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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 […]

Ava Hathaway: Road to success can be bumpy

Ava Hathaway: Road to success can be bumpy

Sixteen-year-old Ava Hathaway, of Coldwater, Michigan knows all too well what a roller-coaster ride showing horses at the top level can be. She’s had her share of bumps along the way but staying focused, patient and determined she has also learned that there are just as many high points as there are lows. Like many, […]

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 […]

AQHA Wrangler Women of Influence

AQHA Wrangler Women of Influence

 Influence is defined as the capacity to have an effect on the character, development or behavior of someone or something. The American Quarter Horse industry is rich with trailblazing women, who have not only broken traditional barriers, overcome challenges and achieved goals, but have also inspired and empowered others to do the same. The American […]

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 […]