Meet the MyHorse.com bloggers! Every week some of the best equine editors and journalists in the business will share insights and encouragements to help inspire your passion in the equine sport of your choice.
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Blog Name: Rodeo Blog
Blog Description:After five years as the managing editor for Spin To Win Rodeo Magazine and a two-year stint at the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, Bob has developed a handful of relationships in the industry. He travels to many of the major rodeos from his home outside of Colorado Springs, Colo., and when he’s not writing for the magazine or at a rodeo, he’s caring for yearling cattle turned out on pasture near his home or helping on the family ranch.
Drop him a line at rodeoblog@myhorse.com.
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Blog Name: Straight from Baleno's Lips
Blog Description:Emily Esterson neighed in her sleep when she was two years old, her mother reports. In college and through her twenties she worked as a groom at eventing and dressage facilities, and got her first horse at age 30. Her first professional writing job was for the newsletter, The Trail Less Traveled. She's evented through preliminary and shown second level dressage, with hopes to move up to FEI levels sometime in the next two decades. She owns a ragtag band of three horses, two goats, two dogs and three cats, a husband and a few acres in central New Mexico. Emily makes her living writing about horses and business for national magazines. Her book, The Adult Longeing Guide, is due out in February.
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Blog Name: Hoof Prints and Camp Smoke
Blog Description:An avid trail rider and horsecamper for over 40 years, Bonnie Davis has presented workshops, lectures and presentations on maintaining, preserving and developing trails, horsecamps and trail riding. Her trail and horsecamping columns, articles and stories have appeared in local, national and worldwide publications. She maintains that “recreational trail riders are the backbone of the horse industry yet we are the most overlooked within the industry itself!” Along with Bonnie’s trail riding and camping, she maintains a nation wide presentation schedule, is Consulting Editor for “Trail Rider” magazine, owner of Two Horse Enterprises, (www.twohorseenterprises.com) dedicated to trail riding and horsecamping, and website www.weedfreefeed.com for locating certified weed free feeds when on public lands.
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Blog Name: Carrots for Courage
Blog Description:It's been said that, "Maureen Gallatin is like a life coach through the grid of horsemanship." She is a writer, speaker, and consultant, and she teaches frequently on the topic of developing confidence. She’s known for her brand of practical wisdom and insights with an inspirational bent. (In fact, it's been quipped that when she's old and in the nursing home, she'll be using stick horses to teach people about life and relationships.) Maureen was the editor for Perfect Horse magazine for 10 years, and is the founder of Inspired By Horses (www.inspiredbyhorses.com).
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Blog Name: The Equine Things that Matter Most
Blog Description:John Strassburger, the Horse Journal's Performance Editor, has spent four decades riding horses across the countryside and in numerous competitive disciplines. He's a graduate A Pony Clubber and currently competing in eventing through the intermediate level, but he's also foxhunted for nearly 40 years, ridden in steeplechase races for 10 years, has logged nearly 500 miles in endurance riding, and competed in dressage, equitation, hunter and jumper classes. As editor of The Chronicle of the Horse for 20 years, he covered six Olympics and thousands competitions, including hunter/jumper, combined driving, dressage and eventing. With his wife, Heather Bailey, he now operates Phoenix Farm, a breeding and training facility in California
(www.phoenixsporthorses.com).
You can correspond with John by emailing him through Horse Journal at hjeditor@twcny.rr.com or by visiting Horse Journal at www.horse-journal.com. -
Blog Name: Horses Keep Us Grounded
Blog Description:Cindy Foley is the Editor-in-Chief of Horse Journal, which focuses on real-life horse-product field trials with buying advice and recommendations. A lifelong skeptic, she’s also prudent about both money and horses. She’s an experienced horsewoman, writer and editor. She competed successfully in the hunter/jumper divisions for many years and, after college, moved to Kentucky where she became involved in the Thoroughbred racing industry, including as assistant manager at a major rehabilitation and training clinic. When she and her farrier husband moved to Virginia’s Hunt Country, she worked for The Chronicle of the Horse. After that, she became editor of Horse Journal (www.horse-journal.com). She’s an avid dressage rider and enjoys dog agility competitions with her Papillons. You can write to her at hjeditor@twcny.rr.com.
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Blog Name: Adventures with Angelea
Blog Description:As a life long equestrian, Angelea (HorseGirlTV’s CEO or Chief Equine Officer!) has not only ridden and trained but she has successfully competed in Dressage through Grand Prix earning both her USDF Silver and Gold Medals. In her blog, Adventures with Angelea, Angelea will give you an exclusive peek inside training with a top Olympian abroad and weekly updates on her adventure in the Netherlands (Holland). She'll be training with one of the greatest dressage competitors and trainers of all time, Anky Van Grunsven.
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Blog Name: Solutions from the Feed Tub
Blog Description:Eleanor Kellon, VMD, is Horse Journal’s Veterinary Editor. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, magna cum laude, and has extensive experience with high-performance horses. With her husband, she breeds, races and trains Standardbred harness horses in Pennsylvania. Eleanor has written countless articles and several books, including “The Older Horse” and “Horse Journal Guide to Equine Supplements and Nutraceuticals.” She is now also offering online courses in equine nutrition and health/performance. For details, visit www.drkellon.com
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Blog Name: Stepping out of the Judge's Box
Blog Description:Margaret Freeman is a USEF Senior (S) dressage judge, rated to judge through Grand Prix at U.S. shows. She’s been a dressage judge for 20 years and on weekends travels all over the United States to judge shows.On weekdays, she’s a freelance writer/editor and also coaches dressage. She’s the associate editor of “Horse Journal” and on the editorial board of “USDF Connection.” In the past, her journalism adventures have taken her to six Olympics where she’s covered the equestrian events for the Associated Press. She’s earned a USDF Silver Medal and is aiming to compete her Friesian-cross mare Windsong at FEI Intermediate I this year. Margaret grew up in Portland, Oregon, where she first learned to ride at a hunter barn on an island in the middle of the Columbia River. She’s since lived and competed in seven states across the country. She’s also been an active show organizer and was on the founding boards of Commonwealth DCTA in Virginia and Dressage at Devon in Pennsylvania. She’s on the board of Dressage4Kids, which runs Lendon Gray’s annual Youth Dressage Festival in New York where she now lives.
