Although through the years, there have been several different Longe Line score sheets approved by the National Snaffle Bit Association, understanding the current scoring system and how your longe liner is evaluated by the judges is a crucial element for success in the show arena. In the third section of our in-depth four part series […]
The final wishes of Carolyn Fleming Smith, per her will, included the donation of Iron Age to a major University. That transaction was completed after breeding season for ease on all parties with The Ohio State University. “The deal with OSU was put together by Amy Gumz due to her reproduction work with them,” Adria Smith, owner […]
As summer shows are under way and temperatures rise, it is crucial to the health of your horse to remember that, while you’re cruising down the road in the air-conditioning, your horse is not. So, what effect does hauling in the heat have on your horse? In the first section of our two-part series on […]
It was a repeat performance in the second leg of the Premier Paint Sires 3-Year-Old Limited Horse Limited Rider Western Pleasure Class, presented by InStride Edition, as Jenna Hyde rode Can I Get Your Number to victory in the eight-entry event held at the Color On The Coast Carolina-Virginia Joint Show Series APHA Show in […]
Despite competition from neighboring large shows held this weekend like the Region Six Super Six Show and Series in West Springfield, Massachusetts and the Little Buckeye Classic in Sunbury, Ohio, the Mid-Summer Madness Show held by the Pennsylvania Quarter Horse Association in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania at the Centre County Grange Fairgrounds on July 16-20 sustained […]
In just its third year the Color on the Coast, Carolina Virginia Joint Show Series APHA Show has become a top destination for paint horse exhibitors. In its first year the show made it onto APHA top 20 list for number of entries, in year two they made it to the top ten on that […]
Determined to compete at Quarter Horse events, youth rider Shaynah Seames of Bethel, Maine set her goals to include competing at the Region Six Super 6 Series and Novice Regional Championship Show. Though she had several years of competing in local open events she knew stepping up to breed shows would be challenging. In early […]
To most people a pile of discarded farm implements, hand tools and metal hardware too deteriorated for its intended use is merely a heap of junk. To 56-year-old Jenny Horstman of Fort Ann, New York, rusted door knobs, corroded springs, abandoned shovel handles and cast off pieces of metal have the potential to become “body […]
Tom Powers, the founder and manager of the Tom Powers Futurity, one of the most prestigious pleasure horse events in the country, is reporting that this year’s show closed out with a total 749 entries –up 84 over last year’s event. Powers attributes the increase to great weather in Berrien Springs, Michigan, starting the Wednesday […]
It started with her sister. “I was 2 years old and my sister, Amy, was 5. We were at the zoo and this lady was handing out flyers for horseback riding lessons.” And so the love affair began. Katie was born in 1997, to Marie and Barry Bussing. The Evansville, Indiana native followed in her […]
The Appaloosa Youth World Championship Show and AjPHA Youth World Championship Show continue all this week at the Will Rogers Equestrian Center in Fort Worth, Texas. New champions are being named every day but we took a few minutes to ask some competitors about their strategies. Hailey Berger, Parkland, Florida is competing at the Appaloosa […]
When Anne-Marie Fortenberry, Farmerville, Louisiana, lost her beloved four-time American Paint Horse Association World Champion A Good Intention last year due to complications from a joint injection, she was completely devastated. Her mother, Janet, was convinced Anne-Marie would never consider owning another horse. “Mac was my once in a lifetime horse,” Anne-Marie says. ” I […]
