The Pony Express delivered mail from Missouri to California for just a brief time in the early 1860s. But the romance of those intrepid riders racing across the country lives on in the annual reenactment by the National Pony Express Association. Last year’s “Re-Ride” started in St. Joseph, Mo. and ended in Sacramento. But this…
Pony rider Barbara Davis put in solid tests on both of her ponies and rode away with the National Pony Rider Dressage Championship and Reserve Championship. Davis, of Bedmister, New Jersey, rides with Dr. Cesar Parra and Katie Riley of Piaffe Performance Farms. Davis, 14, rode into the arena first with Bohdjan, a 13-year-old Dutch…
Ashley Keary, 14, from Brockville, Ontario returned home a bronze medalist from the 2012 FEI International Children’s Jumping Competition in Hong Kong. Ashley qualified for the horse jumping final, held Jan. 10-15, 2012 by posting strong results in competition last summer. She was the only competitor from Canada invited to compete. The event was held…
Rachel Alexandra was the 2009 Horse of the Year, the first female to receive this honour since Azeri in 2002 and just the seventh to capture that title since 1936, when official voting for Horse of the Year was established. Her racing record made history. She became the first filly to win the Preakness since…
A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of horses to wide-open grasslands shared by Ukraine, southwest Russia and Kazakhstan. Horse genetics is the science of heredity as applied to horses. Heredity is the reason for the similarity between parents and their offspring. Researchers generally date the domestication…
A central Harlem street was transformed into a rodeo for a few hours one day by a group of black cowboys wanting to expose city kids to something different and expand their horizons. First, kids were given a lesson about the history of black cowboys. In the late 1860s, there were as many as 15,000…