By Corrine Borton on May 14, 2026
AQHA, Horse, Horses, Just Simon, Kylie Moeller, Pinto, showing, Showmanship
Showing

In part four of our six-part series on what it takes to win a World Championship title Kylie Moeller, of Grant, Minnesota, warns fellow competitors that if they want to win a World title in Showmanship they must get control of their nerves. Kylie and Just Simon won the Youth Senior Showmanship last year at […]
By Corrine Borton on January 23, 2025
Allie Rippeon, american quarter horse, AQHA, Horse, Horsemanship, Horses, Maddie Rippeon, NSBA, Quarter Horse Congress, showing, Showmanship, Western Pleasure, World Show
Featured, Features

Bestselling children’s author JK Rowling, who penned the Harry Potter novels once said that “family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” Sisters Allie and Madeline (Maddie) Rippeon, of Mount Airy, Maryland would agree. As fierce competitors on the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) and National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA) show circuits Maddie, 17, […]
By Sarah Welk Baynum on September 24, 2024
american quarter horse, AQHA, equitation, Horse, Horses, Katie Kopf, Melissa Jones, NSBA, Robin Frid, showing, Showmanship, Trail, Western Riding, World Show
Features, Showing

Competition in the pattern classes at top breed shows and futurities has improved so much in the past decade that course designers have had to add maneuvers and to the degree of difficulty just to keep up and make the classes challenging. Some of today’s Showmanship Horsemanship, Equitation, Trail and Ranch patterns can get extremely […]
By Corrine Borton on July 8, 2022
american quarter horse, AQHA, Horse, Horses, NSBA, PHBA, Ranch, showing, Showmanship, World Show
Featured, Features

The Palomino Horse Breeders of America kicked off the 2022 Palomino World Championship Show today with classes in Youth Showmanship, Leadline and Ranch competition, followed by speed events, at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield. Kyrah Bowker, of Moriarty, New Mexico, got off to a strong start by winning a total of five Youth Ranch […]