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Letters To and From the Editor |
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by Garry Stauber |
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Things are heating up with the June issue of Equestrian Network Magazine. It is great to see Linda Tellington-Jones back in our magazine as her picture graces our front page and Andrea Pabel from the TTeam teaches TTouch for Sport Horses. Speaking of sport horses, the Arabian Sport Horse is our Breed of the Month. We have an incredible training facility and breeding farm for our Dream Facility of the Month, be sure to check it out. And this month we many articles relating to horses' health, with the first of a three-part series on laminitis, an equine dentistry FAQ, seasonal vaccinations and part two of a series on the equine heart. Be sure and check out the amazing art of Matt Torrens.
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This month we have the humorous poetry of Baxter Black, the cartoons of
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Jody Werner and a little satire from Bethany Caskey. We have great articles on assistance for our horses with our elite trainers, Pat Parelli, Julie Goodnight, Lynn Palm, Don Blazer, Ron Meredith, Jerry Tindell and Tommy Garland. And for the ladies we have our Cowgirl University article with "A Trail to Higher Education." |
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Looking back in time we have part two of a great story about Richard Stone Reeves. But what is even more amazing, we have almost ten more articles I have not even told you about including mine, "My Lover." There's steamy stuff in this month's issue. I hope you have a cool read as you check out the June issue of ENM. |
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Garry Stauber
Equestrian Network Magazine
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This month we had many emails and comments about our May issue. But we received the most comments on our reporting of the Grand National Art Show and Sale. Almost all of the comments were from artists who participated in the show. Here is a sample of the comments:
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The artwork was "world class"--simply beautiful, but, the show was not. The artwork was poorly displayed, exremely cramped with much of it well below eye level, as in sitting on the floor or on hay bales. It appeared as if the "world class" show was in a barn. The people running the show didn't seem to want to talk to prospective buyers and sometimes couldn't even be found.
M. Heed
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This show was so unprofessional that I removed my work from it. The article is extremely misleading.
Susan Fox
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I too am an artist who had work at the ill-fated show at the Cow Palace. As the others have said... the artwork there was truly of the highest quality. The running of the show was of the lowest. The show director and her assistants were incapable of running a show of this caliber. The displayed the work with little respect for the value of the work both aesthetic or monetary. Since the closing of the show, they have been rude, uncommunicative, evasive, and irresponsible. I would caution all artists considering doing a show in the future with these people to seriously reconsider. Find venues where you and your work are respected.
Juliet Harrison
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We also had comments about the article "The Top Ten Reasons It's Still Cool to Wear a Riding Helmet." Some of our readers' comments are below:
It amazes me how people won't let their kids ride a bicycle without a helmet, but they will let their kids ride a sometimes unpredictable 1200 lb animal that puts the child 6 feet off the ground without a helmet. I am a physician and my riding helmet has saved my head a number of times. I am now also riding in an Air Vest since I have had back surgery. Ride Safe and ride again tomorrow.
Tori King, M.D.
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I was riding in a mounted orienteering event - pushing hard for first place - and traveling back down a trail through thick woods that we had already been on three passes that same day. There was a tree down at head height across the trail, and we had ducked under it all three times. I was studying the map with my head down looking for a shorter way back to the finish - knowing we were being pushed hard by another team - following my partner who ALWAYS called out obstructions. She knew we had cleared this same log tree times before, so didn't call out when we approached. I hit the log with the top of my head and went straight over backwards into the mud. Luckily, I had started wearing a helmet after I had aggravated an old knee injury two years before - so all I injured was my pride. We still took first place to boot - by only 2 minutes. I am a believer
Larry Hewitt
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