Drew and Kate Emnett literally changed horses midstream for the $9,800 2013 Farnam 2-Year-Old Hunter Under Saddle Stakes. Drew’s dream was to see his wife Kate win the inaugural class, which only yearlings sold through the Breeders’ Trust Select Sale the previous year are eligible to enter. “Last year, Kate went to bed […]
At the opening of the 2013 Farnam Breeders’ Trust Select Sale on Nov. 10, APHA Executive Director Billy Smith announced that new incentive classes might be offered for eligible 3- and 4-year-olds that went through the sale as yearlings. Currently, yearlings who are entered into the Breeders’ Trust Select Yearling Sales Stakes Session are […]
News has just been reported of the passing of Multiple AQHA World and Congress Champion Good I Will Be The 2004 stallion underwent extensive veterinary care and ultimately ended up being treated by Texas A&M University Veterinary Hospital. He underwent surgery for a kidney stone but did not recover well from surgery and had […]
Angelik Gallitzendoerfer’s took a fancy to a loud overo yearling filly at 2012 Farnam Breeders’ Trust Select Yearling Stakes Sale, and longtime dream of showing in the APHA World Show began. The German horse trainer was visiting the States last year when she won a bid of $5,500 for Paint Me Really Fancy. Not […]
Spirits are up and sights are set high as the AQHA World Championship Show is now in full swing for the 40th year. During its two weeks of competition from Nov. 8-23 at the State Fair Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the show will crown 98 new World Champions in amateur and open competition of […]
Wade Parks is having one heckuva year. The 28-year-old married his sweetheart and training partner Carley Veldman on July 13, and in September won the Reichert Celebration Color Classic 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure riding Sensational Design with his bride taking reserve on My Sensational Star. Then, on November 9, Wade did it again, riding […]
In 1989 Joan and Robbie Schroeder left Bob Perry Quarter Horses, home of Zippo Pine Bar, to establish their own identity in Gainesville, Texas, the heart of horse country. For the next 20-plus years they committed themselves to their vision of producing and training some of the very best horses for competition in Western Pleasure, […]
Dan & Carol McWhirter American Quarter Horse Association Leading Breeders, Dan and Carol McWhirter, have developed a breeding program that paved the path of the modern Western Pleasure horse. The Big Investment and AQHA Hall of Fame stallion, The Invester, were just the first in a long line of sires from […]
Is bigger really better? That’s long been the question at the center of Hunter Under Saddle competition. From weekend shows to World Championship events, owners, riders and spectators have had sometimes heated debates over whether it is necessary to have a 17-hand-plus mount to be called to the top of a judge’s line up. Trainers […]
When they met 10 years ago at a bonfire in the neighborhood, Virginia Owen and Sarah Peter had no idea of the type of bond that would form between the two. Sarah was new to the area. She and her family had just moved to Greenville, South Carolina from Germany because of her father’s […]
The location was the T. Ed Garrison Arena, Clemson, S.C., Oct. 1, 2011 – The occasion was the Palmetto Paint Horse Club’s Fall Futurity and Paint-O-Rama, and the class was Green Hunter Under Saddle. An elegant 2-year-old sorrel overo colt navigated effortlessly through the 18-horse field. Although it was the youngster’s first time out in […]
