In This Issue: Women In The Horse Industry Youth Pages.................... 7, 31 & 46 4-H..................................................16 Equine Health by Neely...............23 Therapeutic Riding.......................29 Cattle Producers of Louisiana.......68
FEATURED ARTICLES Louise Fox.................................Cover Kalee McCann..........................Cover Michele Rodriguez...................Cover Miss Rodeo Mississippi 2015 Laura Sumrall....................................7 Miss Rodeo America 2015 Lauren Heaton................................24 Tori LeBlanc....................................26 Kayli Meaux....................................45 Breakaway Barn..............................55 Michall Broussard..........................56 The Young Family..........................64
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Lungeing and Long Reining with Louise Fox
By Barbara Newtown
On February 7th, Louise Fox gave a demonstration of lungeing and long reining techniques. Her talk took place in the indoor arena at Riverpoint Equestrian Center in Haughton, Louisiana, where the attendees not only listened to Louise but also watched theory in action as Louise worked three horses at different stages of development. Continued on page 11..
Kalee McCann, AQHYA President By Barbara Newtown Kalee McCann, 19 years old, is the President of the American Quarter Horse Youth Association. She is currently a freshman at East Central Community College in Decatur, Mississippi. She will be transferring to Texas A & M in August to continue her studies in chemistry, and will ride on A & M’s equestrian team. She hopes to go on to dental school and specialize in pediatric orthodontics. “Most of my family hates going to the dentist, but I have always enjoyed going. I’ve had good teeth my whole life!” Kalee is from Sebastopol, Mississippi, which, she says, is very small. Her family lives on a farm on the outskirts of town, right beside her grandparents. Her little brother Wyatt, 16, is a roper, so they have a roping arena. The family has 150 Longhorn cows and “plenty of horses” and a big barn on about 75 acres. Kalee explains that when Longhorns are
born, they have little knobs where the horns will start growing in about two months. “We want our cows to keep their horns,” she says. Continued on page 28..
Michele Rodriguez: Raising, Racing, and Rescuing By Barbara Newtown
Michele Rodriguez, owner (with her husband, Lee Daniel Thomas) of Elite Thoroughbreds and a member of the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association Board of Directors, gives avid support to the Louisiana-bred incentive program. (Go to the LTBA website www. louisianabred.com to download the By-Laws.) Michele contends that the Louisiana breeders’ awards program is among the most lucrative in the country. For instance, each of the four racetracks in the state offers a day of stakes races exclusively showcasing Louisiana bred horses; no other state
offers more than one for the whole state.
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