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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
At the center of the performance horse breeding program that Betty Carr has been meticulously assembling for over three decades now, is a single premise – always improve the herd. It was born in her. It’s how she was raised. As the daughter of a dairy farmer growing up in Bremen, Indiana, Betty was showing […]
It’s safe to say that Amateur competitor Meg Pye likes pretty horses. She even owns one that’s “Prettiest Of All.” After showing Hotroddin Ona Harley for five years, earning a National Snaffle Bit Association World Championship and Quarter Horse Congress Reserve Championship in Western Riding and hundreds of American Quarter Horse Association points in all-around […]
A few years back, Scott Jones finally heeded the advice a special woman in his life shared (actually, yelled at) him: “Let go.” And since he took some time away from the business, he has come back fresher and with a renewed enthusiasm. But it took a long time and a lot of stress to […]
The All American Quarter Horse Congress announced today a change in format for the 2022 futurities. Congress Futurity and Stakes classes will be run in a “one-go format.” Open finals will be placed at the conclusion of the one-go. This will encompass all Futurity and Stake classes with the exception of the 2-Year-Old Maiden Open […]
Florida amateur competitor Jennifer Leavengood took one look at the registration papers for Al Be Worth It and just knew. Her trainer, Beth Case, had purchased the 2019 bay colt by Allocate Your Assets and out of The Last Wahoo from his breeder, Nancy Sue Ryan, when he was just a few days old. She […]
