After a six-year ban and numerous attempts by activists to stop it, horse slaughter returns to the United States next month. A horse slaughterhouse is slated to open for the first time since 2007 in New Mexico. As a...
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The Fourth of July — a holiday most Americans celebrate with great enthusiasm, but one that many local horse owners dread.
“Unless you’re a horse person, you don’t understand how fireworks can literally scare a horse to...
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The flier says it all: the experience of a lifetime.
This summer, the Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center, located at 13300 6th Court North in Loxahatchee Groves, offered three separate week-long summer camps Tuesday through Friday, from 9...
The 2014 Global Dressage Festival season is on. Members of the Wellington Village Council gave necessary approvals Tuesday to allow for the upcoming dressage show season at the controversial Equestrian Village site.
Council members unanimously approved both a plat and...
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“I had just purchased a lovely 5-year-old Warmblood. I hadn’t even finished paying for him,” Ruth Mack recalled. “I live in California, and I’d shipped him with the rest of my barn’s horses to Wellington for...
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“That’s it, darling! That’s the way to do it.” Sitting in a plastic lawn chair, Julius von Uhl booms at the rider who makes the correction. “There, now. Isn’t that better?”
It is, indeed, better. Thirteen-year-old Chirsten...
BY ALEXANDRA ANTONOPOULOS
The Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center celebrated its summer polo camp finals Friday, June 21 with Polo & Punch. Sponsored by Everglades Farm Equipment, FPL and the Palm Beach Kennel Club, the event gave campers the opportunity to...
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Carlos Gonzalez is passionate about the things in his life: his wife, his children, his horses and his sport, which happens to be polo. He grew up playing polo in his native Argentina, moved to South...
Wellington’s Equestrian Preserve Committee recommended approval Wednesday, June 12 of an ordinance that would allow residents in the Rustic Ranches community more lot coverage.
Wellington Principal Planner Bill Nemser told committee members that currently Rustic Ranches has 5-acre and 10-acre...
Wellington will get some reprieve from its legal woes after the owners of the Equestrian Village site accepted an agreement to halt litigation for 180 days and refile permit applications.
Village Manager Paul Schofield told the Town-Crier on Tuesday that...
Legions of readers are eagerly awaiting the next steps of author Tami Hoag’s Minneapolis investigators, Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska.
Her latest mystery novel, The 9th Girl, was released June 19. It will be followed by the June 25 ShowChic...
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One evening a few weeks back, I heard my dogs barking. I looked out — people walking past, someone riding by. Ten minutes later, they were still barking. I went out to investigate and found every...
