Youth

  • Children & Horses

    Children & Horses By: Cassie Sprenger Keep your eyes up, heels down and heart on the target! There are many wonderful ways for kids to spend time with horses safely. But as kids and horses can turn into a disaster very easily, it is imperative for children to learn as many safety precautions as possible…

  • Dick And Diamond, Our Faithful Team

    Dick And Diamond, Our Faithful Team By: Larry Grambort Though they were both very solid black in color, they were easy to tell apart. Diamond had a white diamond shaped marking on his nose and one white stocking, plus he was the larger of the two. That easily made the other horse “Dick”. Interestingly, in…

  • A Pony And His Boy

    A Pony And His Boy Filmmaker: Julianne Neal A YOUNG BOY WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND HIS PONYAn award-winning, heartwarming story about an 8-year-old boy with Down Syndrome and a very special 28-year-old pony. Directed by: Julianne Neal / 25 minutes“A Pony And His Boy” has been selected to screen at the National Down Syndrome Congress.…

  • Cowboy And Cole

    Cowboy And Cole By: A Proud Mom My son Cole is 8 years old now. Though still a beginner at riding, his goal is to win the local Cowboy Classic class this year on his current horse, Spirit… they have a lot of work ahead of them to pull that off, as Spirit is still…

  • How My Rodeo Career Changed

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    How My Rodeo Career Changed A major participant in this story is my horse Buddy. By: Deanna Foster Buddy is a 15 year old registered Paint Quarter Horse that I have owned since he was 5 years old. My sister rode him for a short time before I entered the picture, and at 5 years…

  • Horses & Healing

    Horses & Healing How A Whisper Changed Lives It started with a whisper: That whisper happened in an Eau Claire WI church pew on a typical Sunday morning in 1998, but that one whisper led to something quite extraordinary. It launched Trinity Equestrian Center, (TEC). Toni Mattson owns TEC with her husband Bill and her…