North Country Rider

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Arieca Te Velde and Ty took first in the senior high point division at the bi-county 4-H honor awards. To see the top riders, click here.

Pickens plan spares thousands of wild horses

Thousands of wild horses and burros roaming public lands have found a surprise benefactor: Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens.

4-H equestrians claim their 2008 awards

Top 4-H equestrians from Chelan and Douglas counties were honored Oct. 26 at the group’s annual bi-county awards ceremony. More than 60 riders competed in five shows in 2008 to earn points for a slot in the final standings.

• Stables' tax breaks seem to be safe

  Horse-boarding stables have won a reprieve from the possibility of losing property-tax breaks that many have received for years.

• Bulletin boards offer cost-cutting tips

  Horses aren’t the cheapest animals to own, and — in these hard economic times — your dwindling bank account might be proof of that.

• Why sugar could be souring your horse

  Is your young horse fidgety? Not paying attention? Maybe even disoriented?

• Narrowing down the causes of weight loss

  Here’s the skinny on weight loss in horses:

• In hard times, what to do with extra horses?

  Horse owners are discovering that riding out these tough economic times may not be so easy.

• Popular horse trainer schedules clinics

  The horseman from Down Under is coming over (and up) to Central Washington.

• Mounted shooting makes its mark

  Look at them. Those blank little red, blue and pink faces. Bobbing in the breeze tauntingly.

• Rodeo queen’s horse beating back West Nile

  She says it’s the ugliest thing she’s ever seen happen to a horse — partial paralysis, crazy wobbling, inability to eat, skin shrunken right up to the bones.

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