VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 3 • PRINTED IN USA MARCH 2012
Contents DEPARTMENTS
8 From My Saddle A Home for My Horses by Karen Pickering
10 Small Farm Makeover Managing Your Horse Property, Part 2 by Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water
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12 Doctor’s Corner White Line Disease by Dave Sauter, DVM
15 Editor’s Postcard Home is Where the Barn Is by Catherine Madera
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16 On the Plus Side Do-it-yourself Horse Training by Allison Trimble
COVER STORY
6 Barn Pros: Invest in Your Horse Property by Catherine Madera
FEATURE
26 To Wallow in Mud by Sara Donoghue
CLUB CORRAL
14 Wash. Reining Horse Association Spring Fling to be Held in Wenatchee
22 Wash. State Quarter Horse Association AQHA Regional Championships!
32 Wash. Reining Horse Association Plenty of Action for the NWRCHA in 2012
18 Trail Savvy Trail Review: Harry Osborne National Forest by Robert Eversole
20 Trainer’s Corner Making Contact by Kim Roe
28 New & Noteworthy
34 Equine Wellness Infl ammatory Lower Airway Disease by Wendy Mollat, DVM, DACVIM
36 What’s Happening 37 Advertiser’s Index 37 NWHS Select Websites 38 Equine Marketplace
39 NWHS Book Barn Dennis Brouse on Horse Training by Dennis Brouse and Fran Lynghaug
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• Slow Feeders Make for Safer Feeding by Kentucky Equine Research
ON THE COVER
Denali 60 Barn in West Linn, OR
PHOTO COURTESY OF BARN PROS
2 March 2012 The Northwest Horse Source
• In Memory of Roxy, Freestyle Reining Champ by Lisa Rohner Schafer Watch Video of Roxy’s Champion Freestyle Performance with Stacy Westfall at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKK7AXLOUNo&lr=1
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PUBLISHER Karen Pickering EDITOR Catherine Madera SALES Karen Pickering PRODUCTION Mark Pickering DESIGN & LAYOUT Randy Bourland
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Mark Pickering
REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS Alayne Blickle – Horses for Clean Water Alison Trimble – On The Plus Side R. Paul Schwab, DVM & David Sauter, DVM – Doctor’s Corner, Kulshan Veterinary Hospital
Mark Bolender, Robert Eversole – Trail Savvy
Kim Roe – Trainer’s Corner
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