By Corrine Borton on September 25, 2024
(IN) LIFE, Uncategorized
AQHA and NSBA competitors Drew DeBuhr and Brooke Granzow were married on Sept. 14, at the Haviland Residence in Urbandale, Iowa. Brooke graduated from Valley High School in Iowa and studied Animal Science at Iowa State University. She earned her MBA in Business Administration (Strategic Management) from Drake University. She competes as an Amateur and Non-Pro. […]
By Corrine Borton on September 24, 2024
american quarter horse, AQHA, Caroline Herman, Ella Kate Herman, Gil Galyean, Herman Family, Horse, Horses, J Loww, Lets Holiday, NSBA, Robbie Herman, showing, The Chrome Shoppe, Western Pleasure, World Show
Featured, Features, Uncategorized
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox. For the Herman Family, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, nothing could be closer to the truth. It’s what defines them, both inside the show arena and out. The Hermans have patriarch Dr. Robert Herman to thank for their love of horses and competition. He was […]
By admin on September 13, 2023
Showing, Uncategorized
The Midwest Cash Incentive Challenge (MCIC) classes, held in conjunction with the Combining Colors show and Nebraska Quarter Horse show, awarded over $46,000 in cash and prizes over the Labor Day weekend. The event, now in its second year, drew participants from across the Midwest to showcase the exceptional quality of horses bred, owned, and […]
By Corrine Borton on March 24, 2023
american quarter horse, AQHA, Horse, Horses, Meghan Tierney, NSBA, showing, Virginia Maiden, Virginia Spring Breakout
Showing, Uncategorized
Nine horses will compete for a total purse of $38,687 this afternoon in the 3-Year-Old & Over Maiden Hunter Under Saddle class at the Spring Breakout Circuit in Lexington, Virginia. The class has $30,000 in added money and is the brainchild of Meghan Tierney who, along with Cameron VanSickle, has been helping to manage the Virginia […]
By admin on July 11, 2022
american quarter horse, AQHA, Horse, Horses, NSBA, Palomino, PHBA, showing, Western Pleasure, World Show
Organizations, Uncategorized
The Palomino Horse Breeders of America announced the Golden Horse, High Point winners and the recipient of the Max Eisenberg Memorial Sportsmanship Award at the conclusion of this year’s Youth World Show on Sunday, July 10. The association is holding its World Championship Show in Springfield, Illinois and action started on Thursday, July 7. Open […]
By Laura Boynton on June 7, 2021
Alan Fisher, Alyse Roberts, AQHA, BITS, Garth Gooding, Jamie Dowdy, Melissa Jones, NSBA, Shawn Alter, Trail, Western Riding
Featured, Features, Uncategorized
The constant pull, achy arm muscles and red blisters that appear on fingers after riding a hard, dull mouthed horse isn’t something any rider wants to experience. When it comes to communicating simple demands like steering and speed control with horses to even more advance training with a young prospect, they all must learn how to […]
By Corrine Borton on May 18, 2021
APHA, AQHA, Brad Borton Memorial Non-Pro Longe Line, NSBA, Tom Powers Futurity
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In just three years the Brad Borton Memorial Fund has awarded over $28,000 in cash and prizes to the Top 10 highest placing competitors in the Limited Non-Pro Western Longe Line class at the Tom Powers Futurity, thanks to the generous donations from family members, friends and members of the horse show community. InStride Edition […]
By Brianna Mason on March 24, 2021
AQHA, Nadalee Vasquez, NSBA, One Hundred Percent
People, Uncategorized
It fascinates 17-year-old Nadalee Vasquez to watch a horse maneuver through the obstacles in a Trail course. That’s why it is one of the classes in which she most loves to compete. Horsemanship is another favorite for the Acton, California youth competitor. This year Nadalee is showing One Hundred Percent, a 2013 bay gelding by […]
By Katie Navarra on March 22, 2021
APHA, AQHA, Induced Lactation in Horses, Patrick McCue, Tracie Plummer
Featured, Features, Uncategorized
Tracie Plummer of Meadow Star Farm in North Plains, Oregon got a crash course in raising an orphaned foal in 2016 when her Quarter Horse mare, RL Illustrious, tore her uterus and had to be euthanized shortly after giving birth. After several unsuccessful attempts to graft “Jimmy” onto other mares without success, Plummer trained the Batt […]
By admin on November 17, 2020
People, Uncategorized
Make a plan. Work the plan. Make the plan work. South Carolina professional trainer TR Potts got that advice from his father-in-law many years ago and he says he lives by those rules every day. The son of Verlin Potts and Julie Munson, TR is a third-generation horseman on both sides of his family. Growing up […]
By Corrine Borton on November 2, 2020
Best Brew At The Bar, NSBA, Stallion
Featured, Features, Uncategorized
Experienced breeders all know that successful stallions are genetically dominant. You can always pick out their foals. That’s what’s got Sarah Nimigan and her trainers, Tim and Katy Jo Zuidema so excited about the future of Best Brew At The Bar. Katy Jo has seen several of the foals from the first foal crop of […]
By Brianna Mason on August 11, 2020
Features, Uncategorized
Never Have I Ever added three more prestigious titles to her already impressive dossier this week at the National Snaffle Bit Association’s World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity. This morning, Jay Starnes piloted the 2017 sorrel mare by No Doubt Im Lazy and out of A Certain Illusion, to a World Championship title in […]