Keeping Her Wings
Thursday, June 25 2015
Step By Step Foundation’s Liliane Stransky
By Doris Degner-Foster
Founder and president of Step By Step Foundation, Liliane Stransky Secchi, spoke of an important childhood memory that had a profound effect on her life. “When I was 6 years old, … [Read more]
- Published in Weekly Feature
America’s Sweetheart — Beezie Madden
Monday, June 22 2015
By Doris Degner-Foster
If someone was a successful working student for Olympic gold medalist and international coach Katie Monahan Prudent, it would probably be a risky move to voluntarily leave and go work at a sale barn. But it turned … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature
Pipe Stalls Offer Great Views in California
Thursday, June 18 2015
By Susan Friedland-Smith
Question: When is a barn not a barn? In the United Kingdom when you go to ride horses at the “yard”? Or perhaps when you’re a home renovator who turns a legitimate horse barn into a house … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Spotlight
Shattered Illusion – Available for Adoption!
Thursday, June 18 2015
Shattered Illusion (Photo courtesy of New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program) Shattered Illusion (Manny) is available for adoption from New Vocations’ Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, facility. Manny is a 12-year-old, 16.3 h, bay Thoroughbred gelding. Adoption fee is $500
- Published in Beyond the Track, Z-Blogs
It’s Fun to Be an Amateur
Monday, June 15 2015
By Kathy Serio
Riding as an amateur certainly has the good, the bad and the ugly. For many years, the Handy Hunter Over Fences class was removed from the Amateur Owner division and we were given a reprieve from having … [Read more]
- Published in Weekly Feature
Life in the Art World
Monday, June 15 2015
Canadian Artist Melinda Brewer
By Katie Navarra
Canadian-based artist Melinda Brewer has dedicated her life to chronicling the sport of polo and its most accomplished horses. She’s been honored with countless awards and her artwork has hung in galleries across … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature
Honour and Repent – Available for Adoption!
Thursday, June 11 2015
Honour and Repent (Photo courtesy of New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program) Honour and Repent (Remi) is available for adoption from New Vocations’ Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, facility. Remi is a 4-year-old, 16 h, dark bay Thoroughbred mare
- Published in Beyond the Track, Z-Blogs
From Medical School to a New Life in Wellington
Friday, June 05 2015
Nataly Leibovitz’s Dreams Have Come True
By Doris Degner-Foster
Israel native Nataly Leibovitz went on vacation to Wellington, Florida, after her third year of medical school and was so impressed that she left school to move there. “I was star … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Spotlight
Chenoa McElvain: On Her Way Up
Thursday, June 04 2015
By Laura Mullane
Chenoa McElvain has dreamed of competing on the U.S.A. team for the World Equestrian Games, the World Cup and the Olympics for as long as she can remember. A competitive jumper since the age of 6, Chenoa … [Read more]
- Published in Weekly Feature
Ride Right, Eat Right
Wednesday, June 03 2015
By Lauren Blacker
My love of horses began like most others. Even before I allowed the training wheels to come off my bike, I was begging to get on a horse. Waking up at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Feature