Connecting Ringside presented by Paddocks&Praise

Through every high and every heartbreak, two things have remained constant in Katie Cook’s life: God and horses. From a young age, Katie learned that even in the hardest seasons, God provides, and that horses are often one of the gifts He uses to carry us through life’s storms. After being forced to live in a van as a child, losing her mother tragically at just 12 years old, navigating a divorce,...

"There are no horses in heaven" is all Kelly Artz needed to hear to walk away from her Catholic faith at a young age. After exploring many faiths and searching for an ideal that made sense, she came to the realization that her beliefs were always rooted in God. That conviction ultimately led her through a 3-year conversion process to Judaism. But it was in the midst of a devastating thyr...

"There are no horses in heaven" is all Kelly Artz needed to hear to walk away from her Catholic faith at a young age. After exploring many faiths and searching for an ideal that made sense, she came to the realization that her beliefs were always rooted in God. That conviction ultimately led her through a 3-year conversion process to Judaism. But it was in the midst of a devastating thyr...

A life-changing car accident left one-year-old Gianna Trotter with a traumatic brain injury and paralyzed on the right side of her body. She could have gone through the rest of her life feeling sorry for herself and accepting her limitations, but instead, God has used her to show others that the only limitations they have are created by their own thoughts. In this episode, Gianna shares her journe...

"I died. But God brought me back to life." After 3 heart attacks, 2 seizures, and a stroke due to a drug overdose, Dominick Imperato lay in a hospital bed, clinically dead for minutes. But Jesus wasn't finished with his story.  In this episode, Dominick opens up about his addiction and how he overcame it with the love of God and horses. Well known on the West Coast and East Coast ho...