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FEATURED ARTICLES What We Did On Our Summer Vacation............................... Cover EMCC Men’s Rodeo Team........................................ Cover White House Equestrians......................................... Cover The Struggle is Real................................ .11 Source of the Gaited Horse....................13 Slipstreaming.............................................17 Gift Horse..................................................28 Equine Infectious Anemia/Coggins.......................................34 The Importance of Equine Genetic Testing..........................................36 Old Wives Tales about Horses..............................................38 Racing in the Rain.....................................41 Eventing, The Equine Triathlon.......................................46 Oldenburg Inspection at Newtown Farm..........................................47 Tyler Waguespack snares All American ProRodeo Title........................58
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WHAT WE DID ON OUR SUMMER VACATION by Martha Claussen
This is a slightly deceptive title to this month’s LQHBA Insider as the very busy Louisiana Quarter Horse community is blessed with a full racing calendar and very lucrative breeding program. We decided to check in with a few of the hardworking association members to see what they have been up to between the Fair Grounds and Evangeline Downs meets. Dr. Larry Findley LQHBA board member Larry Findley, DVM, founded Delta Equine Center in 1983. His practice and equine emergency clinic is open seven days a week throughout the year, but Dr. Findley explains that many important goals are reached between race meets. Continued on page 57...
EMCC men’s rodeo team collects first-place honors at Murray State-hosted Ozark Region event MURRAY, Ky. – The East Mississippi Community College men’s rodeo team enjoyed a successful weekend in Kentucky by claiming team honors and also finishing third during back-to-back, two-day NIRA Ozark Region rodeos hosted by Murray State University. The four-day Racer Roundup College Rodeo concluded Sunday at the Bill Cherry Expo Center. After placing third as a team during initial rodeo competition held Thursday and Friday, the EMCC men’s team compiled 765 total points this past weekend to garner top honors over Missouri Valley College. The Lions scored 275 team points earlier in the week to finish behind MVC (520 points) and UT Martin (395). Continued on page 25...
White House Equestriansby Barbara Newtown
Horses and Presidents have been a good combination, especially since the start of the twentieth century, when dealing with horses became a choice, not a necessity. When a President is on a horse, the rest of the world stares up in awe. And, in some mysterious way, the horse’s prodigious strength and handsomeness multiplies whatever strength and handsomeness a President might claim. Some Presidents swore by riding as a fine form of exercise (Reagan and Coolidge); some Presidents came from the mounted cavalry tradition and kept riding through their years in office (Teddy Roosevelt); Continued on page 10...
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