Tom Powers Futurity Sale Stakes 3-Year-Old Open Western Pleasure (8 shown)Champion: Machine Made Hottie shown by Erin Lieurance, owned by Teresa Meyer Reserve Champion: Platinum Dot Com shown by Patrick Heeley, owned by Knapp Quarter Horse Farms Tom Powers Futurity 3-Year-Old Sale Stakes Limited Open Western Pleasure (3 shown) Champion: Bringing Out The Best shown […]
Tom Powers Futurity Sale Stakes 3-Year-Old Non-Pro Western Pleasure (2 shown) Champion: UF Batt Girl owned and shown by Mallory Menard Reserve Champion: Shes The Good Kind shown by Nancy Ditty and owned by Susan and Stanley Scott
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!
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
