TAILS FROM THE TRAILS
The Acreage is a rural community originally built with horse owners in mind. All of the streets were dirt back then: nice soft dirt, mind you, not shell rock. Vehicles drove slowly, and there were tons...
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS
Like many of us, Linda Sax was somewhat caught by surprise when Tropical Storm Isaac’s annoying persistent rain bands visited a while back... and stayed.
Sax lives in The Acreage and boards her two horses with a...
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS
Susan the Saddle Diva didn’t think twice when someone called wanting to sell her some saddles. That’s what she does, after all — buy and sell used saddles and tack.
“It was Thursday night, July 12,” she...
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS
Victoria McCullough loves animals, especially horses. She’s exuberantly ecstatic over all things equine, and lucky for them, her extremely well-heeled feet are planted firmly on the ground even while her head and heart spin grand ideas...
Ken Adams, a former Palm Beach County Commission chairman, horseman and a Wellington pioneer, spoke about the village’s potential as an equestrian community at the monthly community forum hosted by Commissioner Jess Santamaria last week at the original Wellington...
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS
Wouldn’t life be easy if horses fit into cars? We’d hold open the door, perhaps flip the front seat forward, and the horse could step gingerly into the back seat, hang his head out the window,...
Members of the Wellington Equestrian Preserve Committee had a chance last week to review the preliminary draft of a report giving an overview of Wellington’s equestrian community.
The report encompasses all the information on the equestrian community gathered as part...
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Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of columns by Ellen Rosenberg on Tropical Storm Isaac and the equestrian community.
Horses and standing water are a bad mix. Hooves can rot, develop white line disease...
Palm Beach County Health Department officials say residents and horse owners should remain vigilant of West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in the aftermath of the recent flooding.
One horse in Loxahatchee was euthanized last week after contracting West...
TAILS FROM THE TRAILS
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of columns by Ellen Rosenberg on Tropical Storm Isaac and the equestrian community.
They say you should hide from wind, but run from water. Had we known…
On Friday,...
Local businessman Jack Van Dell is hoping to bridge the gap between equestrians in the community and the businesses that serve them. In August, Van Dell, owner of Van Dell Jewelers in Wellington and Royal Palm Beach, founded the...
Pure Thoughts Horse Rescue in Loxahatchee Groves held an “Emergency Rebuild Weekend” Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1 and 2. Volunteers assisted in relocating horses from the rescue’s other locations, which were flooded due to Tropical Storm Isaac. The rescue’s...
