By Justin High, DVM
Right now I am sitting at my computer writing this, and it’s 72 degrees and 83 percent humidity. In less than 24 hours, the temperature is set to drop to 35 degrees with rain and 17 mph winds! I love Texas, but I love it more in the summertime. So, when it comes to preparing our horses for weather like this, we need to plan ahead, just as you would with your stall water, or pipes.
The new pony continues to be an emerging dream. Robbie Boyce showed her in the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity Open, missed the semis by a half-point but made the John Deere Open finals. Needed more cow, but no penalties. They finished 11th for 3,900 some odd dollars. Earning her Certificate of Ability, she is now an official cutting horse.
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A mecate http://bit.ly/1NRKjn1 is a rein made of a single piece of rope, usually twisted horse hair or nylon. Mecates are used on hackamores and snaffle bits. A bosal http://bit.ly/1WeeGIQ is the noseband of a hackamore and when a headstall is attached it is known as a hackamore.
Nicole Den Dulk riding a trot pattern on Chromed Tejon.The World Para Reining (WPR) organization is dedicated to fostering competitive reining events for disabled riders around the world. The exciting conclusion of the WPR 2015 Championship Series took place at the American Quarter Horse Association World Show in Oklahoma City on Nov. 15.
The U.S. House of Representatives is considering a resolution to impeach Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen for violation of the public trust, failing to comply with congressionally issued subpoenas and misleading the public over IRS practices of targeting conservative groups in audits. The last time Congress tried to remove a public official via impeachment was in 1876, when Secretary of War William Belknap was impeached on allegations he had helped himself to war funds. He resigned under pressure from President Grant.
IRS agents are often viewed with disdain by people subjected to audits, especially in the horse industry because agents frequently do not understand the intricacies of breeding, racing or showing.
Courtesy of Equine GuelphWhat differentiates Equine Metabolic Syndrome from PPID (pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction or "Cushings")?
This is just one of the 20 questions in Equine Guelph's free interactive Senior Horse Challenge quiz, designed to help horse owners recognize changes that may impact the health of their elderly equines.
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True to form, High Brow Cat progeny dominated percentages in the 2015 NCHA World Championship Open Futurity field, with 58% of the 2012 foal crop entered.
While many of the top Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) competitors have multiple chances throughout their careers to win gold buckles and titles in the events they compete in, there is one award that a competitor has only one shot at: the coveted Resistol Rookie of the Year.
Casey Deary • Photo by Kelsey PecsekNational Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Professional Casey Deary has earned over a Million Dollars in NRHA competition and is justifiably proud and awed by his accomplishment. Deary, known as a devoted family man, has his own cheerleaders in his wife Nicole Deary and their children Wyatt, Joy, Owen and Olivia. Deary, of Weatherford, Texas, earned his first NRHA paycheck on November 4, 2000, in Katy, Texas, at the Saltgrass Steak House Warmup show aboard Crome Marks (Crome Plated Jac x Marks Lee Ann x Marks Alynx), owned by Maureen Underwood. The young horseman earned $82 – a far cry from his most recent paycheck of $161,466 for winning the NRHA Open Futurity Level 4 division riding Shesouttayourleague for owner Curtis Performance Horses LLC! To say Deary had a good November and December is a monumental understatement.
