Quarter Horse Congress

Batt Man changes ownership; standing 2018 season in Texas

Batt Man changes ownership; standing 2018 season in Texas

AQHA World and Congress Champion sire Batt Man has new owners and he will be standing the 2018 breeding season at Joan Schroeder’s Kiowa Ranch in Collinsville, Texas, it was announced this week. Trevor Barnes and Jack Creditt, both of Ohio, are now the owners of the 2006 bay stallion, sired by Good Version and […]

AQHA Stallion Gone Viral to Stand at Stud for 2018 Breeding Season

AQHA Stallion Gone Viral to Stand at Stud for 2018 Breeding Season

Due to such a high volume of interest in multiple NSBA World Champion Stallion, Gone Viral, owner Kari Craft of Greensboro, Georgia is excited to announce that he will be standing to a limited number of mares in 2018! “We are looking forward to not only watching this great horse make his mark as a […]

NSBA World show sees repeat winners in Wednesday competition

NSBA World show sees repeat winners in Wednesday competition

The National Snaffle Bit Association made competition at its 2017 World Championship Show in Tulsa an early day on Wednesday as it prepared for its annual Awards Banquet held at the Doubletree Hotel. But there was still plenty of action in all three arenas as new World Champions were crowned and Breeders Championship Futurity winners […]

Trail and Western Pleasure take center stage Tuesday in Tulsa

Trail and Western Pleasure take center stage Tuesday in Tulsa

It was a busy day Tuesday in the Super Duty Arena as Trail dominated the morning’s competition at the National Snaffle Bit Association’s World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Angela Wade ruled the Amateur Trail, with a total of 42 entries, by collecting both a Championship and Reserve Championship trophy. Wade […]

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 […]

Keep your head high, your heart humble and your “Assets Pretty”

Keep your head high, your heart humble and your “Assets Pretty”

It took Meghan Tierney, of Augusta, New Jersey a grand total of 30 seconds to know that Pretty Assets was the horse for her. What she could never have imagined is how big a role the pretty bay mare would come to play in her life.   In the spring of 2016, after taking a […]

Sarah Rosciti finds raising successful foals fulfilling

Sarah Rosciti finds raising successful foals fulfilling

Sarah Rosciti, of North Scituate, Rhode Island, wants to win that big prize as much as the next guy. But the Maine native says she gets just as much satisfaction when a foal she and her family bred and raised is successful for their new owners.   Sarah is married to Henry Rosciti. He, Sarah […]

Bringing The Bids: Consignors Offer Tips On Selling Yearlings At Auction

Bringing The Bids: Consignors Offer Tips On Selling Yearlings At Auction

Although selling a horse in the current economic climate may not be as easy as it once was, breeders of show horses do have more methods open to them than ever before. Social media has made it easy to connect with potential buyers from across the globe.   But the one method that has withstood […]

AQHYA Officers and Directors Named for 2017-18

AQHYA Officers and Directors Named for 2017-18

American Quarter Horse Youth Association regional directors and five national officers for the 2017-18 term were elected July 13 at the Bank of America Youth Excellence Seminar in Amarillo. AQHYA Executive Committee members and regional directors play a major role in the youth association by planning events, participating in community service projects and spreading the word about […]

Carli Pitts joins her parents as professional trainer at P-5

Carli Pitts joins her parents as professional trainer at P-5

She’s only been training professionally for two years but it seems like a lifetime when you are the daughter of professional trainers and it’s what you imagined you would always be doing.   “My parents are horse trainers so I grew up around them,” she said. “I first started competing around the age of 6 […]

Marsh, O’Brien new Findlay directors

Marsh, O’Brien new Findlay directors

Two long time instructors in the University of Findlay’s Western Equestrian Program will now serve in director roles, according to Darin Fields, Ph.D., vice president for academic affairs. Meri (Sheffler) Marsh, is interim director of Equestrian Studies and Equine Management, while Art O’Brien is director of the Western Equestrian Program. Joining the western program as […]

AQHA acts on committee recommendations

The American Quarter Horse Association Executive Committee met April 24-26 in Amarillo to review the standing-committee recommendations approved at the 2017 AQHA Convention by the AQHA Board of Directors, with the exception of those related to bylaw changes and rules of registration, for which final approval lies with the board of directors. Even though some […]