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 […]
Former Dixon, Illinois comptroller Rita Crundwell, convicted of embezzling $53.7 million from the city to fund her Quarter Horse operation, has been released from a federal prison. Crundwell was sentenced by a federal judge in 2013 to 19 years, 7 months in federal prison, in the largest case of municipal fraud in American history. She […]
Exhibitors from across the world are in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to “Get That Globe” at the 2021 AQHA Youth World Show. The Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show is the pinnacle event for American Quarter Horse exhibitors, ages 18 and under, around the world, to compete in each of the classes representing halter, English […]
The Palomino Horse Breeders of America hosted its annual World Championship Show July 8-17, 2021 in Springfield, Illinois. The show, in its second year in Springfield, was a soggy one but got underway early with Challenged Horseman classes followed by Youth, Amateur and Open. Golden Horse Awards were handed out following each World Show. For […]
The competition and temperatures are heating up in Conyers, Georgia as the GQHA hosts its annual Stars & Stripes and Big A Circuits. The show features a full slate of AQHA and NSBA classes as well as select Show For Dough Classes. Judges for this year’s event include Stars N Stripes Pool: Melissa Sexton, Michael […]
Equine reproduction has significantly advanced in the last 30 years. On the stallion side, the development of semen extenders, processing techniques, and shipping containers has allowed cooled and frozen semen to be shipped worldwide. These advances have been beneficial to the horse industry in many different ways. First of all, it allows for the spreading of genetics […]