From Here to There: Stiles & Gaps
By Barbara Newtown. Farmers and ranchers have been building stiles and squeezing through gaps for as long as they’ve been putting up fences. Gates – especially gates that are Continue Reading →
Category Archives: History
Secret To Success: a Derby Win and Racing’s Doping Addiction
by Ryan Goldberg, ProPublica. On looks alone, Northern Dancer did not stand out as he entered the starting gate for the 90th running of the Kentucky Derby in 1964. He Continue Reading →
Old Wives Tales about Horses
By Dr. Kelly Hudspeth, DVM. There are tons of sayings about horses and owning horses. Although we do not know the reason a saying gets started, it is fun to Continue Reading →
Source of the Gaited Gene
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany, surmise that gaited horses developed from a mutation that appeared in English horses by the 9th Continue Reading →
White House Equestrians
Horses and Presidents have been a good combination, especially since the start of the twentieth century, when dealing with horses became a choice, not a necessity. When a President is on a horse, Continue Reading →
Sabers, Horses, and General Patton
George Patton, the general who led the U. S. Army through the “Battle of the Bulge” in World War II, was a master of the saber and a fine Continue Reading →
