It’s hard to live in Montana and be unaware of how important horsemanship is to the state’s culture. Events like barrel racing, calf roping, and bronc riding are a fixture of every county fair, and ...

SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. — Just a few minutes from Blue Mountain High School in North Manheim Township 13-year-old Equestrian Vaulter Hannah Wildermuth is working on her next series of gymnastics moves.

When the young members of the Flying Star Vaulting Team tell their friends they do gymnastics on horseback, the response is … skeptical. “They’re like, you’re lying,” said Haley Haberger, 11. “When ...

If your kid came home one day and said she wanted to do a sport you’ve never heard of and wasn’t really done around here, would you make it happen? Sarah Whillock’s parents did, which is why Minnesota ...

Some kids beg their parents for a pony. Hannah Wildermuth has two horses, and she does somersaults on the older one’s back. Hannah, 10, a fifth-grader at Blue Mountain East Elementary School and ...

The term horse vaulting is a bit misleading. It brings to mind the aerial leaps performed in gymnastic competitions on a padded stationary block. But the actual sport of horse vaulting is one of the ...