If you’ve ever tried to braid a squirmy toddler’s hair — or even brush it — you have some idea of the challenge that Angela Ferguson often faces at the All American Quarter Horse Congress. Day after ...

Joe Reed, of Fredericktown, braided his Percheron Missy's mane with ease, weaving bright red and white cords through her graying mane as he sat atop the horse in her stall. "She don't care," said Reed ...

It takes about an hour to braid most horses, including their tails, Angelica Romero tells me. And that’s if a SWAT team doesn’t barge in looking for escaped convicts, which has happened to her. “Two ...

That horse named Kiev — what a character. So chipper at 4:30 a.m. Head bobbing. Hooves pawing the stable floor. “He’s a stallion,” Barb Gillis says, as if that explains it all. “Sometimes when I ask ...