Trail guru Tim Kimura outdid himself with the creation of the Junior and Senior Trail final patterns at the AQHA World Championship Show going on all week in Oklahoma City. Both courses had tight turns, lots of transitions, raised poles and a lot of decorations throughout the pattern. Seventeen exhibitors with a score of 220.5 […]
The time has arrived. Next show season you’ll be moving from one division to the next. Regardless of whether you’re a rider aging out of 13 & Under or 14-18 or an adult pointing out of Novice, competing in a new division is exciting, sometimes nerve-wracking, but also an opportunity to advance your skills […]
Mike Jennings of Professional Horse Services, LLC is pleased to announce “Our December Online Auction will offer a great group of horses, by the indication of the early entries. We are excited to offer Steve Heckaman’s stallion, Potential Asset, AQHA High Point Performance Halter Stallion, Superior Western Riding and top Western Pleasure Horse. He is […]
It was two different days, two different 3-year-old horses and two World Championship titles for T. Sharnai Thompson, Pilot Point, Texas, at the AQHA World Championship Show in Oklahoma City. Thompson won the Hunter Under Saddle Wednesday aboard Only Blue Couture (aka Azzy). The 2011 gray mare by Hot Ones Only and out of Blue […]
Two new Amateur performance World Champions were crowned Tuesday at the AQHA World Championship Show in Oklahoma City. Jeffrey Johns piloted Lopin For a Chex to a win in Western Riding and Rock County Kid rocked the Western Pleasure with T. Sharnai Thompson in the saddle. Johns and Lopin For a Chex, a 2007 bay […]
It took a score of 222 or higher to make it back to this year’s Amateur Trail finals, held Monday at the AQHA World Championship Show in Oklahoma City, and the top 15 riders battled it out in a challenging Tim Kimura trail course. The course kept the riders and horses on their toes […]
While the wheels of the horse industry have been turning, trainer Lonnie Cruse of Santa Fe, Texas, has been quietly producing multiple World and National Champions as long as anyone can remember, focusing on Appaloosas like his dad, Darold Cruse, did before him, as family tradition. “We’ve been in the Apps all our life. My […]
If you would like to learn more about how to judge a variety of AQHA-approved classes or just want to hear how judges are instructed to judge your favorite class, make reservations to attend the AQHA Educational Judging Seminar January 8-10, 2015, at the Holiday Inn Opryland/Airport in Nashville. The seminar will be conducted by AQHA Senior […]
When multiple World Champion trainer, Denny Hassett of Topeka, Kansas trots under the “Gateway of Champions” arch, down the chute into the bright lights of the World Show arena in Oklahoma City this year, he will be not only be leading Halter horses but riding as well on longtime customer, Debbie Brehm’s Western Pleasure horse, […]
A passionate horsewoman who believes in giving back to the Quarter Horse industry, Cecilia Hylton of Gainesville, Virginia has taken her Hylton Quarter Horses to new heights as not only a premier training but also a breeding operation standing World Champion stallions Invitation To Flash and Slip Slydun Away. After the death of her father […]
Masterson Farms, LLC, has announced that Casey Willis will be joining the farm Dec. 1 as its head trainer. In that role, he will be responsible for and supervise all training activities at the Somerville, Tennessee farm. He will be supported by assistant trainers Kaitlin LeBlanc, now at the farm, and Blair Townsend, who will […]
Tim and Katy Jo Zuidema, of Micanopy, Florida, know how to keep peace in a marriage. At the Appaloosa World Championship Show going on through Sunday in Fort Worth, Texas, the couple finished as Champion and Reserve Champion in the InStride Edition 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure Class, presented by the Appaloosa Pleasure Horse Association. Tim Zuidema […]
