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Deciding to insure a show horse depends on two things: your long-term goals and the level of risk you’re willing to accept. Not enough insurance for a valuable stallion or top-level show horse can keep you awake worrying about infertility or a career-ending injury. On the flip side, you can purchase so much insurance that […]
Experienced breeders all know that successful stallions are genetically dominant. You can always pick out their foals. That’s what’s got Sarah Nimigan and her trainers, Tim and Katy Jo Zuidema so excited about the future of Best Brew At The Bar. Katy Jo has seen several of the foals from the first foal crop of […]
Bidding is open for the 54th Annual Congress Super Sale, which the Ohio Quarter Horse Association presented as an Internet Auction in 2020. “Over 100 outstanding horses are offered in the three sessions,” said Mike Jennings of Professional Horse Services, LLC. “Two sessions feature outstanding yearling prospects for the popular Yearling Sale Stakes classes for […]
Kathy L. Williams Tail Extensions has a new owner. Effective today, Kelley Mundrick, of Loganville, Georgia, takes over the reins of the highly-regarded mobile vendor that is a staple at most breed shows and futurities across the United States. “I’ve owned and operated the business for 25 years. And loved every minute of it,” Williams […]
The Palomino Youth Association concluded its 2020 World Championship Show by crowning new Golden Horse Champions and High Point Awards. They are: Youth High Point Palomino Bred: Zip Me Plenty Good and Baylee Runyon, Springfield, Illinois; Reserve Youth High Point Palomino Bred: Reinvest In Doubles and Emma Wirtz, Sherrodsville, Ohio. Walk Trot 5-9 Golden Horse: […]
The last time Bill Cox was able to show was at the Sun Circuit in Arizona, which ran from Feb. 27 to March 7. That was five months ago and chances are it’ll be the only show he competes in the entire 2020 season. The Ontario, Canada Select exhibitor made it home just as the […]
It would be a dream-come-true to win the Amateur Golden Horse title at this year’s Palomino World Show. Nina Christensen and Skye Blue Magic were Reserve last year. But Nina knows that’s a lofty goal and that you can’t always control everything that happens at a show. So, she has a plan. “We’ve worked really […]
A newly renovated coliseum at the Illinois State Fairgrounds awaits the arrival of the crème de la crème of Palomino exhibitors this month in Springfield. A $12-million renovation project has been completed on the original coliseum, which was built in 1901. Moving the show, which rund from Sept. 17 to 26, from Tunica, Mississippi was […]
Success was not necessarily a given for the pretty bay filly that Iowa Non-Pro competitor Tessa Sutton calls her show partner. Sutton’s mom, Amy Lynch, was actually the one who picked So Dang Hot, sired by Batt Man and out of Born Lopin, from among hundreds of yearlings entered in the Quarter Horse Congress’ Yearling […]
Highrange Ranch and the Porter family are pleased to announce the beginning of a new chapter for leading AQHA stallion Hubba Hubba Huntin. Alexis and Brandon Wrobbel of Iron W Ranch have taken the reins as Hubba’s new owners. “We are very excited to announce that Alexis and Brandon will be continuing on with our […]
Over $45,000 in cash and prizes will be up for grabs today in the Virginia Maiden 3-Year-Old and Over Western Pleasure Slot Class, being presented at noon today, during Tar Heel Summer Classic in Raleigh, North Carolina. A bonus will be paid to the highest placing Limited and Intermediate riders in the class. “Excited does […]
Radical Rodder, 1991 AQHA brown stallion, was humanely euthanized due to complications of old age on April 11, owner Diane Chilton has announced. Radical was the 1998 AQHA World Champion in Senior Western Pleasure Radical Rodder is currently the sire of 1024 AQHA horses, 13 Australian Quarter Horses, 57 APHA horses. He sired earners of […]