Texas Horseman's Directory Archives:
Stories of HEROES & VILLANS and EQUINE CHAMPIONS and FYI

The Performance Horse World Loses Two Great Stallions:

DOMINO Dutch Warmblood Stallion, Sire of dressage and hunter/jumper champions

HOLLYWOOD DUN IT National Reining Horse Association All Time Leading Sire

 

• THE HORSE WORLD LOOSES ANOTHER GIANT RUGGED LARK was humanly destroyed October 25, 2004
  
  
• SEATTLE SLEW th last living Triple crown Winner, dead at 28. The Bloodhorse.com
  
  
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• PAY-N-GO Officially Retires at SWDC/HDS Championships
  
  
• MONARCHOS Wins the Kentucky Derby in Record Time: 1:59.9 second only to
     Secretariat whose Derby Win Record Time still prevails.
  
  
• POINT GIVEN redeems himself by winning the Preakness & the Belmont.
  
  
• POINT GIVEN is retired after tendon injury. See story.
  
  
• KHEMOSABI++++// May 14, 1967 - March 1, 2001. The death of a legend.
  
  
• FORGET NOT
  
  
• UNION JACK
  
  
• The Sport World Looses Two Equine Heroes: BIG BEN and ABDULLAH
  
  
• PEANUT, the story of a APHA champion against all odds.
  
  
• PAY-N-GO, and Pam Fowler Grace of Texas were chosen out of all Appaloosas and their trainers in the U.S. to perform at the memorial service for LINDA McCARTNEY in New York, Monday, June 22.
  

• JURGEN MAINZER
  
  
• COLONEL ALLEN SMITH
  
  
• Judi Mc Gee Holmes and Peter Pletcher, Horseman of the Year
  
  
• ALYDAR's groom, Alton Stone, was convicted on 2 counts of making false statement to a grand jury investigating the death of the famous racehorse. Sentencing scheduled for September 8. For more imformation click here.
  
  
• WILLIE SHOEMAKER dead at 72. Click here for story.
  
  
• DIANE GROVES, Owner/Trainer, Willow Glen Equestrian Center, Spring,TX
     November 6, 2001, Diane lost her long battle with cancer. For more information.
  
  
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• MOLLY WALLIN, Houston Dressage Society Member/Competitor Remembered
  
  
• "Happy trails to you. . . " DALE EVANS, 1912-2001
  

• Competitive Trail Ride Gets Special Treatment in the Houston Chronicle, Sunday (28 January, 2001) supplement, Texas magazine. Cover photo shows competitor Janice Giles making her way through Angela National Forest. Photo by Ben Franklin.
  
  
• Texas Recreational Trails Program needs your help.
  For more information on the North American Trail Ride Conference
  
  
• British Parliament to debate Hunting Ban.
  
  
• "Horses, Kids & Ethics," new video for youth horse programs released by Texas A&M