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Services set for Shawn Vaillant

Services set for Shawn Vaillant

AQHA and NSBA competitor Shawn Maree Vaillant, 53 of Ocala, Florida died Nov. 28, at her home in Ocala, Florida. Born in Colorado, Shawn graduated from Denver High School and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Fashion Merchandising from Iowa State University. She moved to Dallas, Texas following graduation in pursuit of her career […]

VS Code Blue making his mark as a sire while expanding show career

VS Code Blue making his mark as a sire while expanding show career

Call it serendipity. Last February when Jan Pittman emailed Donna Biddulph in Oliver, British Columbia and told her that she thought VS Code Blue wanted to move to Florida she never expected his owner’s response. “I think you’re right,” Biddulph replied. Pittman didn’t hesitate. Not this time. It was Pittman’s second chance to own the 2007 […]

December Online Auction features 75 Halter, Performance horses

The Professional Horse Services December Internet Auction features 75 Halter, Performance, Pleasure and All-Around Horses.  Halter and Pleasure horses include show horses, prospects and breeding stock.  The working performance horses are geared to the Reining and Ranch Horse events, as well as trail riding.  Bidding Opens Monday Dec. 5 for the December auction and will […]

Donations still being accepted for Audrey Grace Online Auction

Donations still being accepted for Audrey Grace Online Auction

Donations are still being accepted for the 15th Annual Audrey Grace Auction featured on Pleasurehorse.com forum Dec. 12-18. The auction helps raise funds for the New Horizons Audrey Grace House in Abilene, Texas, part of the Community Center of Care, which provides residential treatment services to children, ages 5 to 17, suffering from emotional, behavioral, […]

Lauren Crivelli has a routine when preparing to compete

Lauren Crivelli has a routine when preparing to compete

Lauren Crivelli has a routine she sticks to as she prepares to enter the show arena to compete. She’s impossible to talk to so don’t even try. She’s in her “zone.” “I get so focused on the way my horse is feeling and the way I want them to feel in the arena that I […]

Computer Arts: Inside the creations of Equine artist Terri Glaser

Computer Arts: Inside the creations of Equine artist Terri Glaser

Most mornings erupt in bright blue skies with a hint of gray in the distance, where the mountains poke through, and the evening sunset reveals a dash of purple that caresses the tree line along the burnt orange background. For Terri Glaser the drive to spend time with her horse, a 17-hand chestnut thoroughbred gelding […]

Couples that judge together share their views on how they make it work

Couples that judge together share their views on how they make it work

Show managers say they are finding that with the popular split/combined and multiple judge format shows, it works for them to hire a husband/wife judging couple to officiate at their shows. There are several advantages for a show to hire a couple – they can share a hotel room and they can cut travel expenses […]

Get the 2017 AQHA Handbook

Get the 2017 AQHA Handbook

The AQHA Official Handbook of Rules and Regulations is now available online in PDF format, in print and via the AQHA Rulebook App. AQHA members can download the rulebook or request a printed copy at www.aqha.com/rulebook. The AQHA rulebook represents corporation bylaws, rules and regulations of registration, rules and regulations of racing, rules and regulations of […]

Sydney Riden grateful for opportunity to show horses

Sydney Riden grateful for opportunity to show horses

Family is the most important thing to 16-year-old Sydney Riden, of Good Hope, Illinois. It was family – parents, Scott and Mindy Riden, grandparents, aunts and sister have all shown horses all their lives and they got Sydney involved when she was just a toddler. “My first show was when I was a year old […]

Maggie Howell recovering from brain surgery; plans training business

Maggie Howell recovering from brain surgery; plans training business

It was August and as the assistant trainer at Missy Thyfault Performance Horses in Shelby, Ohio, 26-year-old Maggie Howell was busy helping to prepare horses for the Quarter Horse Congress. August is always a busy month and this year was no exception. That’s why as Howell’s migraine headaches returned most every day, they were dismissed […]

Colic complications claim the life of Suddenly Extreme

Colic complications claim the life of Suddenly Extreme

Congress and AQHA World Champion Suddenly Extreme was humanely euthanized on Monday following a lengthy battle with colic. “He had a stricture that he was forming,” said his owner, Ruth Rowe, of Elizabeth, Colorado. “Scar tissue started laying down in some segments of his colon. He had some type of parasite when he was young that […]