Horses Healing Hearts Brings Smiles to Children
Horses Healing Hearts helps children raised with addiction in their home by working with horses.
Horses Healing Hearts helps children raised with addiction in their home by working with horses.
The AQHA Ranching Council awards inaugural project winners and announces 2012 foal recipients.
The USEF just named horse and rider combinations to the Short List for the 2012 Olympic Games Eventing team. It is no surprise that many riders listed have Pony Club backgrounds. Eight of the 11 riders named to the short list belonged to a Pony Club.
Ranch kids get well acquainted with hard work, traditions?-and a whole lot of freedom and fun. Courtesy AQHA's America's Horse Daily
Set in Nova Scotia in the early 1800s, The Island Horse by Susan Hughes is a great book for readers about the same age as ten-year-old Ellie, the book's main character.
Read the latest from Lukas, the "World's Smartest Horse," and his owner, Karen Murdock.
Thirteen-year-old Lacey Jo Edge helps with the Unwanted Horse Coalition and Operation Gelding.
Writing for America's Horse Daily, equine events coordinator Nancy Easton tells how to prevent accidents at shows.
Taking a dude ranch vacation? Learn about Western riding and hear a beginner's take on what it's like to ride Western style.
Kids who love animals and science can start preparing for animal health careers as early as eight years old via an online veterinary science curriculum.
The Horseback Riding Program rewards participants for spending time in the saddle, no matter whether it?s for work or play, and awards start at the 25-hour level. There?s a division for folks who ride American Quarter Horses and another one that's open to all breeds.
It all started when 3-year-old Trey asked Todd whether he could show Todd?s mare, Exquisite Looks, aka ?Ellie.? So Todd took his son into the parking lot for a crash course in halter.
Kari Frolander owned her first horse before she could walk. She won the county all-around horseman title every year of her eight-year 4-H career. Based on her experience here are tips for caring for an orphaned foal. From America's Horse.
November 2010--Thanksgiving never really ends for the recycled race horses who are fortunate enough to have become the projects of the Above and Beyond 4-H Club in Monmouth County. The club, fittingly named Serenity at Last, is where the thoroughbreds find not only sanctuary at the end of their first career at the track, but also love and a new job.
November 23, 2010--Guinness World Records has officially recognized Lukas' history making achievement: "Most numbers correctly identified by a horse in one minute."
What's the perfect family sport for horse-crazy parents and their four young children? As the Yost family of Pocatello, Idaho, found out, endurance riding is a great way to spend time together doing what they love.
Strebors Black Magic On Demand, a Miniature Horse registered with the American Miniature Horse Registry (AMHR), was recently named the ?Most Heroic Pet in America? by the AARP. Magic is a Miniature Therapy Horse who has worked with over 4,000 people.
Need a fun project involving horses? The AMHAY Horsemastership Program is designed to help you become a competent horseperson. The five successive levels of testing are designed to increase knowledge of the Morgan breed and general horsemanship while receiving recognition for hard work.
Back Country Horsemen of America recognizes that youth are the future of our country. They wonder who will care for our wilderness and preserve American citizens? right to ride on public lands in years to come. They also know the great physical, emotional, and mental benefits they get from enjoying their horses and mules in the back country; and they want to share those joys with children.