North Texas is known as horse country in many areas. The region is home to numerous horse ranches, breeding facilities and boarding barns. On any given...
Photo: Mike Major and Smart Whiskey Doc earn their first Stock Horse World Championship. The event featured competition in stock horse pleasure, trail, reining and cow...
Growing popularity of Barndominiums By Janis Blackwell Only a few years ago if you had mentioned a barndominium or house barn, people might have looked at you as if...
By Martin A. Horse manure has many uses, including…jewelry. Yes, jewelry, though, as far as this reporter can find, horse manure jewelry is currently confined to images on various accessories, likes...
By Krista Lucas It is crunch time for many cowboys and cowgirls on the rodeo road. This time of year always finds professional rodeo competitors trying to win...
By Martin Aldridge Five year-old Freya is none too pleased with – well – everything. Her head is high and she turns it away whenever someone tries to get her...
By Krista Lucas There is a new association coming to the world of rodeo, bringing exciting new opportunities to cowboys and cowgirls. It is called Elite Rodeo Athletes. This new...
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) With confirmed cases of Vesicular Stomatitis this year in Texas, all horses owners need to be aware and educate themselves on the disease. Vesicular stomatitis...
By: Steve Byrns Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, [email protected] Contacts: Jesse Lea Schneider, 432-295-0342, [email protected] Logan Boswell, 432-837-6207, [email protected] ALPINE – West Texas horsemen should saddle up...
By Martin Aldridge For his eighth birthday Courtney Calcagnini’s cousin was presented with a pony, complete with bow, at her aunt’s farm in Bartonville in southern...