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Touching messages pour in for photographer Don Trout

Touching messages pour in for photographer Don Trout

Words of encouragement and fond memories from friends and customers have been pouring in from all over the globe for Texas equine photographer Don Trout who passed away today following a battle with cancer. Don was transported the hospital on July 23, and scans then showed rapid tumor growth and spread, said his wife and […]

Bringing The Bids: Consignors Offer Tips On Selling Yearlings At Auction

Bringing The Bids: Consignors Offer Tips On Selling Yearlings At Auction

Although selling a horse in the current economic climate may not be as easy as it once was, breeders of show horses do have more methods open to them than ever before. Social media has made it easy to connect with potential buyers from across the globe.   But the one method that has withstood […]

AQHYA Officers and Directors Named for 2017-18

AQHYA Officers and Directors Named for 2017-18

American Quarter Horse Youth Association regional directors and five national officers for the 2017-18 term were elected July 13 at the Bank of America Youth Excellence Seminar in Amarillo. AQHYA Executive Committee members and regional directors play a major role in the youth association by planning events, participating in community service projects and spreading the word about […]

Carli Pitts joins her parents as professional trainer at P-5

Carli Pitts joins her parents as professional trainer at P-5

She’s only been training professionally for two years but it seems like a lifetime when you are the daughter of professional trainers and it’s what you imagined you would always be doing.   “My parents are horse trainers so I grew up around them,” she said. “I first started competing around the age of 6 […]

AQHA replacing rope gates with metal gates in Trail

AQHA replacing rope gates with metal gates in Trail

If you and your horse are used to opening and closing a metal gate, that maneuver will come in handy, as the American Quarter Horse Association is replacing rope gates with metal gates in Trail classes at two AQHA world championship shows this year. Exhibitors can view an example on AQHA’s Youtube channel of the  type […]

Tom Powers Futurity opens today in Michigan with wide range of classes

Tom Powers Futurity opens today in Michigan with wide range of classes

The Tom Powers Futurity, now in its 38th year got started today with great weather, great competition and great prizes. Stall rentals this year are about the same as last year, according to founder Tom Powers. The event is one of the largest and longest-running futurities in the world. A pre-futurity was featured on Sunday […]

Oregon Summer Classic offers big checks and amazing prizes

Oregon Summer Classic offers big checks and amazing prizes

  The Oregon Summer Classic took place last weekend in Central Point, Oregon. The show featured a full slate of AQHA classes as well as a select NSBA futurity classes that included Western Pleasure, Trail Sweepstakes, Longe Line and Hunter Under Saddle. Scottsdale Western World saddles and Caliente Saddle Shop saddles are among the prizes […]

Legendary AQHA show horse Zippo LTD dies at the age of 30 in Texas

Legendary AQHA show horse Zippo LTD dies at the age of 30 in Texas

Zippo LTD, one of the American Quarter Horse Association’s most decorated show horses of all time, has died at the age of 30. Julia Taylor Cheek, of Dallas, Texas purchased Zippo LTD in 2000, earned many of his youth and amateur points and World and Congress titles and owned him until his death. “It’s with […]

Whitney Wilson, Wisely Lopin win Little Futurity Non-Pro Slot Class

Whitney Wilson, Wisely Lopin win Little Futurity Non-Pro Slot Class

Whitney Wilson, of Zanesville, Ohio rode away with $3,808 on Tuesday in the Non-Pro 3 & Over Slot Class aboard Wisely Lopin, to close out the 2017 Little Futurity in Raleigh, North Carolina. A total of seven horses competed in the class open to horses that had not earned $7,500 by the start of the […]

Marsh, O’Brien new Findlay directors

Marsh, O’Brien new Findlay directors

Two long time instructors in the University of Findlay’s Western Equestrian Program will now serve in director roles, according to Darin Fields, Ph.D., vice president for academic affairs. Meri (Sheffler) Marsh, is interim director of Equestrian Studies and Equine Management, while Art O’Brien is director of the Western Equestrian Program. Joining the western program as […]

AQHA to consider ban of Lasix

While the American Quarter Horse Association recognizes the therapeutic benefits of the drug furosemide, commonly known as Lasix, to help mitigate the occurrence of exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) in racehorses, the AQHA Executive Committee recently asked the AQHA Animal Welfare Commission to review the proposed prohibition of Lasix for show horses, set to be effective […]

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