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 […]
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 […]
Entries are now being accepted for the 51st Annual Congress Super Sale, according to Mike Jennings of the Professional Horse Services, LLC, management team. “The Congress Super Sale has proven to be the best Show Horse Auction in America, with the largest crowd to attend any horse auction in the Country. The 2017 Super Sale […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The AQHA Executive Committee approved several recommendations from the AQHA Animal Welfare Commission at the 2017 AQHA Convention. The recommendations ranged from adding specific medications to the AQHA forbidden drugs or substances list to creating educational efforts for specific animal-handling procedures to a recommendation to use all drug- and animal welfare-related fines to support the […]
Josh Little and his wife, Dr. Nikki Wheeler-Little, welcomed their first child, a son, today. The new arrival, named Cade, is the grandson of Little Futurity founders Larry and Gale Little. Josh Little, owns and operates Josh Little Rope Horses in Mebane, North Carolina. Dr. Wheeler is from Ashland, Kentucky and went to veterinary school at […]
