“Let’s be honest, Horsemanship patterns are mini Reining patterns,” says Abi Buckwalter, of Westminster, Maryland. As an Amateur rider this year who competes at American Quarter Horse Association sanctioned shows, Buckwalter earned her youth superior in horsemanship and finished 12th at the 2013 Built Ford Tough AQHA Youth World Championship and the 2013 All-American Quarter […]
Brad Ost teamed with UF A Certain Star to capture his first AQHA World Championship title in Junior Western Riding Wednesday in Oklahoma City. With a score of 229.5 Ost and UF A Certain Star, a 2009 chestnut gelding by Certain Potential and out of Prissy Legs, made it a decisive win by outscoring his […]
Trail guru Tim Kimura outdid himself with the creation of the Junior and Senior Trail final patterns at the AQHA World Championship Show going on all week in Oklahoma City. Both courses had tight turns, lots of transitions, raised poles and a lot of decorations throughout the pattern. Seventeen exhibitors with a score of 220.5 […]
The time has arrived. Next show season you’ll be moving from one division to the next. Regardless of whether you’re a rider aging out of 13 & Under or 14-18 or an adult pointing out of Novice, competing in a new division is exciting, sometimes nerve-wracking, but also an opportunity to advance your skills […]
It was two different days, two different 3-year-old horses and two World Championship titles for T. Sharnai Thompson, Pilot Point, Texas, at the AQHA World Championship Show in Oklahoma City. Thompson won the Hunter Under Saddle Wednesday aboard Only Blue Couture (aka Azzy). The 2011 gray mare by Hot Ones Only and out of Blue […]
Two new Amateur performance World Champions were crowned Tuesday at the AQHA World Championship Show in Oklahoma City. Jeffrey Johns piloted Lopin For a Chex to a win in Western Riding and Rock County Kid rocked the Western Pleasure with T. Sharnai Thompson in the saddle. Johns and Lopin For a Chex, a 2007 bay […]
It took a score of 222 or higher to make it back to this year’s Amateur Trail finals, held Monday at the AQHA World Championship Show in Oklahoma City, and the top 15 riders battled it out in a challenging Tim Kimura trail course. The course kept the riders and horses on their toes […]
When multiple World Champion trainer, Denny Hassett of Topeka, Kansas trots under the “Gateway of Champions” arch, down the chute into the bright lights of the World Show arena in Oklahoma City this year, he will be not only be leading Halter horses but riding as well on longtime customer, Debbie Brehm’s Western Pleasure horse, […]
A passionate horsewoman who believes in giving back to the Quarter Horse industry, Cecilia Hylton of Gainesville, Virginia has taken her Hylton Quarter Horses to new heights as not only a premier training but also a breeding operation standing World Champion stallions Invitation To Flash and Slip Slydun Away. After the death of her father […]
Tim and Katy Jo Zuidema, of Micanopy, Florida, know how to keep peace in a marriage. At the Appaloosa World Championship Show going on through Sunday in Fort Worth, Texas, the couple finished as Champion and Reserve Champion in the InStride Edition 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure Class, presented by the Appaloosa Pleasure Horse Association. Tim Zuidema […]
Jay Starnes piloted The Lopin Machine to a victory in the Congress Masters Western Pleasure tonight while My Invitations R Hot nabbed the Masters Hunter Under Saddle with Trisha Yamber in the irons. The Hunter Under Saddle class for unshown 2-year-olds went first as nine entries competed for a total purse of $45,000. Seaside Farm […]
In less than 24 hours, a group of cowboys at the 2014 Quarter Horse Congress organized and staged a mechanical bull riding event that raised over $6,000 for “Congress Cares,” a new program that will benefit the Ohio Quarter Horse Association. The impromptu idea, came from horsemen that include Tony Burris of North Carolina, and […]
