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.…
The fourth annual Model Horse Show at Gloucester County College drew model horse collectors from as far as Texas and Indiana, and raised nearly $1,500 in scholarship funds for students enrolled in the school’s equine science program. “It’s a large hobby that not a lot of people outside the community know about,” said show founder…
Brazilian journalist Filipe Leite is crossing two continents on horseback. Leite is a second-generation cowboy living a dream he’s had since he was young: he’s riding two horses from the Calgary Stampede to his home in Sao Palo, Brazil, on a trek that will take him two years on horseback. Leite said it’s a 10,000…
The 2012 summer Olympics in London marked a milestone for international equestrian sport. The first Olympic Games to include dressage, show jumping and eventing took place a century before at the Stockholm, Sweden games. The three equestrian events have been held at every Olympics since then. 1. What was the year the equestrian events of…
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…
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…
Alex Hunter recently completed a four-year apprenticeship and qualified as a farrier – a profession traditionally dominated by men – so she can now use the letters Dip WCF after her name. She is in the early stages of building up her business, aiming to shoe around six horses a day. “I work in and…
Find out more about the Level 1 Find out more about the Level 2Horse Lover’s Math Workbooks We are born with a desire and passion for learning. Rather than investing time and effort into trying to motivate children to learn, why not let them follow their own interests and passions? Math underlies many things in…
Horse Lover’s Math brings children, horses and math together. Math questions drawn from the real world of horses are not perceived as “math” but as useful information about horses. One is not asked “Why do I have to know this?” If the subject matter is about horses, children want to know. While Horse Lover’s Math…
The FEI recently announced the equestrian super-powers for the 2012 Olympics: Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA will field full teams in all three disciplines. What makes up a full Olympic Equestrian team? Quotas of horse/rider pairs vary between Games and between each discipline. Currently, each National Federation may enter…