Clad in a sequin-embroidered unitard, Devon Maitozo scissor-kicks from a spinning handstand to a backflipping dismount. Coordinated to music, the move is already a spectacle—add the cantering horse ...

At 6 weeks old, Lyndsi Hardin rode on a horse with her mother for the first time and never stopped. Hardin, 24, now competes in horse vaulting — a sport that combines gymnastics and dance elements on ...

STANWOOD — Riding a horse with stirrups and a saddle is hard enough, but imagine standing upright on a horse’s back, perhaps on one foot. Or balancing on someone’s shoulders. Or even being turned ...

The four members of the Flying Stars team — Haley and Sidney Haberger, Greta Lee, and Aili Varner — call what they do gymnastics on a horse. Their coach has another description of equestrian or horse ...

When you say the word “vaulting,” most people think about Olympic gymnasts flying through the air over an apparatus and sticking their landing. For the members of the Technique Equestrian Vaulting ...

CALEDONIA -- To say Karin's Horse Connection at Legacy Stables near Caledonia is a unique operation would be a tremendous understatement. But Karin Schmidt, who co-owns Legacy Stables with her husband ...

BACK in 2005, when Miranda Marcantuno was 5, she attended a 4-H show here with her mother. She went on a pony ride, and afterward the pony’s owner handed her a flier. On it was a picture of something ...