One day last fall, while shopping for farm supplies, Matt and Beth Gouthro, owners of BMG Show Horses in Staunton, Virginia received an unusual phone call. “The caller, Rebecca Rogers Nelson, explained she had found our website while searching the internet and thought I would make a good double for the lead actress in the […]
With the ever-increasing advancements in equine sports medicine, injecting joints has become a kind of normalcy across the disciplines in the equine world. While injecting joints has many positive effects in maintaining your show horse, complications can occur. Therefore, it is critical to be educated on how to reduce the likelihood of a joint infection. […]
There are big numbers at the 2014 Freedom Special Appaloosa Show being held in Cloverdale, Indiana. at the C Bar C Expo Center this weekend. With 700 entries and 200 stalls sold at this year’s event, the Freedom Special Appaloosa Show is the largest appaloosa show in the Midwest. Show management is very excited […]
Since 2000 the Senator Bob Martin Eastern Agriculture Center in Williamston, North Carolina, has hosted the Martinganza Quarter Horse Show and Futurity. But 2014 marks a big change for the show. After months of preparation, meetings and conversations with AQHA officials the Martinganza was moved to a later date. In the past the show has […]
Nestled in the small, Gulf Coast, Texas town of Hempstead is Mary Iris Webre’s farm, “Casa De Los Cielos,” where she raises top Western Pleasure and all around prospects. It is also the home of Chips Hot Chocolate, Admit It Im Good, Allured to Chocolate and Imcrusininahotrod. Many years ago, Webre fell in love with […]
Over a dozen horses will compete for a total purse of $50,000 in the Hylton Maiden 3 & Over Western Pleasure class at the Virginia Classic to be held Saturday, April 12, according to show organizers. Held for the fourth year at the four-day AQHA circuit in Lexington, Virginia, the class will remain open for entries […]
Cleve Wells of Burleson, Texas rode Linda Ball Sargent’s 4-year-old by stallion, A Certain Amble to a win in the Novice Horse Western Pleasure Slot class this weekend at the Madness In March AQHA Show Circuit in Wilmington, Ohio, earning a $15,000 paycheck. A Certain Amble is by Certain Potential out of four-time AQHA World […]
Photos/Text: Courtney Archer Waco, Texas was the place to be this weekend for the 2014 Texas Appaloosa Horse Club Bluebonnet Horse Show. Exhibitors came from as far west as California and all the way from Minnesota to show this weekend. The Bluebonnet Appaloosa Show offered classes from roping to stump races, keyhole to western pleasure, trail, […]
In recent years, the Trail class has become very popular, with much tougher competition. As the level of competition has increased, so has the level of difficulty. The class where show horses that didn’t quite make the pleasure grade found themselves has become a priority class in its own right, with both horses and exhibitors […]
Huntin My Zipper, a 2010 gelding by Hubba Hubba Huntin and out of Ima Zipper Snipper was named the 2013 NSBA Horse of the Year. Owned and shown by Rebekah Kazakevicius of Ocala, Florida, Huntin My Zipper won not only many of the 3-Year-Old Non-Pro Hunter Under Saddle classes at most major futurities including A […]
Since opening its doors in 1986 the Virginia Horse Center has played host to the Virginia Quarter Horse Association’s Spring Breakout Show. For many, this is the first horse show of the season according to some exhibitors. And with the long and cold winter the Northeast experienced exhibitors seemed happy to be out among friends. […]
Checking your mare every day and thinking the long awaited arrival of your new foal may be near? Raising babies can provoke excitement, hope and bliss from the possibility that a truly special foal may be born. On the flip side, many complications can occur during foaling and after birth. So while breeding is not […]
