The stick horse rodeo will start at noon and will have two events barrel racing and pole weaving. Saturday s hitch and drive draft horse demonstrations at 9 a. This year, participants in the two-day barrel show will be competing for $2,000 in added purse money. on Saturday, In heading and healing, better known as team roping, one rider ropes the head of the steer while the second rider ropes the hind legs. There will be prizes for the winning riders in each age bracket and participation...

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The juice courses through her as she and her horse charge into the arena at full speed, racing around the three barrels and against the stopwatch measuring every hundredth of a second she takes to round each one. As barrel racing requires rider and horse to race in sync, getting the right one can make or break a team. Toward the end of last season she and her horse, Jitters, were beginning to hit their stride until there was one complication: Freemantle was six months pregnant. She tried...

Davidson has been riding horses since she was 6, and when she started competitive riding she mostly rode her clients' horses. Stories that have received the most high ratings in the last 48 hours. Davidson participated with about 110 other riders in dressage and stadium jumping Saturday and will finish off with cross country today. He's a new horse so we are getting acquainted," she said. There was also a separate dressage show going on at the same time. She said their speed and agility is...

Stick-horse barrel racing, large rocking horses and mock bull roping are also in the lineup of activities. Beginning a few months before the fair, Thompson also scheduled in about two hours a day to work on the rodeo before returning to her animals to feed them. The 4-H Club member raises pigs and a goat, and usually spends about four hours after school each day working with them. The special rodeo has calmer horses than other rodeos, and the bull is replaced by a mock bull a bale of straw...

But when it comes to the horse racing and entertainment company he controls, the picture could not be more different. Last year, Empire came in a close second in a lengthy evaluation of competitors for New York state's thoroughbred racing franchise. A review of their filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission also shows that he has not been bashful about transferring assets among his various companies to keep his bet on the future of horse racing alive. TORONTO -- Frank Stronach,...