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I had never really given much thought to the guys who deliver hay as I mostly deal with their boss, the farmer. It’s up to him or her to hire and supervise his/her staff. One day, when my young barn helper, who was in her early twenties, and I were working together, I told her that we might be interrupted as my farmer was coming to fill the hayloft with second cutting hay. Her big blue eyes lit up as she inquired with high expectations: “Are they cute?” I must have looked surpr...

The Ohio Quarter Horse Association’s Congress Tri-Chairmen and Sale Committee decided to proceed with the 2020 Super Sale in an online platform this past August, after the cancellation of the 2020 All American Quarter Horse Congress. Mike Jennings of Professional Horse Services, LLC, said, “There was a record number of registered bidders at 739 and a record number of page views for our internet auction site at 401,416 when the auction closed for the 2020 Congress Super Sale.&rdqu...

Hannah Hughes, Fort Scott cowgirl, credits her horse team of Ziggy, Rocket and Effie for much of her rodeo success. “Nod. Swing. Throw.”   Watch stops, rodeo announcer excitedly broadcasts: “1.9-seconds moves Hannah Hughes into the lead in breakaway roping.”   Three steps required to be one of the very best cowgirl ropers in the country seems simple to a reader.   Spectators in the rodeo bleachers who blinked at the wrong seco...

New York Times Image Crab cakes, blackeyed susans, orioles, and the second jewel in the Triple Crown of thoroughbred horse racing, the Preakness at Baltimore’s Pimlico racetrack all conjure up dreams of the great state of Maryland, home to many magnificent horse farms. Nothing else was traditional this year. For starters, the Preakness was the third race in the triple crown, after the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes, and usually, it’s the second one. The race was held in ea...

At the Pro Rodeo Tour Finale last month, Jesse Pope was champion in bareback bronc riding with 90 points.  Making the buzzer is the first requirement of becoming a champion rodeo rough stock contestant.  Jesse Pope scored on all but one of 42 bareback bronc rides this year in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).  Importantly as well many of the world’s top bucking horses were among his draws earning the cowboy big rodeo checks.   His career...

If I happen to come across a fly in my house, I'll do one of two things. I'll either do my impression of Terminator by going mad with the fly spray or wallop it with the daily newspaper. No matter how I get rid of them, it seems another one comes along shortly after. To say they're annoying is an understatement, but at least I have some control over them even though it can sometimes be brutal. So how must a horse feel about the pesky, irritating little blighters? After all, it...