Chapter Seven, a 4-year-old male trotter won eight of 10 starts in 2012 and equaled the world record of 1:50.1 on a mile racetrack and was named harness-racing’s 2012 Horse of the Year. A winning percentage is the fraction of races won. To calculate the winning percentage divide the number of wins by the total…
Various chapters of the National Pony Express Association hold an annual fundraiser they call the Christmas Card Ride. Chapter members of the Southeast Wyoming Pony Express carry cards over the original Pony Express route between Fort Laramie and Guernsey. The distance between Fort Laramie, Wyoming and Guernsey, Wyoming is 13 miles. The speed at which…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ride a big draft horse? Julia Bassett, who is just 5 feet 1 inches tall and weighs 95 pounds, gets to ride one every day. Al, is a 1,800-pound Percheron. He stands 18 hands high at his withers, and towers over Julia. 1. How tall…
‘Manipuri Ponies’ are said to be one of five recognised breeds of horses found in India, the rest being Kathiawari, Marwari, Zanskari and Bhutia. Equestrian experts have conflicting views about the origin of the ancient breed, some say that it may have developed from the Tibetan pony or the Mongolian wild horse. Chand Bibi Playing Polo;…
A survey of elementary schoolchildren in a semi-rural district of the North Canterbury area in New Zealand has provided a snapshot of horse use among youngsters in the region. The survey by the local council was sent to all primary schoolchildren (5 to 13-year-olds) in the district. There were 5400 children at the schools and…
Calidoscopio, a 9-year-old Argentinean gelding, won the 1 ¾-mile 2012 Breeders’ Cup Marathon becoming the oldest horse ever to win a Breeders’ Cup race. There are several different ways to compare a horse’s age with a human’s age. Here is one way: Beginning at birth, horses age 6.5 years for each human year until they…
Alabar Bloodstock, a Standardbred breeding farm, is celebrating the birth of what many believe may be the first white standardbred foal ever born in Australia. The one-in-a-million colt is being treated like a Hollywood star at the Goulburn Valley farm where he was foaled. “He’s not an albino and he’s not a grey, because grey’s…
Frankel, hailed as the greatest horse of them all, has been retired after his 14th and final victory. For three hundred years breeders have plotted to create the perfect equine running machine. “I can’t believe that in the history of racing there has ever been a better racehorse,” said Frankel’s trainer, Sir Henry Cecil, after…
Caroline Butler of Keymar, Md., set her eyes on her dream pony –a red-and-white Chincoteague colt with a white diamond marking on his forehead. She began working to earn money by mowing grass and cleaning horse stalls. 1. In four months she saved $1,500. On average how much did she earn each month? The 15-year-old’s…
Stacy Glidden Westfall, grew up in Maine. She got her first horse, Misty, when she was just 6 years old. Today, at 37, Westfall is a nationally respected trainer of horses and their owners. She now lives in Ohio and will be inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame at a luncheon on Oct.…