AQHA and NSBA competitor Whitney Wilson, married Ryan Small on May 21, at the Biltmore Estate in Ashville, North Carolina. Whitney completed undergraduate work at Ohio State University and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Findlay. She is a Marketing Consultant at Thrivent. Ryan graduated from Appalachian State University and owns […]
InStride Edition Advertising Director Courtney Borton Ament and her husband, Jonathan, of Charlotte, North Carolina, welcomed their second child, a daughter named Sloane Madeline, on Dec. 10. The new arrival was 7 pounds, 3 ounces and 20.5 inches. She joins a brother, Sawyer Bradley. Courtney competes in AQHA and NSBA Non-Pro Western Pleasure and Jonathan […]
Professional AQHA and NSBA trainers Becca and Blake Britton welcomed their first child on Dec. 27. The new arrival, named Briggs Ronald, was 7 pounds, 5 ounces and 21 inches. Together Becca and Blake own and operate Blake Britton Show horses in Chillicothe, Ohio.
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame member Carol Harris, 98, died Aug. 7, in Florida. Noted for her legendary American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame stallion Rugged Lark, Harris grew up in West Orange, New Jersey. Her first horse was a Standardbred – a pacer that she turned into a trotter. She exhibited Hackney ponies, Arabians, Saddlebreds […]
Keith Whistle, renowned Western Pleasure horse showman, died Aug. 3, at the age of 67. Born in Hayti, Missouri, Whistle was the first person to be inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame. He won both the 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure Futurity and the 3-Year-Old Western Pleasure Derby at the All-American Quarter Horse […]
InStride Edition equine law columnist, Katherine Jarve, an AQHA and NSBA competitor from New Jersey, was married to Joseph Opalka, in a beautiful ceremony at St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church in Jamison, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 14. A lavish reception followed at River House at Odette’s in New Hope, where Katherine’s father, Mati, who wrote the […]
AQHA and NSBA competitor Shannon Vroegh and Brent Walker were married on July 24, at Assumption Church in Granger, Iowa. A reception followed at the Des Moines Embassy Club in Iowa. Shannon owns and operates Show Horses by Shannon.
Well known AQHA and NSBA competitor Mary (Lynn) Leedy, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, passed away on July 2. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Leedy founded Ski-Haus Sports in Oklahoma City in the mid-1970’s. Lynn also took a leadership role at the family hotel in Jensen Beach, Florida. In the 1990s she founded Lynn Leedy Interiors. […]
Well-known equine photographer and graphic designer Kelly Barnes Pella, most recently of Ocala, Florida, has passed away following a brief medical emergency. For decades Kelly photographed many of the industry’s top show and breeding horses and designed advertising for nearly all the industry’s equine publications and, in fact, she was the photographer for InStride Edition’s […]
Mabelene Gwyn Harris, matriarch of the Harris Leather & Silverworks family in North Carolina, passed away on Friday, April 2, at Pruitt Health in Elkin. She was 81. Born in Patrick County, North Carolina, Mabelene started tooling leather belts and purses in the 1960s in North Carolina. She took her handiwork along when her husband, Ralph, […]
AQHA and NSBA competitor Annelise Kimmel and Michael Majors, of Ohio, announce the birth of a daughter, on Feb. 18. The new arrival, named Montana Jane, weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces and was 20-inches at birth. Annelise is the owner of Carolina Moon/Wild West Furniture. Michael is the owner of Majors Supply in Monroe, Ohio.
After taking home a silver globe in the Amateur Select Western Pleasure with Carrie Oakley in the saddle at the AQHA World Championship show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the 2016 mare by Machine Made and out of Good N Green was sold to Robin Shiflett of Waynesboro, Georgia. Made N May will show under the […]
