An Adventurous Week of “Yes” on South Padre Island
Nearly everything my teenage son wanted to do during our beach vacation required a waiver.
Nearly everything my teenage son wanted to do during our beach vacation required a waiver.
It promises a grand time on a big lake, next to an awakening downtown square and miles of horse (and lemur!) country.
While the state racing commission jousts with a new federal oversight body, business is cratering at Texas racetracks.
He’s pushing ninety and still saddling up at the Four Sixes Ranch. Just don’t call him the last cowboy.
In ‘Jockey,’ Dallas director Clint Bentley draws dark lessons from a life lived on the track.
Hoof it to these parks with your steed (or someone else's).
Equestrians can ride their own steeds, or in a few cases rent them, on public lands across the state.
Healing a spooked horse takes time, patience, and skill. And maybe a little help from beyond.
Without a good shoeing, a horse can indeed be lost. Enter the farrier.
Time to double-check the locks on your barns.
When torrential storms brought raging flood waters to their ranch in Eastland, the Barrett family took to the muddy waters to rescue their prized horses.
He had one job.
What is the world coming to?
My life with horses.
The "dinner theater" chain supplies all of its castles with purebred Andalusian horses, which are all born at an unassuming ranch in Sanger, Texas.
Equestrian gear that will steer a horse—and turn some heads.
With the USDA poised to once again allow the processing of horse meat, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram argues that Texas should repeal its 1949 law against the practice.
Five years after the federal government closed facilities that slaughter horses, President Barack Obama signed legislation that effectively reverses the old policy and allows slaughter plants to open.
Redford, shmedford: If you think the aging Hollywood hunk is anything like the prototypical horse whisperer, you haven’t met Del Rio native Ernesto Rojas Serna.
What does it take to break a wild mustang? Patience, horse sense, experience, and if you’re Teryn Lee Muench, no more than one hundred days.
Sterry Butcher talks about her experience watching Teryn Lee Muench break a wild mustang in less than one hundred days.
The federal government made a cool $8.8 million over the weekend auctioning off racehorses that purportedly belong to the Zetas.
The drought leaves nothing untouched. This week the ongoing drought impacts the state’s groundwater, state parks, and horses.
Summer's over, but the drought may never be, and it's affecting everything from tourism to pecan pie to horse welfare.
For teenage girls in the Hill Country town of Llano, life can be short on glamour and excitement—except at the annual rodeo, when one of them gets a rhinestone tiara and a rare, thrilling moment of glory.
In 1990 the legendary Thoroughbred was put to sleep after his leg was broken—an accident, it seemed, until a tenacious prosecutor linked his death to a Houston bank scandal.
My mane attraction.
After thieves stole his daughter’s horse, deputy U.S. marshal Parnell McNamara didn’t make a federal case out of it. Instead, he rounded up a group of old-style lawmen and lit out after them.
All over Texas, small ranchers are giving up and moving to the city. But the Stoner family of Uvalde is as determined as ever to hold on to its land—and its way of life.
The shocking and sad story of the East Texas kids who beat a horse to death just for the thrill of it.
Texas was supposed to be horse racing’s salvation, a Thoroughbred–loving state with money to burn. So why can’t the sport get out of the gate?
Buster Welch’s success as a cutting horse trainer is based on a simple observation: when you insult a horse’s intelligence, you hurt his feelings.
Horses are expensive, finicky, and a pain to groom. They are also irresistible.
People bring their gangly quarter horse colts to Bubba Werner to transform into winners. Now and again, he does.
A tale of chukkers, stable snakes, Andy Warhol, and the booming sport of polo.