By Corrine Borton on October 10, 2024
Al Be Bleu, american quarter horse, AQHA, Good Ol Boys Club, Heres To The Blue, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, Kaitlin Hutchinson, NSBA, Pinball Machine, showing, Tali Terlizzi, Western Pleasure, World Show
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Anyone with even the slightest bit of experience in the show pen knows that there are many variables that go into the making of a champion. Conformation and genetics have big roles. And of course there’s the training aspect. But when you start with an animal that is a natural things just seem to fall […]
By Corrine Borton on September 24, 2024
american quarter horse, Ann Lapacinski, AQHA, Back To Berrien Futurity, Dawn Baker, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, NSBA, showing, World Show
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When she was just a kid, growing up in rural Brill, Wisconsin, Ann Lapacinski was lucky to share a passion for horses and showing with her mother. “When I was in kindergarten I can remember getting picked up by my mom on our old horse Rusty who was a Quarter Horse/Welsh Pony cross and we […]
By admin on July 26, 2023
american quarter horse, Back To Berrien, hunter under saddle, NSBA, showing, Western Pleasure
Candids
Under beautiful blue Michigan skies the second annual Back To Berrien Futurity took place June 21-24, 2023. The show featured a full slate of NSBA Futurity classes and a few special new ones like the inaugural 50 & Over 3-Year-Old Non-Pro Western Pleasure. Exhibitors came from as far as Florida, Texas and Connecticut to the […]
By Corrine Borton on July 6, 2023
american quarter horse, APHA, AQHA, Doug Landon, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, March To The Arch, NSBA, showing, Tara Landon, Trail, World Show
Showing
Just months after the 2023 March To The Arch concluded in Fort Worth, Texas, show organizers have announced big changes for next year’s event. Back by popular demand will be the two slot classes, with guaranteed money – The $100,000 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure and the $50,000 3-Year-Old & Over Hunter Under Saddle. New […]
By Corrine Borton on July 6, 2023
american quarter horse, AQHA, Farley McLendon, Horse, hunter under saddle, NSBA, showing
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Life is good for Farley McLendon. With a thriving training operation in Glencoe, Oklahoma, nice horses like Whatza Matter, Extremely Custom, Al Southern Couture and Hot Dig It, to show along with great clients, these days she’s counting her blessings. Since as far back as she can remember, McLendon has known she wanted to train […]
By Corrine Borton on March 24, 2023
american quarter horse, AQHA, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, Kelly Smith, NSBA, showing, Super Freek
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When March To The Arch organizers announced that this year the Cancer Benefit AQHA show circuit would add a 3-Year-Old Hunter Under Saddle slot class with $50,000 in guaranteed prize money, Georgia trainer Jamie English knew immediately she’d be riding a “freek.” From the first time she and her husband, Jason, got Super Freek (Roger), […]
By Corrine Borton on February 17, 2023
american quarter horse, AQHA, Christie Arrington, Clay Arrington, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, Madeleine Bayless, NSBA, showing, Trail, Western Pleasure, Western Riding, World Show
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Madeleine Bayless waited 20 years to return to showing horses and with the help of two very special new horses – Im Willy Good Today and Best Money Made – 2023 is shaping up to be a year to remember for the Alabama native. Bayless didn’t come from a horse family or have any natural […]
By Corrine Borton on January 10, 2023
Amber Hanson Pickard, Anneene Miller, AQHA, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, NSBA, Quarter Horse Congres, Right Onn, showing, Starland Ranch
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They say that the best time to find the perfect horse is when you are not looking. And although, Anneene Miller, has been hoping to either raise or purchase a stallion to represent Starland Ranch, for some time now, up until recently she had not found one that checked all her boxes. That has all […]
By admin on October 25, 2022
APHA, Breders' Trust, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, NSBA, Western Pleasure, World Show
Organizations
The American Paint Horse Association’s Breeders’ Trust Stakes classes are now available to more 3-year-old Western Pleasure and Hunter Under Saddle horses, thanks to a program enrollment date modification recently approved by the Board of Directors. The former Breeders’ Trust Stakes enrollment deadline has been eliminated. Now, horses can be enrolled in the program up […]
By admin on October 25, 2022
All Time Fancy, APHA, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, Peggy Knaus, showing, World Show
News
Legendary hunt-seat sire and APHA Lifetime Leading Sire All Time Fancy died Oct. 19. Nicknamed “Nike,” the 1998 bay overo stallion by CF Wicked Willie and out of Forced To Be Fancy was bred by Rosemarie Shedd of Rockton, Illinois, and owned by Peggy Knaus of Tuttle, Oklahoma. Nike caught Peggy’s eye as a yearling […]
By admin on October 25, 2022
american quarter horse, APHA, AQHA, Doug Landon, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, March To The Arch, NSBA, showing, Tara Landon, Western Pleasure
Showing
Organizers of the March To The Arch, have announced that its 3-Year-Old & Over Slot classes will award $150,000 in guaranteed money in 2023. $100,000 will be presented in the 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure and $50,000 is being distributed in the 3-Year-Old & Over Hunter Under Saddle. To be eligible in either class horses must […]
By Corrine Borton on October 6, 2022
american quarter horse, AQHA, Beth Case, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, Kaitlin Hutchinsen, NSBA, Rebekah Kazakevicius, showing, World Show
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In her decades-long career in the show arena, Rebekah Kazakevicius has ridden some of the top Hunter Under Saddle contenders out there – horses like Cool Assets, Huntin My Zipper and Not Just Anyhoo. But there’s something about her current show partner, Give Me The Moves (Titan), a 2019 gelding by Give Me The Goods […]