Chloe Smyth: Eventing With Hounds, Horses and Heart

By Tafra Donberger Portraits by Kristin Lee After meeting eventer Chloe Smyth, it’s easy to see that she lives, breathes and dreams horses. Chloe has funneled her deep passion for the animals into a climb up the levels in the eventing world, but it’s her varied background, in combination with an exceptional work ethic and
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Marie Gray’s Bright & Bold Equine Masterpieces 

By Shya Beth  Marie Gray’s paintings draw you in and bring you into a world all her own. A horse enthusiast all her life, Marie combines the use of bright colors with simple backgrounds to capture a moment in time, accentuating her subject’s mood and personality. Marie began her full-time art career in 2013, after
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Rising Starr Horse Rescue: Educating to Save Lives

By Britney Grover For Kelly Stackpole, it’s simply about the horse. When she was teaching and training to national success and felt pressure to make it about the ribbon, she closed her barn. Unable to stay away from horses, however, she was soon back training and teaching non-competitive riders — and learned how much America’s
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Jumping Cross-Country with Boyd Martin – Part 1

How do you handle and jump each type of cross-country obstacle? Single Fences Whenever I’m cross-country schooling, I like to start my session with single fences. I try to really practice the art of jumping out of stride and in a rhythm. The design of these fences should be forgiving, with a friendly, sloping face
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The Many Hats of Sue Ashe: Judge, Grandma and More

By Laura Scaletti Portraits by Melissa Fuller Medal Finals winner, trainer, professional rider, wife, mother, grandmother and judge. These are just some of the figurative hats Sue Ashe has worn over the years. Today, if you see Sue at a horse show, whether she’s judging or cheering on her family, she’s likely to be wearing
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Selling Your Horse Through a Broker

By Armand Leone and Jessica E. Choper  Horse brokers can serve a very useful purpose and help ease and facilitate the daunting process of selling your horse. When you enlist the help of a broker, you enter into an agency relationship, meaning that you’re allowing the broker to act as an agent on your behalf
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Anthony Robinson: A Modern Master of Equine Art 

By Shya Beth  Anthony Robinson is one of the modern-day master painters, and his love of animals has drawn him into a life where he’s surrounded by them in all shapes and forms. Powerful and freeing brush strokes set his work apart in the ever-expanding world of equine art, and his masterful knowledge of both
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The Year Ahead: A Look at Dressage in 2021

By George Williams With 2020 officially behind us, we can hopefully focus on the new year and all that it promises. After living through last year, many of us are full of hope going into 2021. Since this is a dressage column, I’ll focus on the international dressage competition world and what to look for
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The Armed Forces Equestrian Center: Changing Lives Outside the Box

By Britney Grover To say that the Armed Forces Equestrian Center is an equine-assisted therapy program would be selling it short. It would be closer to say the Armed Forces Equestrian Center (AFEC) serves veterans, service members, military spouses and military children — however they need to be served. Therapy comes in many different forms
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Prepping for the Winter Season in Florida

By Hardin Towell How do you plan your horses’ show schedules through the winter? I want to get my horse fit for Winter Equestrian Festival without tiring him out in the December shows. You have to look at what your goal is for the year with the horse, and backtrack from there. If it’s a
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