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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
Hart of a Champion
Becky Hart was born loving horses and started riding lessons
shortly after she started kindergarten. For the past 30 years, her passion has
been endurance riding, and she's become one of the top competitors -- not just in
this country, but in the world. Many times, Hart has represented the... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
'Best' Man
Legions of trail riders know Tom Seay as the host of the
RFD-TV television program, Best
of America by Horseback. What you might not know is that Tom Seay is
a farmer first and television personality second.
The day that we caught up with him, he'd just put up 800
bales of hay from the... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Perfect Horse
Tower's Run
The first jump I take at a flat gallop, then head straight down a hill for
several hundred yards. I just love galloping downhill. It reminds me of chasing
cattle as a kid in the Australian Outback. The thought occurs to me, however,
that I shouldn't be here. My horse, Tower, is 24 years old... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
Wild About Mustangs
After most tuckered-out toddlers are lulled to sleep with a bedtime story,
their grateful parent quietly slips a well-worn book back onto the shelf. Not
so, if you're writer and filmmaker John Fusco. He and his son will soon journey
to China, as a bedtime story Fusco created becomes a lavish,... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
Mr. Appaloosa
He's known as "Mr.
Appaloosa." For more than 60 years, George Hatley's life and the great spotted
horses of Idaho's Palouse country have been inextricably
connected.
Hatley was born some
82 years ago in this country of rolling hills, golden wheat fields, and
spectacular river canyons.... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
Karen Lancaster & Equine Tourism
From
Australia's Sunshine Coast to the Great Wall of China, Hungary's Lipizzaner
Trail to Colorado's Rocky Mountains, Karen Lancaster finds the world's best
equestrian-vacation spots, then wraps them in packages for riders to enjoy. If
she weren't doing this, she says, she'd be a detective... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
Hal V. Hall: Tevis Cup Legend
On the day Hal V. Hall was born
in Auburn, California, his mother's maternity nurse drafted an announcement for
the first meeting to organize an arduous Western States One Hundred Miles in One
Day Endurance Ride -- today, known as the Tevis Cup . Years later, Hall became a
Tevis legend... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
Joan Embery and Horses
Most of us feel as though we know Joan Embery personally. For 32 years, the
goodwill ambassador for the San Diego Zoo and her critters delighted us
with
scores of appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and
his successor,
Jay Leno.
What you might not know is that in... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
An American Original: Dayton Hyde
Dayton Hyde ran away
from his Michigan home at age 13, bound for his uncle's Oregon cattle ranch, and
his life has been packed with adventure ever since. A rancher and
conservationist, he's been named a First Hero of the Earth by Eddie Bauer and an
Amazing American by People Weekly.... | read »
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On Trail: Personalities
from the pages of Trail Rider
Creative Rider
Horses are Veryl
Goodnight's passion. They carry her over rugged trails and serve as subjects for
her renowned sculptures and paintings. When she and her husband, Roger Brooks,
moved to Santa Fe, New
Mexico, they built their horse barn before they built
their home. There, her art studio... | read »
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