Trail

Pattern Prowess: Tips for helping you memorize those complicated patterns

Pattern Prowess: Tips for helping you memorize those complicated patterns

Competition in the pattern classes at top breed shows and futurities has improved so much in the past decade that course designers have had to add maneuvers and to the degree of difficulty just to keep up and make the classes challenging. Some of today’s Showmanship Horsemanship, Equitation, Trail and Ranch patterns can get extremely […]

March To Arch adds classes for 2024

March To Arch adds classes for 2024

Just months after the 2023 March To The Arch concluded in Fort Worth, Texas, show organizers have announced big changes for next year’s event. Back by popular demand will be the two slot classes, with guaranteed money – The $100,000 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure and the $50,000 3-Year-Old & Over Hunter Under Saddle. New […]

Madeleine Bayless returns to show pen after 20 year break with Im Willy Good Today and Best Money Made

Madeleine Bayless returns to show pen after 20 year break with Im Willy Good Today and Best Money Made

Madeleine Bayless waited 20 years to return to showing horses and with the help of two very special new horses – Im Willy Good Today and Best Money Made – 2023 is shaping up to be a year to remember for the Alabama native. Bayless didn’t come from a horse family or have any natural […]

Hansen focuses on needs of clients, horses

Hansen focuses on needs of clients, horses

Gretna, Nebraska professional trainer Micah Hansen believes that every horse and person has a way that they like to learn and it’s his job to figure out what exactly that is. “I try not to make every horse’s program the same,” he said. That philosophy has served Hansen well as he has navigated the path […]

Tale of the Teeth: How dental health impacts performance in horses

Tale of the Teeth: How dental health impacts performance in horses

Horses in Ryan Cottingham’s Indiana training barn follow the same dental routine as most people – the horses receive an oral exam twice a year. That allows Cottingham and the equine dentist to enable horses to be comfortable so they can perform their best without the distraction of a problem in their mouth. The preventative […]

A Bit Of Advice: Knowing what tool to use is key in training

A Bit Of Advice: Knowing what tool to use is key in training

The constant pull, achy arm muscles and red blisters that appear on fingers after riding a hard, dull mouthed horse isn’t something any rider wants to experience.  When it comes to communicating simple demands like steering and speed control with horses to even more advance training with a young prospect, they all must learn how to […]

Florida Gold Coast Quarter Horse Circuit Returns to Tampa

Florida Gold Coast Quarter Horse Circuit Returns to Tampa

The Florida Gold Coast Quarter Horse Circuit will return to the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center at the Florida State Fairgrounds on Friday, Dec. 28, and will run through Monday, Dec. 31. In 2016, the Florida Gold Coast Quarter Horse Circuit was named one of the top 10 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) shows in the country, moving […]

AQHA replacing rope gates with metal gates in Trail

AQHA replacing rope gates with metal gates in Trail

If you and your horse are used to opening and closing a metal gate, that maneuver will come in handy, as the American Quarter Horse Association is replacing rope gates with metal gates in Trail classes at two AQHA world championship shows this year. Exhibitors can view an example on AQHA’s Youtube channel of the  type […]