path from industry greats like Ty and Karen […]
Whoever said you can’t find a good horse at a sale hasn’t met the O’Boyles from Ithaca, Michigan. Thad O’Boyle and his wife, Kim, and their two daughters, Kodi and Taylor, have had an enormous amount of success in the show ring from winning Congress Championships to placing in the Top 5 at the American […]
They’ve been through a lot together so when Kayla Tomilson, 16, of Lebanon, Ohio, competes in American Quarter Horse Association shows this year without her sister, Rachel, also in the ring it will be different…and difficult. Horses have been such a big part of her family of five, she knows she can count on the […]
The bull rider turned horse trainer turned mentor. No matter what the Miami born Jason English is doing, you can be certain it involves animals. The only child of Audrey and Craig English, Jason was born Feb. 25, 1974 and was introduced to horses at an early age. “He just had them as pets basically,” […]
His riding coach, Becky George says Domenick Heibing is one of those kids trainers beg for in a client. He has God-given talent that makes riding come naturally for the 11-year-old from Hockley, Texas. But he also absorbs everything you teach him, she says. Domenick is a third generation horseman. Both his parents, Tara and […]
Paul and Tami Thurston, of Tarboro, North Carolina, have had many successes over the years but it seems since the beginning they were destined to be together. Tami grew up in Ohio and developed a love for horses at a young age even though no one in her family had anything to do with them. […]
Cedar Springs Farm in Galatia, Illinois is not only home to the Barnes family, but it is also the center of a breeding operation, tax business, horse training operation and a family’s vision. Priscilla Barnes was familiar with farm life growing up. The only daughter of W.B. and Fern Pulliam, she was always fascinated by […]
He is the ex-bull rider, turned pleasure horse trainer out of Staunton, Virginia. He’s 32-year-old trainer, Lucas Cash. Born in Waynesboro, Virginia to parents Scott and Gail Cash, Lucas grew up in the horse industry. “My father showed from the time I can remember,” he says. Starting out as an amateur exhibitor, the elder Cash […]