It is a slow day in a small Alberta town and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A cowboy in a fancy truck pulling an even fancier horse trailer drives through town on his way to a competition, stops at the tack store, and [...]
We published this before but it gets lost in all the posts and so I thought I would just publish it again so those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to download it will get the chance. http://www.aqha.com/showing/awards/incentivefund/media/guideToFoaling.pdf
The first track from Airs’ Moon Safari album, accompanied by scenes from a video shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed much of San Francisco. Be sure to turn the music on – it adds to it somehow. Some really cool looking horses [...]
Horses not only remember people who have treated them well, they also understand words better than expected, research shows. Human friends may come and go, but a horse could be one of your most loyal, long-term buddies if you treat it right, suggests a new study. Horses also understand words better than expected, according to [...]
Spring is here. What do we love best in the spring? The babies, of course. This contest isn’t limited to baby horses nor is it limited to this years babies. We love calves, puppies, kittens and pretty well every baby animal we have ever met. So go for it. Take your cameras with you when [...]
The first graduates of the AQHA stewards program are announced. The American Quarter Horse Journal, March 18, 2010 – The inaugural class of AQHA’s Stewards went through a comprehensive training program today in Dallas, Texas. Beginning in April, the 39 people attending the training session will begin stewarding some of AQHA’s more than 3,200 annual [...]
A friend sent me this one. A bit of fun. Potential Danger of Horse Hair… This is a public service announcement. In a press release today, the National Institute of Health has announced the discovery of a potentially dangerous substance in the hair of horses. This substance, called “amobacter equuii” has been linked with the [...]
A few interesting things I gleaned from the Roping The Web newsletter this week. Unique Veterinary Medical Assistant Program at Lakeland College Student Summer Employment From Paper to Podium with One Simple CD-ROM On-Farm First Aid and CPR Training Agricultural Societies Receive Additional Funds to Promote Farm Safety
Funny story this morning. Dave renewed an ad in the classifieds which automatically moves the counter back to “0″ and then went for breaky. When he came back there was an email in his inbox requesting that he set that ad’s counter to “0″. He checked the counter and there were already 238 hits on [...]
Back in the “old” days when a stallion became infertile it usually meant that he would be producing few if any more foals. So when I read that High Brow Cat was diagnosed as infertile I thought what a great loss that would be to the cutting world. I then learned that High Brow Cat’s [...]
I thought this was an interesting comment from one of our blog readers on the Free Draw for Mane Event tickets. The one comment I would have to make after attending all the main events in Red Deer, is that I have become better for horses. The insight that the events provide through their selection [...]
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