Western Riding

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 […]

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 […]

Legendary AQHA show horse Zippo LTD dies at the age of 30 in Texas

Legendary AQHA show horse Zippo LTD dies at the age of 30 in Texas

Zippo LTD, one of the American Quarter Horse Association’s most decorated show horses of all time, has died at the age of 30. Julia Taylor Cheek, of Dallas, Texas purchased Zippo LTD in 2000, earned many of his youth and amateur points and World and Congress titles and owned him until his death. “It’s with […]

Show community mourns loss of legendary Vital Signs Are Good

Show community mourns loss of legendary Vital Signs Are Good

Vital Signs Are Good, one of the most decorated horses in American Quarter Horse Association history, was humanely euthanized today due to complications surrounding a coffin joint infection. The 2000 red roan mare by Zippos Mr Good Bar and out of Vitalism was a superstar from the start. She won the Open 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure […]