Professional AQHA and NSBA trainers Becca and Blake Britton welcomed their first child on Dec. 27. The new arrival, named Briggs Ronald, was 7 pounds, 5 ounces and 21 inches. Together Becca and Blake own and operate Blake Britton Show horses in Chillicothe, Ohio.
By Katherine Jarve Here’s a twist on a holiday favorite – all the great gifts you can give yourself (and your horse) to ensure a happy and prosperous 2022 while also protecting your legal interests and rights! On the 1st day of Christmas, give your horse your attention! Whether it is a good brushing or […]
The AQHA World Championship Show combined with the AQHA Level 1 Championship is underway in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Exhibitors from all over the world have gathered to enter through the Gateway of Champions in hopes of taking home a coveted AQHA globe. Be sure to Like our Facebook page to stay up to date on […]
“Entries will be accepted for the 55th Annual Congress Super Sale, to be included in the Sale Catalog, until Sept. 20. This is a live auction to be held on October 16th at the 2021 All American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus, Ohio,” announces Mike Jennings, with the auction management company, Professional Horse Services, LLC. “The Congress, […]
The Deeds Family along with Pickard Show Horses is proud to announce that 5-time NSBA World Champion Enticed will stand the 2022 breeding season at Gumz Farms in Kentucky. Under the care of Amy Gumz, Enticed will be open to a limited book of just 40 mares this season until May 15th with the intention […]
With summer coming to an end, the fall show circuit is heating up. Many horse show competitors will find themselves on the road for the next several weeks traveling across the country to make it to the final “big” championship shows of the year. However, with school back in session and employers asking people to return to […]
For horse people, August is often a big show month. There’s the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Youth World Show, which is quickly followed by the National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA)World Championship Show, leaving many horse owners and trainers away from home for several weeks. Often the entire barn isn’t traveling. The question then becomes who will take […]
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame member Carol Harris, 98, died Aug. 7, in Florida. Noted for her legendary American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame stallion Rugged Lark, Harris grew up in West Orange, New Jersey. Her first horse was a Standardbred – a pacer that she turned into a trotter. She exhibited Hackney ponies, Arabians, Saddlebreds […]
Keith Whistle, renowned Western Pleasure horse showman, died Aug. 3, at the age of 67. Born in Hayti, Missouri, Whistle was the first person to be inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame. He won both the 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure Futurity and the 3-Year-Old Western Pleasure Derby at the All-American Quarter Horse […]
InStride Edition equine law columnist, Katherine Jarve, an AQHA and NSBA competitor from New Jersey, was married to Joseph Opalka, in a beautiful ceremony at St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church in Jamison, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 14. A lavish reception followed at River House at Odette’s in New Hope, where Katherine’s father, Mati, who wrote the […]
Well known AQHA and NSBA competitor Mary (Lynn) Leedy, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, passed away on July 2. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Leedy founded Ski-Haus Sports in Oklahoma City in the mid-1970’s. Lynn also took a leadership role at the family hotel in Jensen Beach, Florida. In the 1990s she founded Lynn Leedy Interiors. […]
New opportunities are available for horses that previously did not meet PHBA registration standards. The PHBA Board of Directors recently adopted new rules for 1) unregistered horses and 2) those with excessive white markings. Horses with a palomino base body coat color that are either grade/unregistered or that display excessive white (including but not limited to […]
