Team Penning: Not just horsing around
April 11, 2002 — John Hulsey remembers riding his horse down Green Street. He’d clip-clop on over to the old Royal Theater, which used to occupy the vacant lot next to Clore’s Restaurant. He’d tie up his horse and take in a movie.
This was the 1960s — not too long ago, really. Back then, Gainesville [...]
Horseback Riding: Honey back in saddle after rough ride
March 21, 2002 — For 15 seconds or so, Dodie Ellison thought that her granddaughter was dead. Nine-year-old Honey Beth Campbell lay motionless in the dirt. A horse named Hunker had just put her through hell.
When I heard the story, it made my stomach sink. In the fall of 2000, Honey gave me a lesson [...]
Eventing: Danger and the Duchess of York
July 17, 2001 — Betty Jakes felt she was going to be sick. I know this because she said so, probably not knowing that my tape recorder — recording away — was sitting [...]
Horseback Riding: Honey Beth, Hunker and Godfather II
September 12, 2000 — This is a story about a little girl and a horse. Two horses, actually.
One helped the girl win a state championship earlier this month. And the other one helped [...]
Polo: Sport of kings accessible to the masses
April 25, 2000 — Jack Cashin has the face of a man who has fought life and won.
It is weathered and lined and topped with a tussock of white hair that looks fine [...]
Cuttin’: ‘He appears more comfortable on a horse than off’
August 17, 1999 — “You know how to use a rotary phone?” C.W. Tate asked me as we walked through the stable. Tate pushed the front of his cowboy hat back on his [...]
Horseback Riding: ‘The horses listen when she talks’
March 3, 1999 — As I approached the stable, Boomer stared ahead vacantly.
Perhaps the big black lab was dreaming of supper, slumber, or soup bones — anything to take his attention away from Casey, the four-month-old Jack Russell terrier that was incessantly jumping up and nipping at his ears.
With one swipe of his mighty paw, [...]