Horses

Patsi Wolfe: Georgia artist has spent a lifetime painting her way around the horse world

Patsi Wolfe: Georgia artist has spent a lifetime painting her way around the horse world

There’s a bit of soul, grace and strength in the images that come to life on the canvas of Georgia artist Patsi Wolfe. A roaming buffalo. A proud mother duck.  A prized set of spurs. It’s more than the colors, shadows and textures that leave an impression, as the eye and the light dance across […]

Tom Clopp: Enjoying return to the show pen

Tom Clopp: Enjoying return to the show pen

For most people who take a hiatus from showing horses, there’s a bit of a learning curve. A period of adjustment is often needed for the changes that may have occurred in each discipline. But that’s not the case for amateur competitor Tom Clopp, of Charlotte, North Carolina. Clopp, who enjoyed a successful youth and […]

Sydney Swallom gets her love of horses from her grandmother

Sydney Swallom gets her love of horses from her grandmother

When Sydney Swallom was just 8 years old, her grandmother gave her the opportunity to show her Quarter Horse show mare, A Certain Melody, in Walk-Trot classes and the Washington native says she never looked back. “Nothing makes me happier than my horses,” she said. “The barn is my happy place and I can’t imagine […]

Back To Berrien: New futurity in Michigan offers full slate of NSBA classes and AQHA Special Event

Back To Berrien: New futurity in Michigan offers full slate of NSBA classes and AQHA Special Event

The Berrien Springs Fairgrounds will once again be the backdrop for National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA) classes when a brand-new futurity welcomes competitors to the southwestern corner of Michigan in June.The facility was home to the Tom Powers Futurity from 1985 until 2020 when it was announced that the futurity would be moved to Wilmington, […]

Outlaw Enterprises headed to Pilot Knob Studs for 2022 breeding season

Outlaw Enterprises headed to Pilot Knob Studs for 2022 breeding season

When you start with a big, strong, beautiful and correct prospect with solid conformation and a great mind, success follows.That is exactly the case with AQHA and NSBA World Champion Outlaw Enterprise, a 2017 bay stallion, sired by Iron Enterprise and out of Lastminuteinvestment. Bred by Marcie McClenon, of Dunnellon, Florida, Outlaw Enterprise (Cosmo) was purchased […]

Competition continues at NSBA World Show, Breeders Futurity

Competition continues at NSBA World Show, Breeders Futurity

Moonrageous’ win with Aaron Moses in the 3-Year-Old $1,000 Novice Horse Open Western Pleasure on Thursday at the National Snaffle Bit Association’s World Championship Show in Tulsa, was the highlight of the year for owner Annee Miller, of Starland Ranch in El Reno, Oklahoma. “He just goes in and does his job,” Miller said. “I’ve […]

NSBA crowns new World Champions, BCF winners

NSBA crowns new World Champions, BCF winners

Competition continues at the National Snaffle Bit Association’s 13th Annual World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity, in Tulsa, Oklahoma this week. On Monday in Western Pleasure action, VodkaMadeMeDoIt and Erin Lieurance captured a win in the 10-entry BCF 2-Year-Old Intermediate Open Western Pleasure earning $1,262.03. The bay mare is sired by RL Best Of Sudden […]

Sloww Motion: Hall/Seebach purchase promising young stallion

Sloww Motion: Hall/Seebach purchase promising young stallion

Timing is everything. At least that’s what Dr. Candice Hall and Dr. Cory Seebach, of Black Creek, British Columbia, believe. It was true when they purchased leading Western Pleasure sire Machine Made back in 2010. “We went from ‘love at first sight’ to an extensive education in breeding and bloodlines,” Candice admits. And now, it’s […]

NSBA World Show and Breeders Futurity opens with record numbers

NSBA World Show and Breeders Futurity opens with record numbers

The National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA) opened its 13thannual World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity on Sunday with competition in three different arenas. According to organizers more than 5,000 World Show and BCF entries have already been received with more expected as the show unfolds. That tops last year’s final entry tally of 4,621. […]

Brian Ale welcomes Talkin The Talk back to New Jersey for retirement

Brian Ale welcomes Talkin The Talk back to New Jersey for retirement

It was a very emotional reunion in Bridgeton, New Jersey this week as the Ale family welcomed home the horse they credit with making trainer Brian Ale the horseman he is today. After nearly two decades of helping countless riders achieve their dreams, both inside and outside the show arena, Talkin The Talk, a 1997 […]

University of Findlay hosts futurity to showcase horses in Saturday’s sale

University of Findlay hosts futurity to showcase horses in Saturday’s sale

The University of Findlay will host its 14th annual Spring Horse Sale tomorrow, at the Western Farm in the Dale Wilkinson Arena, 14700 U.S. Route 68 south of Findlay, Ohio. Today, graduating seniors competed in the program’s Clark Bradley Pleasure Futurity, a Western Pleasure class designed to showcase their 2-year-old futurity prospects. These horses will […]

18 entered in Hylton Maiden Slot Class set for 8 p.m. today in Virginia

18 entered in Hylton Maiden Slot Class set for 8 p.m. today in Virginia

Organizers say 18 horses and riders are entered in the Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old and Over Western Pleasure Slot Class, being presented at 8 p.m., today, during the Spring Breakout/Dave Higgins Memorial Show in Lexington, Virginia. The class has a guaranteed payout of $74,000 with $25,000 going to the winner. A $2,500 bonus will be paid […]

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