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VS Dispersal bring $5,120,250 during event in Claremore, Oklahoma

VS Dispersal bring $5,120,250 during event in Claremore, Oklahoma

Things were Exciting in Claremore, OK for the VS Dispersal Sale on August 9!  Kristen and Wesley Galyean, Jim, Debbie and Jared Glover truly appreciate all who attended and supported their program.  This was a “Once in a Lifetime Opportunity” for breeders and exhibitors to own a part of the VS Legacy. “Kristen and the […]

Palomino World Show opens today in Springfield, Illinois: Association celebrating 40th Year

Palomino World Show opens today in Springfield, Illinois: Association celebrating 40th Year

The judges have been hired. The trophies are polished. The arena has been dragged. Now it’s time for the Palomino Horse Breeders of America (PHBA) to welcome exhibitors and spectators to the association’s 40th Annual World Championship Show. The PHBA World Show gets underway today in the Coliseum at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield. […]

Lexie Frencl: Teamed with I Will Be A Lopin RV for Western Pleasure and all-around events

Lexie Frencl: Teamed with I Will Be A Lopin RV for Western Pleasure and all-around events

They say that success is best when it’s shared and Illinois native Lexie Frencl could not agree more. Although she has been showing horses competitively since she was just 14 years old, everything changed for Frencl when she met Justin Clay Arrington while she was handing out awards at the 2021 National Snaffle Bit Association […]

Reserve AQHA World & Congress Champion Mr Freeze making memories for the Leavell family

Reserve AQHA World & Congress Champion Mr Freeze making memories for the Leavell family

Imagine if the Big Bang Theory character Sheldon were a horse. That’s what Kentucky trainer Josh Faulkner says Mr Freeze is like. “He’s just goofy and always keeps you guessing,” Faulkner said. But the 2015 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) bay gelding by Batt Man and out of Only A Summer Breeze that Faulkner suggested […]

Farley McLendon: Striving to stay consistent helps make wins sweet, loss easier to take

Farley McLendon: Striving to stay consistent helps make wins sweet, loss easier to take

Life is good for Farley McLendon. With a thriving training operation in Glencoe, Oklahoma, nice horses like Whatza Matter, Extremely Custom, Al Southern Couture and Hot Dig It, to show along with great clients, these days she’s counting her blessings. Since as far back as she can remember, McLendon has known she wanted to train […]

Kristen, Wes Galyean announce VS Dispersal Sale Aug. 9

Kristen, Wes Galyean announce VS Dispersal Sale Aug. 9

The Glover Galyean family announces the dispersal of their World and Congress Champion stallions who carry on the bloodlines of the legendary Vital Signs Are Good as the family horse business moves their focus to their successful cutting horse breeding and training operation.  VS Code Red (Blazing Hot x Vital Signs Are Good), VS Flatline […]

Virginia Maiden Western Pleasure to take center stage tonight

Virginia Maiden Western Pleasure to take center stage tonight

A total of 25 unshown Western Pleasure prospects are slated to compete for a total purse of $48,625 in the Virginia Maiden 3 & Over Open Horse Western Pleasure class this afternoon at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington. The winner will take home a $12,000 paycheck. Reserve will earn $8,500 and the class will […]

He’s a “Super Freek” in the Hunter Under Saddle pen. Watch for him with Jamie English in Novice Horse events this year

He’s a “Super Freek” in the Hunter Under Saddle pen. Watch for him with Jamie English in Novice Horse events this year

When March To The Arch organizers announced that this year the Cancer Benefit AQHA show circuit would add a 3-Year-Old Hunter Under Saddle slot class with $50,000 in guaranteed prize money, Georgia trainer Jamie English knew immediately she’d be riding a “freek.” From the first time she and her husband, Jason, got Super Freek (Roger), […]

Deanna Green Willis joins InStride Edition’s advertising sales team

Deanna Green Willis joins InStride Edition’s advertising sales team

Deanna Green Willis joins InStride Edition as the newest member of its sales force, it was announced today by Publisher Courtney Borton Ament. With an extensive background in the equine industry, Deanna will handle advertising sales for the award winning publication’s print and digital magazine and she will play a major role in the expansion […]

Madeleine Bayless returns to show pen after 20 year break with Im Willy Good Today and Best Money Made

Madeleine Bayless returns to show pen after 20 year break with Im Willy Good Today and Best Money Made

Madeleine Bayless waited 20 years to return to showing horses and with the help of two very special new horses – Im Willy Good Today and Best Money Made – 2023 is shaping up to be a year to remember for the Alabama native. Bayless didn’t come from a horse family or have any natural […]

Starland Ranch welcomes AQHA stallion Right Onn

Starland Ranch welcomes AQHA stallion Right Onn

They say that the best time to find the perfect horse is when you are not looking. And although, Anneene Miller, has been hoping to either raise or purchase a stallion to represent Starland Ranch, for some time now, up until recently she had not found one that checked all her boxes. That has all […]