Jason English

Ditty Up: Continuing a tradition of breeding and showing Western Pleasure contenders with youngsters like Forever Twisted and Machine Made Gold

Ditty Up: Continuing a tradition of breeding and showing Western Pleasure contenders with youngsters like Forever Twisted and Machine Made Gold

Since the day he was born, Forever Twisted, Nancy Ditty’s entry for this year’s 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure Slot Class at the March To The Arch this month in Fort Worth, Texas, has been reminding her of life’s most important lesson. Never give up. The 2021 bay gelding, sired by Gone Viral out of […]

Flatout Kool: Making her debut under saddle at The Sudden Impulse futurity

Flatout Kool: Making her debut under saddle at The Sudden Impulse futurity

A lot has happened since Suzan VonEssen used to strap a pillow on her dad’s sawhorse to ride in the garage of her family’s Tarrytown, New York home. “I was a horse-crazy girl for sure,” she explained. “Anytime we were somewhere that had trail riding or horses to pet, I was there.” Then came college, […]

14 Western Pleasure contenders vie for $37,982 purse today in Hylton Maiden

14 Western Pleasure contenders vie for $37,982 purse today in Hylton Maiden

A total purse of $37,982 will be up for grabs today as 14 unshown Western Pleasure contenders compete for the first time in the Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Open Western Pleasure Class at the Spring Breakout AQHA Show in Lexington, Virginia. The winner of the Hylton Maiden take home a check for $10,000 and […]

Gone Viral’s future as a sire as bright as his show career

Gone Viral’s future as a sire as bright as his show career

When a message is said to have “Gone Viral” online it means that it has spread rapidly through a population by being frequently shared with many individuals – because it evokes emotions that spur the viewer to share it. Kari Craft’s 2014 bay stallion, Gone Viral, by No Doubt Im Lazy and out of Suddenly […]

Zuidema tried out World Champion Al Wayz On Your Mind in yoga pants

Zuidema tried out World Champion Al Wayz On Your Mind in yoga pants

Al Wayz On Your Mind collected his third win at the National Snaffle Bit Association’s World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity this week in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This time Katy Jo Zuidema rode the 2014 bay gelding to a win in the 3-Year-Old Novice Horse Hunter Under Saddle to get the competition started in the […]

Orphan foal makes debut at NSBA World Show; Recap of competition

Orphan foal makes debut at NSBA World Show; Recap of competition

    He had a shaky start in life but on Monday a yearling gelding, orphaned at birth, fulfilled the dreams of his breeder and owner by making his show debut at the National Snaffle Bit Association’s World Championship Show in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Although he didn’t place in the Top 10 in the Open and […]

Bret Parrish, Pistol Packin Mann win Hylton Maiden Western Pleasure

Bret Parrish, Pistol Packin Mann win Hylton Maiden Western Pleasure

Bret Parrish, of Pavo, Georgia, piloted Pistol Packin Mann to a win in the 2017 Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure at the Spring Breakout/Dave Higgins Memorial Show, in Lexington, Virginia tonight, collecting a check for $25,000. Parrish said the Hylton Maiden class was always the plan for the 2013 sorrel gelding sired by […]