Category: Equine Organizations

  • When The Race Is Over

    When The Race Is Over Story: Jay HovdeyPhotography: Annie Marie Musselman Silver Charm, a 1,200-pound Thoroughbred with a white coat peppered by tiny flecks of gray, leaned over the top railing of the pasture fence and nibbled at the lips of the man with the cap turned backwards. Michael Blowen, his eyes closed, accepted the…

  • Eau Claire Bit & Spur Club Story

    Eau Claire Bit & Spur Club Story For our readers who like to follow stories that have been published in our previous issues, we’ll re-introduce an article from our April 2015 copy, then called Horse N Around Magazine. In it we introduced the early beginnings of the Eau Claire Bit & Spur Club. This copy,…

  • Bureau Of Land Management Wild Horse And Burros Roundup

    Bureau Of Land Management Wild Horse And Burros Roundup Animal groups team up with cattlemen to depopulate wild horses and burros from the west. By: Wayne Pacelle Wild horses and burros face unprecedented mass removal from our public lands in the West. A key Senate committee appropriated tens of millions in new monies for the…

  • Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch

    Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch The Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch is a world-renowned animal sanctuary in Murchison, Texas founded in 1979 by author and animal advocate Cleveland Amory. In 2005 the board of directors of The Fund for Animals voted unanimously to memorialize its late, great founder by renaming its flagship animal sanctuary in…

  • Southwest Florida Horse Rescue Organization

    Southwest Florida Horse Rescue Organization By: Tina Garrett From the early stages of childhood I’ve always had a connection with horses. Growing up in foster care my only comfort was animals. When the day came that I was sent to a new foster home, then discovered they had a pony, I became aware of just…

  • Back Country Horsemen of America – Recreation and Preservation

    Back Country Horsemen of America – Recreation and Preservation By: Sarah Wynn Jackson From its inception over 40 years ago, Back Country Horsemen of America established a solid reputation as a service organization. Its members are known as hard-working, knowledgeable folks who turn up when there is a job to be done. Some people wonder…

  • Road To The Horse Collegiate Colt Starting Challenge

    Road To The Horse Collegiate Colt Starting Challenge The Road to the Horse Collegiate Colt Starting Challenge was held in conjunction with the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. In a spectacular display of horsemanship, North Central Texas College, Texas Tech and West Texas A&M University went head to head in a competition that came…

  • Hurricane Harvey Makes TX Horses Refugees in CO

    Hurricane Harvey Makes TX Horses Refugees in CO On a late September Sunday morning at barely 1AM, sixteen miniature horses emerged from a trailer to glimpse their new surroundings.  It had been a long, sixteen-hour journey direct from the Houston SPCA’s equine facility in Hempstead, Texas to the Harmony Equine Center in Franktown, Colorado, part…

  • Road To The Horse Features Australian Dan James

    Road To The Horse Features Australian Dan James He’s no stranger to Road to the Horse. The crew loves him, the fans love him, let’s just be honest, everyone loves the charismatic Australian horseman, Dan James! Since his very first appearance at Road to the Horse 2012, fans have had a front row seat to…