[1] The magazine was co-founded in 1997[2] by Rhonda Hart (later Rhonda Hart Poe, now Rhonda Massingham Hart), an author of multiple horse, garden, and how-to books, Alyson Stockham, a Peruvian Paso horse breeder, and Becky Turner, a freelance artist and sculptor, who left in the early days of the magazine to pursue her artistry.
[5] After a decade in the business, the magazine folded in 2007, due mostly to lack of subscription sales and advertising, in spite of being popular mostly in the Southern United States and Europe.
Unfortunately, someone picked up the magazine's original website address after the publication ceased.
As of July 23, 2020, the original creators of The Gaited Horse magazine discovered that this imitator is using copyrighted material from the original magazine (including the logo, website copy and various articles) without their knowledge or consent, and are endeavoring to correct this unauthorized use of their work.
This new version has no affiliation with the original magazine, The Gaited Horse, or with any of its founders.