Tales From The Trails
If you’d driven by Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center on Saturday, April 22, you might have thought there was some awful disaster going on. Fire trucks and emergency vehicles crowded the parking lot. Happily, it was nothing...
The Wellington Village Council approved a resolution Tuesday authorizing a memorandum of agreement with the Florida Department of Agriculture that will enable joint enrollment in the village’s and the state’s voluntary policies regarding equine best management practices (BMPs).
According to...
The Equestrian Aid Foundation recently announced its new horse show program, “Show You Care.” EAF provides financial assistance to members of the horse community who suffer from catastrophic illness and injury, and the organization is reaching out to horse...
Horses That Help hosted a patriotic barbecue on Saturday, May 6 at Hamlin House in The Acreage. Project 425 brought military vehicles and its Huey helicopter for guests to sit in and take photos. A barbecue lunch was enjoyed...
Tales From The Trails
Anne Leueen Willoughby leads an interesting life. She lives near Toronto with her husband, David, and winters in Palm City to work with her dressage trainer. She has owned Biasini, her Hanoverian gelding, for three years...
Jane Cleveland, chair of Wellington’s Equestrian Preserve Committee, asked Wednesday for an update on the status of Equestrian Sports Productions’ application to have portions in the entertainment section of the Equestrian Overlay Zoning District allow “floating zoning districts” in...
Tales From The Trails
The Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center hosted an instructor training certification April 5-8, sanctioned by the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH).
The equine-assisted activities industry is growing, and the need for qualified instructors is expanding along with...
A company applying to construct an equine waste treatment and recycling plant in the Everglades Agricultural Area withdrew its application at the Palm Beach County Commission transmittal hearing on Wednesday.
The applicants said they would try to settle issues that...
In an epic rematch of the 2015 U.S. Open Polo Championship final, Valiente defeated Orchard Hill 13-12 in overtime Tuesday, April 25 on Engel & Völkers field at the International Polo Club Palm Beach.
Valiente was striving for polo’s “triple...
TALES FROM THE TRAILS
Jim Masterson, the internationally renowned equine massage therapist and creator of the Masterson Method, recently spent a week teaching seminars locally. His advanced five-day course ran March 20-24, followed by a weekend workshop March 25-26, limited...
The finalists were determined Wednesday for the 2017 U.S. Open Polo Championship. Archrivals Orchard Hill and Valiente will compete Sunday at the International Polo Club Palm Beach for the top prize in American polo.
In the semifinal matches Wednesday at...
Wellington’s Planning, Zoning & Adjustment Board, in an unusually scheduled Thursday meeting last week, agreed to postpone discussion of comprehensive plan and zoning applications that would create “floating zoning districts” to allow more commercial uses, including hotels, at the...
