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NSBA World Championship Show

NSBA World Championship Show

The National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA) host its 12th Annual World Championship Show this week in Tulsa, Oklahoma. More than $500,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded and, in addition to the World Show classes, which are qualifying events, the NSBA Breeders Championship Futurity and Stakes classes will also be featured throughout the week. […]

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 […]

Touching messages pour in for photographer Don Trout

Touching messages pour in for photographer Don Trout

Words of encouragement and fond memories from friends and customers have been pouring in from all over the globe for Texas equine photographer Don Trout who passed away today following a battle with cancer. Don was transported the hospital on July 23, and scans then showed rapid tumor growth and spread, said his wife and […]

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 […]

Ashley Frye earns her degree

Ashley Frye earns her degree

After four long years of hard work and dedication AQHA competitor Ashley Frye of Galax, Virginia earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Radiologic Science from East Tennessee State University’s College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. “This field interested me because I love helping people and I also love working with technology so the imaging part […]

Cathy Starnes, Brenda Yates have been riding together for 50 years

Cathy Starnes, Brenda Yates have been riding together for 50 years

A friendship that ignited with horse racing down dirt roads followed by a splash into the cow pond to cool off is 50 years old this year and showing no signs of fading. Brenda Yates and Cathy Starnes, of South Carolina both show on the AQHA and NSBA circuits and have been friends since they met […]

Seth Marlatt laid to rest in Indiana

Seth Marlatt laid to rest in Indiana

Funeral services were held Saturday for trainer Seth Michael Marlatt, of Greencastle, Indiana, who died on May 2, at the age of 35. He was born Sept. 6, 1981 in Greencastle, the son of Michael and Brenda (Adams) Marlatt and was a 2000 graduate of Greencastle High School. Marlatt was a horse trainer having worked […]

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 […]

Its A Southern Thing (Moonpie) special since day one, Gumz says

Its A Southern Thing (Moonpie) special since day one, Gumz says

He was special from day one. When Shesa Hot Cookie’s 2010 foal by Only In The Moonlite was born at Gumz Farms in Morganfield, all of the staff teased Amy Gumz that he knew who to warm up to – the one who pays the bills. “After delivering over a thousand foals, you can easily […]

Hayley Saul enjoys the challenge of starting over

Hayley Saul enjoys the challenge of starting over

Hayley Saul, a 27-year-old Amateur competitor from Des Arc, Arkansas admits it’s not easy starting over with a new show partner, especially in Trail and other all-around events, but it’s what she loves the most and what motivates her to show. “I love the reward of finishing a young horse,” she said. “Taking them to […]