In the first of our six-part series on what it takes to win a World Championship title Kenzie Bracken tells how she prepared for the Hunter Under Saddle class at the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) 2025 Youth World Show with her show partner, Soo Dressed Hot. Next up: Cole Gouthro, a winner in Youth Ranch […]
In the first of our six-part series on what it takes to win a World Championship title Lane Kail tells how he prepared for the Western Pleasure class at the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) 2025 Youth World Show with his show partner, Batterang. Next up: Kenzie Bracken, a winner in Hunter Under Saddle at […]
Sometimes, when you know, you know. That’s how Indiana amateur competitor Jennifer Rooks felt the first time she met Best Be Sleepin In (Ned). Rooks had been on the hunt for a new Hunter Under Saddle show partner at the 2024 All American Quarter Horse Congress. Georgia trainer Jamie English was assigned to the same […]
Join InStride Edition this evening as we present the newly established Rail Horse Association (RHA) inaugural Western Pleasure classes held at the Pre-Madness Circuit, at the World Equestrian Center in Wilmington, Ohio. Over $30,000 will be awarded in six RHA Non-Pro Western Pleasure classes featured today and tomorrow at the Pre-Madness. Action will get underway […]
A total of 19 unshown Western Pleasure contenders battled it out for a $69,800 purse in the 2026 Virginia Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Open Western Pleasure class held in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Lexington on March 28. When the placings of the six judges were tallied, and high and low cards dropped, Texas trainer […]
After years of heated debate within the equine industry, the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) has voted to repeal its controversial “Two-Year Rule,” a regulation that restricted the use of frozen semen and embryos from certain horses. The decision, finalized during the 2026 AQHA Convention in Las Vegas, signals a significant change in how breeders […]
In many instances the term “wild card” refers to something or someone that is unpredictable. But Wild Cardd, the hot young stallion sired by Makin Me Willy Wild out of Ms Miracle Zip, is anything but. “Perhaps his greatest attribute is that he is just a true show horse and always has been,” said Lexie […]
National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA) Quarter Million Dollar Club Rider Kenny Lakins says Made Like No Other (Scotty) is like a fine wine – he just keeps getting better with age. “He’s a very special horse,” he said. “You don’t get to have those in your program very often. He has excellent conformation. He’s extremely intelligent […]
With over 59,000 Facebook followers and 29,000 fans on Instagram, First Thingz First may be one of the most followed stallions in the industry right now. But to his owner, social media personality Katie Van Slyke the 2021 stallion sired by RL Best Of Sudden out of VS The First Lady, is a total sweetheart […]
He’s big. He’s beautiful. He’s great-minded. He comes from a family of successful show horses. And now, at just 2 years old, He, himself, has two Quarter Horse Congress Championships and a Reserve Championship to his credit. It’s safe to say that Shannon Walker’s bay stallion by Its A Southern Thing out of Krymsun Belle is […]
Every once in a while, you just need to shake things up a bit. Just ask Florida mother and daughter amateur competitors Brenda Ramirez and Kristen Holmes. For her entire show career Brenda has only ever shown western horses. Holmes, on the other hand, has always gravitated toward Hunter Under Saddle contenders. But that’s all […]
It’s been said that ambition is the path to success but persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. Iowa breeder and Amateur competitor Kari Jewell has both. Although Jewell’s involvement in the show horse industry dates back to the 1990s, she has only competed once or twice in the past five years. In 2019 she […]