Horse Show Tracker by FunWare Developments, provides up to the minute information on the AAQHC including: • estimated time and location of classes • ongoing status of classes • initial draws and splits • scores and scratches as they are reported • leaders in scored classes • final results for each class/go. The app also provides […]
Elegant, willing and regal. That’s the way Jamie Zuidema, of Cumming, Iowa, describes his Masters Western Pleasure horse, Gettin My Sundis On. “She possesses a certain air about her in the way that she carries herself under saddle and when she is simply standing alone in her stall,” he says. “She is always […]
Owner, exhibitor and breeder feedback is driving changes to the American Quarter Horse Association Incentive Fund. To make the program more beneficial to all competitors, effective January 1, 2016, competition licenses will no longer be required, and the point cap will change to one plus the average number of points earned during the year. […]
There is still time to enter horses in the 49th Annual Congress Super Sale! This is the Only Major auction for Pleasure, All Around and Halter Horses of all ages this year. You can offer your horses to the largest crowd of potential buyers in the industry. The Congress Super Sale has consistently been the Best All Around Show Horse […]
AQHA World Champion and Leading Sire Zips Chocolate Chip died today on Myers Horse Farm in Ashland, Ohio, the place of his birth 30 years ago. Bred and raised by Phil and Ann Myers, Zips Chocolate Chip was sired by Zippo Pine Bar and out of Fancy Blue Chip and was the leading sire […]
Amateur Select exhibitors from across the globe have gathered in Amarillo, Texas for the 2015 AQHA Select World Show August 28-September 5, 2015. Over 1,100 horses and riders 50 and over have qualified from June 1, 2014-May 31, 2015 to compete this year, the oldest cometitor is 82-year-old Carolyn Segulja of Silver City, New Mexico. Judges […]
Beginning November 1, 2015, clenbuterol will be considered a forbidden drug per AQHA Rule VIO401. Earlier this year, positive drug tests for detection of clenbuterol in American Quarter Horse racehorses resulted in significant penalties. As previously announced April 24, that policy was expanded to put an end to the abusive use of clenbuterol in show […]
<Most people in the horse business, especially horse trainers, get their start because one or both of their parents are involved, but for Ocala, Florida based trainer Sean Knowles it was a completely different story. Growing up in Horseheads, New York the Knowles family didn’t live on a farm, they lived in a city and […]
Dustin Eickenhorst and Only After Midnight claimed the final leg of the Premier Paint Sires 3-Year-Old Limited Horse Limited Rider Western Pleasure Class in Madison, Wisconsin, bringing to a close the 2015 competition year. Only After Midnight, is sired by By Appointment Only and out of A White Rose. She is owned by Jeffrey Gibbs, […]
The Premier Paint Sires, presented by InStride Edition, launched its all-new Breeders Futurity this weekend at the Wisconsin Paint Horse Club’s Futurity Show in Madison. A total of nine competed in the Yearling Longe Line Class this morning, the first Breeders Futurity Class to be offered as part of the new program. Tim Snapp, of […]
This year at the APHA World Championship Show, intermediate exhibitors will have the opportunity to shine with additional awards in several divisions. Special awards will be presented to first and second place, and medallions will be awarded to the Top Five. Recipients will be named Intermediate World Show Champion and Intermediate World Show Reserve Champion. […]
