Donkey Race at the 2017 Tom Powers Futurity
Donkey Race at the 2017 Tom Powers Futurity to benefit the NSBA Crisis Fund. Over $28,000 was raised during this event and Team Galyean won!
AQHYA Officers and Directors Named for 2017-18
American Quarter Horse Youth Association regional directors and five national officers for the 2017-18 term were elected July 13 at the Bank of America Youth Excellence Seminar in Amarillo. AQHYA Executive Committee members and regional directors play a major role in the youth association by planning events, participating in community service projects and spreading the word about […]
Carli Pitts joins her parents as professional trainer at P-5
She’s only been training professionally for two years but it seems like a lifetime when you are the daughter of professional trainers and it’s what you imagined you would always be doing. “My parents are horse trainers so I grew up around them,” she said. “I first started competing around the age of 6 […]
July Internet Auction
“Bidding will close on July 19th and 20th for the 2 July Auctions from Professional Horse Services, LLC,” according to Mike Jennings of the auction company management team. “The Pleasure and All Around Broodmare and Prospect Sale will close on Wednesday, July 19. Bidding for the July INTERNET Auction will close on July 20th, and […]
Economic Impact Survey
The American Horse Council Foundation (AHCF) announced today that it will be extending the deadline to complete the horse owner and supplier survey to update the National Economic Impact Study to August 18th. “The survey has been open since the beginning of June, and unfortunately we have only had around 9,000 responses,” said AHC President Julie […]
Results posted from Corporate Challenge circuit in St. Paul
The 2017 Corporate Challenge celebrated 20 years of AQHA show circuits this weekend at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. The Corporate Challenge is managed by Mark Harrell Horse Shows and although it’s been a hot weekend of competition turnout was strong. “We’re very happy with this year’s attendance,” said manager Rachel […]
It’s a boy for the Robertsons
AQHA trainers Trish and Josh Robertson welcomed a baby boy into the world on July 5th. Jayden John Robertson was born weighing seven pounds, 14 ounces and measuring, 21.25 inches long. He is the second child for the Ocala, Florida natives and will join big sister, Adaleigh. “We are so in love,” Trish shared via her […]
NSBA European Championship is the highlight of the show season
The VWB Summer Show that was held last week in Kreuth, Germany, is always a highlight of the European show season. This show does not only consists of two AQHA shows with two judges each and VWB classes, but features the finals of the prestigious Golden Series classes as well as the NSBA European […]
Kimmy Shidler crosses over from APHA to AQHA with ease
It takes a very special team to make the transition from competition in American Paint Horse Association classes to showing at American Quarter Horse events. Nineteen-year-old Kimmy Shidler, of Crystal River, Florida and her 2008 gelding BMQ The Jig Is Up not only managed it but they did it with ease. BMQ The Jig Is […]
Katie Jo Joes finding a new challenge in Western Pleasure
“Adorable,’ is the way Katie Jo Jones describes her current show partner, RV Wonit Lopin Lazy (Layla), a 2014 bay mare by Lazy Loper and out of I’ll Be Dun Won It.” “She reminds me of a puppy, more so than a horse,” she said. Jones started feeding her treats shortly after purchasing her while […]
Dwayne and Amber Pickard find true happiness training together
The thing about training horses for a living is that if not done right, it tells on you. “That’s why we don’t have deadlines,” said Dwayne Pickard of Byron, Michigan. “They will ruin you. Work hard and be consistent. You can’t put six days-worth of training into one or skip four days and try to […]
Soaring temperatures and big checks round out The Big A
Record temperatures in Conyers, Georgia didn’t hinder exhibitors from competing in record numbers at the Stars and Stripes and Big A Circuits. The two week long event features two AQHA shows as well as the second leg of the Premier Quarter Sires, Show For Dough and a Huntfield Derby. Brittany Andrews piloted Faith Is Certain […]