Three sixth graders from Mitchell Intermediate School in Texas were awarded second place in the grade 4-6 category at the 21st annual Toshiba/National Science Teacher Association ExploraVision program. Their project? A device called L.E.A.D.S. that allows veterinarians to diagnose Laminitis in horses. Genna Childers, Sarah Kong, and Alice Zhang worked together along with their coach, Dawn…
Did you know that horses can help find missing people just like a bloodhound – by using their sense of smell? At a recent demonstration in Terrebonne, Oregon of what is called “equine air-scenting”, an Appaloosa gelding named Joker took 2 minutes and 20 seconds to find a carefully hidden volunteer in a 13-acre, semi-wooded field.…
The 2012 Supreme Extreme Mustang Makeover Yearling competition was held September 13 to 15, at the Will Rogers Equestrian Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Exhibitors in this category had to be 8 to 18 years old at the time of application. Once each youth picks up their horse, they have 90 days to train them.…
Shetland ponies Fivla and Vitamin model handmade wool sweaters knitted by local Shetlander Doreen Brown at the Thorndale Shetland Driving Centre in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. The white pony Fivla, is a calm, loving 17-year-old who is very good friends with 18-year-old Vitamin, the black pony. Fivla, looking warm and cuddly in her very…
A horseless horse show is an event that allows children and adults to gallop over a course of miniature jumps, imitating the 1,000-pound animals and top riders they idolize. The participants pay an entry fee and the money goes to the organizer, Just World International, a great cause helping children in impoverished communities around the…
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…
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…
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.…