WE in the Valley is back. After a successful inaugural weekend in 2025, Gallatin Valley Working Equitation will host two USAWE-licensed shows — WE in the Valley #1 and #2, licenses 26-109 and 26-110 — on September 26–27, 2026 at Saddle Peak Equestrian Center in Belgrade, Montana. WE in the Valley 2026 Two USAWE-licensed shows, […]
The Spring 2026 issue of the Decker Dispatch, the statewide newsletter of the Back Country Horsemen of Montana, carried a feature by Stacie on page 11 introducing Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue — and announcing the TLAER course the Gallatin Valley chapter hosted May 2–3, 2026, at the Montana State University Miller Livestock Pavilion, taught […]
On October 7, 2025, EQUUS Magazine published “3 Skills Every Rescue Horse Needs,” written by Stacie — a companion to her May 2025 piece, “3 Skills Every Adopted Horse Needs,” this time aimed at horses in the early stages of rehabilitation from abuse or neglect. The three skills are the same foundation — leading, hoof […]
On August 16–17, 2025, the inaugural “WE in the Valley” working equitation show ran at Saddle Peak Equestrian Center in Belgrade, Montana, with Stacie as Show Manager. The weekend was run as two USAWE-licensed competitions — WE in the Valley #1 and #2, licenses 25-108 and 25-109 — giving riders two scoring opportunities in a […]
The Spring 2025 issue of the Decker Dispatch, the statewide newsletter of the Back Country Horsemen of Montana, carried an advocacy essay by Stacie and her husband Sid Boswell of the Gallatin Valley Back Country Horsemen: a case for why every equestrian is an ambassador, and why the horse world’s “social license to operate” depends […]
On May 19, 2025, EQUUS Magazine published “3 Skills Every Adopted Horse Needs,” written by Stacie. Once a newly adopted rescue horse’s pressing physical problems are addressed, she writes, three foundational skills set him up for the rest of his life: leading willingly, having his hooves handled, and tolerating injections. 3 Skills Every Adopted Horse […]
Emily Hutton is the horsewoman behind The Clever Cowgirl, a YouTube channel with more than 150,000 subscribers that documents her work giving auction and rescue horses a soft landing — first in Montana’s Gallatin Valley, now in Colorado. In December 2024 she published a video chronicling the first ten days of refeeding a starved auction […]
On August 29, 2024, Academic Press (an imprint of Elsevier) published Equine Welfare in Clinical Practice: How and Why to Incorporate Equine Behavior and Welfare Assessments into Clinical Practice, edited by V. Wensley Koch, DVM. Stacie is the sole author of Chapter 3, “Minimizing Fear Associated With Veterinary Procedures” (pages 49–68), contributing the book’s chapter […]
On July 15, 2024, the Mid-South Horse Review profiled Montana reining trainer Valerie Siegel — winner of the 2023 NRHA Intermediate Open World Championship — for its Equestrian Impact Awards. Stacie nominated her, and the profile is built around her nomination letter. Equestrian Impact Awards: Valerie Siegel “Watching Val pursue and win this prestigious award […]
On January 11, 2024, EquiManagement’s Disease Du Jour podcast — a show for equine veterinary professionals, sponsored by Merck Animal Health — released Episode 125, “Fear Free Veterinary Care,” with Stacie as the sole guest. Host Carly Sisson, EquiManagement’s digital editor, spent the episode walking through the three core Fear Free concepts — touch gradient, […]