Tyler Bui

The Andrew Ryback Photography and The Plaid Horse Higher Learning Scholarship has awarded more than $15,000 to equestrians pursuing higher education. To provide more education opportunities for young riders, MZ Farms, LLC has generously donated a second $2,500 scholarship for 2023. Previously, MZ F…

The Plaid Horse will return to the Desert International Horse Park in Thermal, CA as an Official Media Partner, providing expanded coverage of DIHP events from November 2022 through March 2023 and will be onsite throughout the 2023 Desert Circuit. The Desert International Horse Park is one of the la…

Edited Press Release Lexington, Ky. – US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athletes selected to represent the U.S. Jumping Team at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Vejer de la Frontera CSIO3* in Vejer de la Frontera, Spain, from October 27-30, 2022, and FEI Jumping Nations Cup Vilamoura CSIO3* in Vil…

By Tyler Bui If you asked Halie Robinson years ago what her dream barn might look like, she would have described the barn she has now. “I have always had a very specific vision for what I’ve wanted the barn to be and what I wanted the horses to be,” Robinson tells The Plaid Horse. […]

By Abby Funk The benefits of having fit horses are almost too numerous to mention. Fit horses will have fewer injuries, longer careers, more rapid recovery time, and be better able to cope with all the demands of travel and horse show life. Whether your goals are maintaining fitness, increasing fitn…

BY TYLER BUI Meet the women behind Whitethorne LLC, the highly successful training and sales operation out of Southern California. Led by Georgy Maskrey-Segesman, these professionals are able to make a difference through their unique skill sets that maintain Whitethorne’s high level of care, educati…

By Tyler Bui Airlie Corder is leading by example. The 12-year-old rider has dedicated herself to every aspect of the sport, in and out of the saddle. Airlie took her first lesson at age six at Champions Corner in Wilmington, NC, and today, her family owns and operates Azalea Coast Farm in Wilmington, NC, where […]

BY TYLER BUI Dominique Mungin unintentionally reignited her love for the equitation as an adult amateur when bringing along a young horse—and she’s glad she did so. In 2021, she rode to the reserve championship in the THIS NHS Adult Equitation Championship and has continued to foster her love for the equitation this year.  Mungin’s mother, […]

BY TYLER BUI Transforming Jaz Creek, Northern California’s newest horse facility, was an ambitious endeavor to reshape the family horse property into a world class training and boarding facility. For years, the property had been home to a handful of the family’s horses, a small hunter/jumper breedin…

BY TYLER BUI Ashwood Farm, owned and operated by Mary Ann Thomas with the help of her two daughters Abby and Emmalee Funk, has collected a multitude of accolades this summer. Most recently, their team completed two successful weeks at Traverse City Horse Shows in Traverse City, MI, finishing off t…

BY TYLER BUI  Eighteen-year-old Kennedi Kunkle is enjoying her first year as an adult amateur: Finding her love for the adult equitation medals, she sits in the top ten of the THIS/NHS Adult Medal rankings.  Kunkle began riding in 2016, joining an Interscholastic Equestrian Association (IEA) team and showing Thoroughbreds on the local circuit for […]

The Plaid Horse Publisher Piper Klemm, Ph.D has been invited to judge the College Preparatory Invitational Horse Show on September 3 – 4, 2022 in Asbury, New Jersey for the second year. The College Preparatory Invitational Horse Show (CPI) provides aspiring young riders in grades 8-12 with the op…

Edited Press Release Dedicated to shaping riders of all ages, Taylor Harris Insurance Services (THIS) has partnered with Traverse City Horse Shows (TCHS) in 2022 to debut the all-new THIS Children’s Pony Medal. Offering new and innovative opportunities for Children’s pony riders, the THIS Children’s…

American Equestrian School (AES)—a highly selective accelerated private school program for students passionate about the equestrian industry—is pleased to announce that enrollment is open for Fall 2022 to students in grades 6-12. More information about this exciting program is available in weekly We…

Edited Press Release SILVER CREEK, WA – World-renowned horse trainer Mark Bolender, known for his Bolender Method™ and for developing the International Mountain Trail Challenge Association (IMTCA) with wife Lee Bolender, will be demonstrating with Checkers, now a Breyer Model Horse, at the Midwest H…

Horse racing is one of the most adrenaline-inducing sports in the world. Lots of factors can influence the outcome of a race, which makes picking that elusive winner all the more rewarding. The payouts when you do back the winning horse can also be pretty significant — especially if it’s an outsider…

Edited Press Release New York, NY. (March 1, 2022) –Genevieve Rohner recently became age-eligible to compete internationally, though she has been riding 10 years. Supported by the Metropolitan Equestrian Team’s (MET) Equine Opportunity Program (EOP), Rohner will become the youngest classified para d…

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Dr. Piper Klemm, publisher of The Plaid Horse, returned to the The Equestrian College Advisor Live show on March 7, 2022, where she and Randi C. Heathman discussed female entrepreneurship, grit, toughness, and girl power in equine education. The Equestrian College Advisor offers college counseling …