Ellen Rosenberg
Pure Thoughts Rescues Nurse Mare Foals
By Ellen Rosenberg at May 17, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS Some practices are so cruel that you shake your head in bewilderment and wonder, who thinks of such things? Apparently enough people that the practice of producing nurse mare foals is fairly common. Here’s how it works. Let’s say you own an expensive, well-bred mare, either a show horse or, more commonly, a Thoroughbred race horse more...
Elena Oleinikova Now Offers Equine Massage
By Ellen Rosenberg at May 10, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS Elena Oleinikova came a long way to live and work in Wellington. She grew up and began her riding career in Moscow. “I feel lucky,” she said. “You would think that living in Russia might be scary, but it wasn’t. They had a different system, nothing to be scared of. I always loved horses, and when I was 3 years old, the state built the more...
Diane Gonzalez Has A Passion For Pets
By Ellen Rosenberg at May 3, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS For some of us, our pets are not like family — they are family. So when vacations and other times arise when we have to go away and leave them, it can present a real dilemma: board them elsewhere, or leave them at home and hire a pet sitter? A variety of factors come into play, including cost, the animals’ preferences and your own peace of more...
Desert Rose Ranch In Jupiter Is A Happy Place
By Ellen Rosenberg at April 26, 2013 | 12:00 am | 1 Comments
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS Pam LiVecchi, owner of Desert Rose Ranch, cares passionately about horses and people. I first met her at a Palm Beach County Mounted Posse show and was immediately impressed with the barn’s overall atmosphere. She had quite a few horses and students in a variety of classes, and the trainers worked with both horses and riders in a sane, more...
Great Deals At The Vinceremos Tack Sale
By Ellen Rosenberg at April 19, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS Saturday, March 30, was the perfect day for a tack sale. Not too hot, not too cold, not too windy, no rain. The sale started at 9 a.m., and I arrived shortly thereafter, bumping down Collecting Canal Road to the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center at 13300 Sixth Court North in Loxahatchee Groves. Some buyers had already been and gone; others more...
A Lovely Night As WEF Ends 2013 Run
By Ellen Rosenberg at April 12, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS Saturday, March 30 was the perfect evening to mosey over to Wellington and enjoy the jumping under the lights at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Apparently, a lot of people made the same decision, for the place was packed with 8,600 enthusiastic fans running the gamut from babes in strollers to strolling seniors, texting teens and more...
British Feed Company Marks Grand Opening
By Ellen Rosenberg at April 5, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS You couldn’t have asked for better weather. Friday evening, March 29, was mild, neither too hot nor too humid. The gale-force winds that had roared across South Florida earlier in the week had quieted to a comfy breeze. All of which served as a perfect setting for the British Feed Company’s grand opening at their new location at 14589 Southern more...
Beware: There Are Coyotes Among Us!
By Ellen Rosenberg at March 29, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS If you listen late at night or right around sunrise, you might hear them. More yipping than howling, and usually more than one. No, you’re not in the middle of the desert or on the set of a western. We have coyotes right here in Palm Beach County. According to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), coyotes are members more...
Nora Janssen Of Karen’s Equine Intervention
By Ellen Rosenberg at March 22, 2013 | 12:00 am | 0 Comment
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS Nora Janssen has found a way to marry two lifelong commitments: helping people and helping horses. She has been a registered nurse for many years, working in emergency rooms and specializing in psychiatric nursing. “I use a lot of interaction and intervention when dealing with fearful or aggressive patients,” she said. Janssen has been a more...
Shopping For A Saddle At The Silver Spur
By Ellen Rosenberg at March 15, 2013 | 12:00 am | 1 Comments
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS I recently added another horse to the herd and, as frequently happens, this meant I also needed another saddle. People tend to think about saddles as fitting their seats comfortably, when in truth, much more important is whether or not it fits the horse’s back comfortably. If it doesn’t fit you, you end up with a sore butt. If it doesn’t more...
