Quarter Horse Racing

Quarter Horse Articles

Blazing fast takeoff, straining fast-twitch muscles…and it’s over, just like that! If you daydream in the gate, you’ve already lost the race.  Spectators start screaming as soon as the gates open, and they keep screaming for the next twenty seconds.  If you can hit 55 mph in a few strides, a quarter mile doesn’t take much time.  Even the jockeys scream, it’s so exciting.  The whole race happens right in front of the grandstand.  The Quarter Horse is America’s Horse:  we do love to push the pedal to the metal.

Jumonville Farms: Taking Quarter Horse Breeding into the Future

  By Barbara Newtown. J. E. Jumonville, Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, lives with his wife Bunny…
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Q & A with Steven DeVille, Stallion Manager at Copper Crowne & LACER

By Barbara Newtown. Steven DeVille is the Stallion Manager at Acadiana Equine Hospital at Copper Crowne and at LACER, the…
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Caleb Findley, Stallion Manager at Delta Equine Center in Vinton, Louisiana

  By Barbara Newtown. Delta Equine Center in Vinton, Louisiana, is a labor of love for the extended Findley family.…
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