Alexa Lee: Saving An Angel and Learning To Fly
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Hailey Johns: Taking the Future by the Reins
By Lenore Rees Phillips
The beginning of Hailey Johns’ story sounds familiar. The precocious redhead was just another little girl who was crazy-in-love with horses. As a young girl, Hailey took to the saddle on a Quarter Horse in her … [Read more]
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Samia Staehle: Big Dreams and Stories Worth Telling
By Tafra Donberger
Portraits by Kristin Lee
There’s no shortage of story lines in Samia Staehle’s book of life. From her childhood riding ponies on foreign soil to chasing leads as an Associated Press television producer and now rising through … [Read more]
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Taylor Hall: Life, Fashion and The Tried Equestrian
By Susan Friedland-Smith
Portraits by Kristin Lee
Taylor Hall experienced an unorthodox introduction to horseback riding, which left her confused at the end of her first lesson. Nevertheless, the young horse lover from Santa Clarita, California, persevered, showing successfully on … [Read more]
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Boots For Troops: How a Family of Equestrians Is Giving Back to America’s Veterans
By Ruby Tevis
The horse is a universal symbol of freedom. Like many equestrians, Shane George of Magnolia, Texas, fell in love with the feeling of freedom from the back of a horse. As a USEF “R” judge, Shane has … [Read more]
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Kendel Neidermyer: From Front Flips to FWORDS
By Doris Degner-Foster
Portraits by Michael Paniccia
Kendel Neidermyer has successfully fused couture fashion design with active sports clothing, including riding apparel. Although she doesn’t ride, she considers herself a part of the horse community.
“I had this moment in … [Read more]
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Laura and Dan Keen: A Marriage Made in Horse Heaven
By Doris Degner-Foster
Portraits by Kristie Nichols
A serious relationship between an amateur English hunter-jumper rider and a true professional cowboy may seem unlikely, but for Laura and Dan Keen, it works. Together they run L & D Sport Horses … [Read more]
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Juri Ito: Finding Shangri-La
By Britney Grover
Photos by Shawna Simmons
Juri Ito discovered horses by accident while visiting a nuclear power plant in her home country of Japan. She didn’t know then that horses would not only become her life, but that they … [Read more]
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CANTER Pennsylvania: The Bridge Between Track and Homes for OTTBs
By Britney Grover
Many Thoroughbreds are born and bred to race. Some of them love to run and would finish a race riderless; others never quite hit their stride on the track. But they all deserve caring homes when they … [Read more]
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Daniela Siberio: The Magic of the Lusitano Horse
By Doris Degner-Foster
Portraits by Barbara Bower
When Daniela Siberio’s mother suggested a riding vacation in Portugal, Daniela wasn’t entirely enthusiastic at first — partly because it had been years since she had ridden, and also because there would be … [Read more]
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