The Palomino Horse Breeders of America announced the Golden Horse, High Point winners and the recipient of the Max Eisenberg Memorial Sportsmanship Award at the conclusion of this year’s Youth World Show on Sunday, July 11. “While final tabulations are not complete, I can say that entries are way up over past years,” said PHBA […]
Tanya Relander’s mom had to beg her parents to ride. So as soon as Tanya and her sisters could sit up her mom had them on the back of a horse. “She made sure we had horses to ride and show,” Tanya said. “We rode before we did our school work each day.” Tanya got […]
“Beautiful, talented and trainable” is how Ohio trainer Blake Britton describes the 2018 sorrel mare he just recently rode to a Reserve Championship (tie) in the 3-Year-Old & Over Maiden Western Pleasure Western Pleasure at the Southern Ohio Quarter Horse Association’s Madness Show Circuit in Wilmington, Ohio. Marilynn Monroe, sired by Machine Made and out […]
In just three years the Brad Borton Memorial Fund has awarded over $28,000 in cash and prizes to the Top 10 highest placing competitors in the Limited Non-Pro Western Longe Line class at the Tom Powers Futurity, thanks to the generous donations from family members, friends and members of the horse show community. InStride Edition […]
California Non-Pro competitor Erin Boatwright knows what she wants in a show horse. She started riding at the age of 14 and has competed on some of the best. But even Congress champions and futurity winners like Erin were thrown a curveball when the pandemic struck last year. Erin was already juggling a lot. After […]
Some very special auctions are being featured during the A Sudden Impulse AQHA Show and Futurity at the Word Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida on Friday, April 30. In a live auction, to start immediately following the trailer giveaway and just prior to the finals of 3-Year-Old Maiden Limited Open Hunter Under Saddle class, in […]
Well-known equine photographer and graphic designer Kelly Barnes Pella, most recently of Ocala, Florida, has passed away following a brief medical emergency. For decades Kelly photographed many of the industry’s top show and breeding horses and designed advertising for nearly all the industry’s equine publications and, in fact, she was the photographer for InStride Edition’s […]
He didn’t know it at the time but when Mike Hershberger sent A Certain Illusion to South Carolina trainers Jay and Kristy Starnes 11 years ago, he was making a move that would have a lasting impact on both families for years to come. Hershberger and the 2006 sorrel mare by Certain Potential out of […]
A total purse of $37,982 will be up for grabs today as 14 unshown Western Pleasure contenders compete for the first time in the Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Open Western Pleasure Class at the Spring Breakout AQHA Show in Lexington, Virginia. The winner of the Hylton Maiden take home a check for $10,000 and […]
When she was just 25-years-old Jamie Christine Dowdy was hit by a car while she was jogging near her home in Marshfield, Missouri. With fractures in her skull and right leg she was facing a long road to recovery. She ultimately lost most of the business she worked so hard to build. But she never […]
There’s an old saying that goes something like this: Great horses make great horse trainers, not the other way around. And Its Game On is living proof of that, says Jamie English. Jamie and her husband, Jason, spotted the 2018 bay gelding by Machine Made and out of Moonlite In Dixie, while visiting Parrish Quarter […]
The first time that trainer Amber Hanson Pickard laid eyes on Enticed she knew she wanted to be a part of his inevitable success. She saw a picture of the 2018 bay stallion by Its A Southern Thing and out of Pretty Assets when his breeder, Amy Gumz posted it on social media. He was […]
