March/April 2025 - Horse World Expo Celebrates 22 Years in Harrisburg, PA with World Class Shopping, Exciting Competitions, Family Entertainment, Top Clinicians & Theatre Equus The world of all things horses returns to the 25-acre climate-controlled Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, PA February 27 to March 2. Horse World Expo, the east coast’s largest and best-attended equestrian expo, features four days of non-stop education, entertainment and shopping. Scores of horses representing a large variety of breeds and types and leading equestrian clinicians and entertainers draw tens of thousands of horse enthusiasts from across the eastern United States and beyond. Read full article >>
March/April 2025 - The Horse Will See You Now Temple Grandin, the renowned author, college professor, Keynote speaker at the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show and advocate for the humane treatment of animals, believes that animals—especially horses—have the power to transform lives. “Horses can help us to develop a sense of trust, empathy and compassion,” she wrote. Read full article >>
March/April 2025 - Born with Limb Deformities, Chincoteague Colt Finds a Home for Life May 9, 2024 was an unseasonably hot spring day on the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. This is the day that 25-year-old mare, ShyAnne gave birth to a beautiful dark bay pinto colt by the stallion Ajax. The colt was a little premature and his legs were not quite right. Slowly, he scrambled to his feet. Read full article >>
March/April 2025 - A Different Cohort for Equi-Therapy: Saly Glassman’s Focus Is First Responders Saly Glassman has been involved with horses for most of her life. Well, some might say that horses have been her life—along with her family, her community involvement and her enormously successful 40-year career at Merrill Lynch. “I was already kind of thinking about what am I going to do? This offer (from her partners) to buy me out really gave me an opportunity to think about what I wanted to do next.” Glassman is the sort of person human resources folks used to call a “self-starter.” Read full article >>
March/April 2025 - Maryland’s $400 Million Plan to Reenergize Racing Takes Shape A historic thoroughbred breeding farm outside Baltimore was selected as the future site of a new year-round training center, part of a $400 million plan to preserve and reenergize horse racing in the state of Maryland. The announcement of the selection of Shamrock Farm by the Maryland Thoroughbred Racetrack Operating Authority late last year, solidified a key component of a sweeping plan to restore the storied Pimlico Racetrack, home to the Preakness Stakes. Read full article >>
Winter 2024/2025 - ‘Ghost Consulting’, Obfuscation Roil Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horseman’s Association The Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horseman’s Association (PTHA) board president, Robert Hutt, in an August Zoom meeting with PTHA members and directors, expressed frustration and anger about a number of structural and policy issues that he says have thwarted him from fulfilling his responsibilities. Hutt, who is 78, became president in 2023, defeating previous president Sal De Bunda, who held the office for 12 years and was running for a fifth three-year term. Read full article >>
Winter 2024/2025 - Corcoran Survives Flight Changes, Blinding Storm at World Endurance Championships Some horses make a routine trail ride into an intractable contest of wills. If you need to trailer to get to the ride, will he load calmly for the trip to the trail? Or will he stand there, stubbornly, as if planted in concrete, giving the trailer ramp the stink eye? Will she decide that today is the day when every squirrel will look like Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street? Read full article >>
Winter 2024/2025 - Hot Summer Leads to Expensive Hay “Everyone talks about the weather,” American essayist Charles Dudley Warner said, “but nobody does anything about it.” Indeed. As the summer of 2024 recedes into memory, many people may forget that it was the hottest summer ever recorded in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) history. Read full article >>
Winter 2024/2025 - Jason and Crystal Charles: A Love of Horses Connects Their Family While most kids are still in bed, four-year-old Isla Mae and her sister, eight-year-old Ayla Lyn, are cleaning stalls before school. However, that is not the end of a day’s work. After school, the two sisters perform numerous farm chores and outdoor activities instead of watching television or using electronics. To some this may seem too demanding at such a young age. But both children agree that the least favorite part of their day is going to bed. Read full article >>
Winter 2024/2025 - Big Crowd Turns Up for Chincoteague Fall Roundup On September 20 and 21 the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company held its annual fall roundup at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Auction on Assateague Island in Virginia. The last batch of fall pickup foals from the Pony Penning auction were picked up by their buyers to be transported home. Read full article >>
