[ad_1] Melissa Davis is a jack-of-all trades when it comes to riding, especially quarterhorses like the one she has now, “Joe.” “Quarterhorses can do anything,” she said. They “are always up for the next adventure.” Davis started riding when she was 7. “My dad surprised me with a pony.” Her parents had horses, too, and
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[ad_1] “The horses are ready to roll!” That was the start of a fashion show at the Laguna Woods Equestrian Center this week. Six freshly bathed equines strutted one by one down the “runway” to model items purchased through donations to the Help the Herd campaign, a fundraising project supported by the Village Community Fund.
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[ad_1] Calling all horse kids! I was you, once. My bedroom wall was adorned with a poster of various horse breeds, I preferred My Little Pony over Barbie, and I was always begging my parents for riding lessons. Naturally, my shelf was full of horse books for kids. I even lived my equestrian dreams when
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[ad_1] Is there anyone as proud of their passion as an equestrian or horse lover? Whether they’re professionals or beginners, hop up on English saddles or ride Western-style, own their own stables or borrow their equine, horse folks really love what they do. That should make them relatively easy to buy gifts for at Christmas—you
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[ad_1] It’s question time here at SFF Equines, and commenter Jazzlet has a good one: Could you tell those of us who have only ridden other people’s horses a bit about saddles? I’ve seen mention of people with their own saddle, if I remember rightly one TNG Star Trek starts with the Enterprise being completely
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[ad_1] Photo provided to the Times Observer The Sanford Saddles and Spurs met at the Warren County Fairgrounds 4-H Center on Nov. 14. Many club members attended the Pleasantville Horse Parade last year. This year the parade will be on the December meeting date. Club members voted to attend the parade together as a club
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[ad_1] DENVER — The National Western Stock Show Rodeo is high on all rodeo contestant’s bucket lists to win. For Rocker Steiner of Weatherford, Texas, that win became a possibility on Tuesday in the Denver Coliseum. The third-generation competitor joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association when he turned 18. He won the fourth rodeo that
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[ad_1] img#mv-trellis-img-2::beforepadding-top:96.116504854369%; img#mv-trellis-img-2display:block;img#mv-trellis-img-3::beforepadding-top:98.714652956298%; img#mv-trellis-img-3display:block;img#mv-trellis-img-4::beforepadding-top:88.549618320611%; img#mv-trellis-img-4display:block;img#mv-trellis-img-5::beforepadding-top:102.00573065903%; img#mv-trellis-img-5display:block;img#mv-trellis-img-6::beforepadding-top:125.07645259939%; img#mv-trellis-img-6display:block; Saddle seat is a discipline that many people don’t know much about. It is an elegant style of riding popular among Saddlebreds, Morgans, Arabians, Friesians, Tennessee Walkers, and National Show Horses. The best saddle seat saddle brands include the Freedman’s, Shively, Lovatts & Ricketts, and Joseph Sterling. Their
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[ad_1] Both the middle school and high school Lone Star Equestrians Western horse-riding teams based in Marble Falls recently won enough points to compete in the national show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on April 29. Half of the 14 members of the Lone Star Equestrians who competed in the Winter Show at Texas Tech University on
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