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NSBA crowns new World Champions, BCF winners

NSBA crowns new World Champions, BCF winners

Competition continues at the National Snaffle Bit Association’s 13th Annual World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity, in Tulsa, Oklahoma this week. On Monday in Western Pleasure action, VodkaMadeMeDoIt and Erin Lieurance captured a win in the 10-entry BCF 2-Year-Old Intermediate Open Western Pleasure earning $1,262.03. The bay mare is sired by RL Best Of Sudden […]

Sloww Motion: Hall/Seebach purchase promising young stallion

Sloww Motion: Hall/Seebach purchase promising young stallion

Timing is everything. At least that’s what Dr. Candice Hall and Dr. Cory Seebach, of Black Creek, British Columbia, believe. It was true when they purchased leading Western Pleasure sire Machine Made back in 2010. “We went from ‘love at first sight’ to an extensive education in breeding and bloodlines,” Candice admits. And now, it’s […]

NSBA World Show and Breeders Futurity opens with record numbers

NSBA World Show and Breeders Futurity opens with record numbers

The National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA) opened its 13thannual World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity on Sunday with competition in three different arenas. According to organizers more than 5,000 World Show and BCF entries have already been received with more expected as the show unfolds. That tops last year’s final entry tally of 4,621. […]

Kylee Wiseman and RR Magical Moonlite: Going for Gold

Kylee Wiseman and RR Magical Moonlite: Going for Gold

A Gold Globe at the American Quarter Horse Association’s Youth World Show has always been Kylee Wiseman’s goal. She dreams about it. She visualizes herself achieving it but most importantly, she works hard to make sure she is prepared to make it happen. Kylee has been close before. Last year, the 14-year-old competitor from Beaver, […]

Improve your Showmanship score

Improve your Showmanship score

The beauty that results when a Showmanship team performs with perfect unison is something every competitor strives to achieve. In 2017 Ashley Hadock, of Henderson, Tennessee laid down such a pattern with her beloved show partner, Touched N Moonlite, helping her to win the Amateur Showmanship at the All-American Quarter Horse Congress. She compares the […]

New Rules For AQHA Performance Halter Classes

New Rules For AQHA Performance Halter Classes

The American Quarter Horse Association recently announce significant changes to the Performance Halter rules as they apply to the World Championship Show and now the Youth World Show and the Select World Show. Those rules are being met with overwhelming support from Performance Horse enthusiasts. The American Quarter Horse Association announced on Dec. 31, a […]

One horse for many events: Trainers and exhibitors explain how

One horse for many events: Trainers and exhibitors explain how

When Julie McCallister became an empty-nester it was time to chase her horse show dreams. She purchased Hour Rumors, “Trixie,” and began training with Kip Larson and Michael Davis at Kip Larson Performance Horses for Western Pleasure. Then she added Halter, Hunter Under Saddle, Showmanship, Horsemanship, and Equitation. Earlier this year she won the AQHA […]

First-time competitors shine at this year’s Palomino Youth World Show

First-time competitors shine at this year’s Palomino Youth World Show

If you have ever wanted to compete at the Palomino Youth World Show but were afraid you didn’t have enough experience to be successful, you will want to hear about Stephanie Brown and Landon Battey. Stephanie is just 11 years old and from Sanger, Texas. Landon is 13 and hails from Wilton, Iowa. Both are […]

Palomino World Show

Palomino World Show

The Tunica Arena and Exposition Center in Mississippi is the site of this year’s Palomino Horse Breeders of America World Championship Show. The youngest competitors take center stage first as the association presents the Palomino Youth World Show through Saturday, followed by the Amateur and Open World Show classes next week. PHBA General Manager Terri […]

Dean Bogart Performance Horses Announces Move to Georgia

Dean Bogart Performance Horses Announces Move to Georgia

Dean Bogart Performance Horses is proud to announce the relocation of the business back to Georgia. Dean Bogart has had an outstanding career as a  professional horseman, judge and trainer of numerous Youth, Amateur and Open Congress and World Champions. His new venture will now be located at Big Sky Farm in Dacula, Georgia. “I am […]

Tom Powers Futurity

Tom Powers Futurity

    Official results are in from the 2018 Tom Powers Triple Challenge Futurity in Berrien Springs, Michigan June 27 to July 1 have been announced. Although rain on the first day of competition forced some reshuffling of the schedule, Tom and Dominique Powers and their staff once again pulled off a nearly flawless event […]

Patience of Starnes Team Pays Off For Million To 1 and Nettie Olsen

Patience of Starnes Team Pays Off For Million To 1 and Nettie Olsen

It has been said that faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness. The remarkable story of Million To 1 will make you a believer. The red roan son of VS Flatline and Congress Champion A Certain Illusion arrived on Super Bowl Sunday in 2015. There were big expectations […]

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