Hoofbeats was founded in June 1978 by Robert and Sandy Hannan, David Nangle and Steve Rooke. As the magazine grew and began to take up more of our time, David and Steve returned to their ‘real’ jobs. Robert’s photography took him overseas for 6 months of each year, which left me (Sandy) to man the position as editor.

Hoofbeats originally shared Robs photographic studio in the city but in 1990 we built a log cabin office on our 20 acre property and moved the office to the much more practical location of this semi rural area.

We believe that the success of Hoofbeats can be attributed to the fact that we are all involved with horses (or have been) and we thoroughly enjoy what we are doing, which we have been told is reflected within the pages of the magazine.