A friendship that ignited with horse racing down dirt roads followed by a splash into the cow pond to cool off is 50 years old this year and showing no signs of fading. Brenda Yates and Cathy Starnes, of South Carolina both show on the AQHA and NSBA circuits and have been friends since they met […]
After nearly a week of competition, top exhibitors earned prizes May 7 at the 2017 Nutrena East AQHA Level 1 Championships in Raleigh, North Carolina. Christine Gudas of Lafayette, Indiana, arrived in Raleigh with one goal: to finish in the top 10 in one class. She did that and more. At the end of the […]
APHA and AQHA exhibitors Erin Bradshaw and Scott Weiss were married Saturday, May 6, at the Milestone Barn, Aubrey, Texas. Given away by her father, former NFL Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, the bride studied fashion merchandising at the University of North Texas. She is a multiple APHA World Champion. Weiss, originally from Johnston, Iowa, attended North […]
The Ohio Quarter Horse Association (OQHA), host of the All American Quarter Horse Congress, today announced plans to relocate its headquarters from Richwood, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio. “For many years we have recognized the importance of having OQHA closer to central Ohio,” said Dr. Scott Myers, OQHA CEO. “The new headquarters will support the continued […]
Level 3 13-&-Under core classes have been added to the 2018 American Quarter Horse Association’s World Championship Show. The classes were recommended by the American Quarter Horse Association Show Committee at the 2017 AQHA Convention and were recently approved by the AQHA Executive Committee. Exhibitors can qualify to compete in Level 3 13-&-Under Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle, […]
The American Quarter Horse Association has announced that the 2018 VRH World and Zoetis AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenge Finals are tentatively scheduled for June 14-17, 2018, at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The first Zoetis VRH World was held in 2008 in Denver during the National Western Stock Show, and then relocated in 2011 to […]
Funeral services were held Saturday for trainer Seth Michael Marlatt, of Greencastle, Indiana, who died on May 2, at the age of 35. He was born Sept. 6, 1981 in Greencastle, the son of Michael and Brenda (Adams) Marlatt and was a 2000 graduate of Greencastle High School. Marlatt was a horse trainer having worked […]
Tim and Barb Delf, of Blue Grass, Iowa, report the death of legendary American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) broodmare, Goodbars Glamourgirl today just two weeks before her 21st birthday. Sired by Zippos Mr Good Bar and out of Mitos Magic Moment, Goodbars Glamourgirl is an all-time leading AQHA dam. Her foals have earned over 5,100 […]
Cole Baker rode Will Be A Good Chip to a win today in the Fourth Annual Kim Rich Memorial Green Western Pleasure at the Pro Am Quarter Horse Circuit in Conyers, Georgia. Will Be A Good Chip is a 2013 bay gelding, sired by Good I Will Be and out of Chipalilly, and is owned […]
When things go right there is nothing that is more satisfying than ushering a new foal into the world….and celebrating the fruition of a year of planning, care and a safe delivery. But when problems occur, like the death of a mare or the rejection of a foal, breeders are thrust into the reality of […]
Funeral services have been set for Alan Parker, one the horse industry’s most well-known auctioneers, who died on Saturday, March 25 in Plant City, Florida. Friends will be received from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, April 1, and from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, April 2, at the Gentry Morrison Funeral Home, 3350 Mall Hill Drive, […]
Bret Parrish, of Pavo, Georgia, piloted Pistol Packin Mann to a win in the 2017 Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure at the Spring Breakout/Dave Higgins Memorial Show, in Lexington, Virginia tonight, collecting a check for $25,000. Parrish said the Hylton Maiden class was always the plan for the 2013 sorrel gelding sired by […]