AQHA Equestrians with Disabilities competitors squared off February 10 in Jackson, Mississippi, at the 2015 Dixie National Quarter Horse Show, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The show set a new record of entries with 484 and featured para-reining for the first time. Following on the heels of the AQHA EWD classes, February 11 featured […]
For 10 days in Scottsdale, Arizona, a great portion of the American Quarter Horse show industry’s top athletes vied for class wins, AQHA points, fantastic prizes, circuit championships, plus high-point and all-around titles at the Arizona Quarter Horse Association’s biggest event of the year. The American Quarter Horse Journal congratulates the following 2015 Arizona Sun […]
Exhibitors wrapped up the 2014 show season December 27-30 at the Tulsa Holiday Winter Circuit in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The four-day show featured six judges, plus added money that some jingle back in exhibitors’ pockets. Kelsie Holman of Spring, Texas, was named the Everett Salley High-Point Youth Exhibitor. Keslie’s teammate was Range Agent, a 2008 sorrel […]
How many times have those of us who show Quarter Horses suffered cold, rain, hard ground, lack of warm-up area, schooling at 3a.m…. we laugh – yes – all of us have experienced these conditions and will likely experience them again in the future. It’s part of showing Quarter Horses and that’s what we do. […]
Brian Baker, of Sunbury, Ohio, rode KM Call Me Honey to a win in Sunday’s featured event – the Maturity $10,000 Limited Horse Open Western Pleasure – at the Fun In The Sun show in Venice, Florida, earning $1,750 for owners Theresa and Kerry Love, Westminster, Maryland. The two-day inaugural event featured 68 classes, many […]
“Paradise Awaits” is the slogan for Venice, Florida and that’s what exhibitors found when they arrived to show at the Fun In The Sun Extravaganza, starting Saturday at Fox Lea Farms located just south of Sarasota along Florida’s white-sanded Gulf Coast. The all-breed show is featuring 68 classes in disciplines including Trail, Western Pleasure, Horsemanship, […]
Scenic Fox Lea Farms in Venice, Florida, will play host to a brand new two-day National Snaffle Bit Association-approved all-breed show held prior to the Fox Lea Winter Circuit Fox Lea Winter Circuit. The Fun In The Sun Extravaganza, held on Jan. 3-4, will feature more than 36 classes in all disciplines for open, non-pro […]
The final leg of the 2014 Premier Paint Sires series, presented by InStride Edition, will be held during the Iowa Breeders Futurity, Sept. 20-21 in Des Moines. The program has already paid out over $50,000 in the first two legs of the program – the first in Salt Lake City, Utah in May and the […]
The North Carolina Quarter Horse Association District V “Endless Summer” AQHA Show this weekend, at the Bob Martin Agriculture Center in Williamston, North Carolina will feature a $10,000 added Green Western Pleasure Class on Saturday, thanks to a generous donation by Cecilia Hylton, Gainesville, Virginia. Hylton has deep roots in the industry. She purchased her […]
Amidst the tough competition of the World Wide Paint Horse Congress, the APHA family came together to remember two former members who left their mark on the industry. The Lynn Simons Memorial Halter Futurity and the Beth Beuchler Limited Series honored their respective namesakes while paying out big prizes to excited exhibitors. Lynn Simons Memorial […]
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 […]
It’s starting to fill up at the Berrien County fairgrounds in Michigan as competitors travel from all over to compete at one the most prestigious futurities in the country – The Tom Powers Triple Challenge. Tara Anderson is in Berrien Springs to band and braid for competitors. A Lancaster, Pennsylvania resident, Anderson has been attending […]