News Archive
May 2008 - Nico Del Serro, 15, Wins NCHA Eastern
Regional Cutting Horse Championship
by Stephanie Lawson
Nico Del Serro, age 15, riding Santa Cruz Sandman, won the $3,000 Novice Non-Pro championship title,
with a score of 216 points at the National Cutting Horse Association Eastern National Championships held in
Jackson, MS, in March.
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May 2008 - Suzanne Myers Wins the Midwest Mustang Challenge
by Nancy Degutis
When a Spanish grullo arrived at her barn four months ago, Suzanne Myers did not know how he would react to civilization.
Just a month before, three-year–old "Jazz" had been running free on the government-owned prairie grasslands of Nevada . He had never seen a human being until wranglers from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounded him up and took him and a band he lived with to an adoption site in Illinois.
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May 2008 - Stroudsburg Woman Creates Organization to Help Young Riders in Malawi
By Suzanne Bush
If all you know about Malawi is that Madonna adopted a baby there, then listen up. Close your eyes and think about a country and a continent so exotic and far away that many people can't even imagine the startling blue of the sky when rain is coming, or the hippos dozing in the river. Sure, there are crocodiles and elephants and all the things that people expect in Africa. But there is also something else in Malawi, something that draws far-away African life into a comfortable niche that every equestrian can appreciate.
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May 2008 - As Commodity Prices Rise, Vets, Farriers Feel the Pinch
By Suzanne Bush
As fuel costs increase, consumers make choices. They drive less. They combine errands. They carpool to work.
But what about people whose livelihoods require them to drive…and drive…and drive? They don't have the luxury of choice. Veterinarians, equine dentists, farriers and others who care for horses are facing daunting challenges as gas prices rise. They don't have the luxury of driving less, because the distance between the veterinarian and a horse in trouble doesn't lend itself to economics.
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May 2008 - Manure Digesters Shed a Different Light on Horse Power
By Suzanne Bush
As the world's demand for energy gallops ahead of suppliers' ability to produce it, rising prices are causing more than gas pains for consumers. Few aspects of daily life remain untouched by the twin demons of pollution and skyrocketing fuel costs. Will we run out of air before we run out of the fuels that are polluting the air? Will corn deliver us from our dependence on foreign oil? While experts disagree about where to look for new energy, whether ethanol is a feasible alternative to oil and how to assess the environmental impact of the internal combustion engine, most concur that there is not going to be a single solution.
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March 2008 - Mutliple Factors Cause
Cost of Keeping Horses to Skyrocket
by Suzanne Bush
As prices of fuel, feed and bedding rise simultaneously,
stable owners in Pennsylvania are grappling with what might be called a
perfect storm—a combination of events that is demolishing profits and
wreaking havoc with business plans.
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March 2008 - Back From the Brink, Castle Rock Savors Hard Fought Success
by Terry Conway
Like many Pennsylvania horsemen, four years ago Pete
Giangiulio was in debt and losing traction quickly.
On a cold and dank February afternoon he met his sister
Barbara and her husband William Geraghty for what Giangiulio calls a
rather grim business lunch at the Marshallton Inn. A practicing attorney
in West Chester, Pa., Giangiulio laid out three scenarios for their
Castle Rock Farm near Unionville that his father had purchased in 1957,
and doggedly built it into a full-service thoroughbred operation.
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March 2008 - Track Injury Reporting: Intriguing Numbers, Lots of Questions
by Suzanne Bush
Since last June, racetracks across the United States have
been gathering statistics on race-day injuries to horses. This pilot study,
initiated by the Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, and
underwritten by grants from the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and
the Jockey Club, was designed to identify the frequency and types of
injuries to racehorses, using a format that would standardize the data. The
data presumably would yield clues that could lead to strategies for reducing
catastrophic injuries to racehorses. At the American Association of Equine
Practitioners (AAEP) meeting in December, preliminary results of the
research were presented.
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March 2008 - Horse of the Year Donato Hanover Returns Home to Start Breeding Career
by Stephanie Lawson
It's the Coolmore of Standardbreds, the Three Chimneys of
Pennsylvania. It's home to all the greatest stallions in that other race
world of trotting and pacing.
Hanover Shoe Farms lies just outside Hanover, PA, just
beyond the Adams/York County border. The buildings have a historic feel. Not
palatial, but functional and solid, with the feel of history -- not only
past but also in the making.
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