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 6, 2023
american quarter horse, APHA, AQHA, Doug Landon, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, March To The Arch, NSBA, showing, Tara Landon, Trail, World Show
Showing
Just months after the 2023 March To The Arch concluded in Fort Worth, Texas, show organizers have announced big changes for next year’s event. Back by popular demand will be the two slot classes, with guaranteed money – The $100,000 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure and the $50,000 3-Year-Old & Over Hunter Under Saddle. New […]
By Corrine Borton on February 17, 2023
american quarter horse, AQHA, Christie Arrington, Clay Arrington, Horse, Horses, hunter under saddle, Madeleine Bayless, NSBA, showing, Trail, Western Pleasure, Western Riding, World Show
Featured, Features
Madeleine Bayless waited 20 years to return to showing horses and with the help of two very special new horses – Im Willy Good Today and Best Money Made – 2023 is shaping up to be a year to remember for the Alabama native. Bayless didn’t come from a horse family or have any natural […]
By Corrine Borton on October 25, 2022
american quarter horse, AQHA, Horse, Horses, Micah Hansen, NSBA, showing, Trail, Western Pleasure, World Show
People
Gretna, Nebraska professional trainer Micah Hansen believes that every horse and person has a way that they like to learn and it’s his job to figure out what exactly that is. “I try not to make every horse’s program the same,” he said. That philosophy has served Hansen well as he has navigated the path […]
By Katie Navarra on June 7, 2021
Amelie McAndrews, AQHA, Cole Baker, Equine Dental, equitation, Horsemanship, hunter under saddle, New Bolton, Nicola Pusteria, NSBA, Ryan Cottingham, Trail, Western Pleasure, Western Riding
Featured, Features
Horses in Ryan Cottingham’s Indiana training barn follow the same dental routine as most people – the horses receive an oral exam twice a year. That allows Cottingham and the equine dentist to enable horses to be comfortable so they can perform their best without the distraction of a problem in their mouth. The preventative […]
By Laura Boynton on June 7, 2021
Alan Fisher, Alyse Roberts, AQHA, BITS, Garth Gooding, Jamie Dowdy, Melissa Jones, NSBA, Shawn Alter, Trail, Western Riding
Featured, Features, Uncategorized
The constant pull, achy arm muscles and red blisters that appear on fingers after riding a hard, dull mouthed horse isn’t something any rider wants to experience. When it comes to communicating simple demands like steering and speed control with horses to even more advance training with a young prospect, they all must learn how to […]
By Corrine Borton on December 6, 2018
AQHA, gold coast, hunter under sadle, jumping, Trail, Western Pleasure
News
The Florida Gold Coast Quarter Horse Circuit will return to the Bob Thomas Equestrian Center at the Florida State Fairgrounds on Friday, Dec. 28, and will run through Monday, Dec. 31. In 2016, the Florida Gold Coast Quarter Horse Circuit was named one of the top 10 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) shows in the country, moving […]
By Corrine Borton on July 6, 2017
AQHA, Trail
Organizations
If you and your horse are used to opening and closing a metal gate, that maneuver will come in handy, as the American Quarter Horse Association is replacing rope gates with metal gates in Trail classes at two AQHA world championship shows this year. Exhibitors can view an example on AQHA’s Youtube channel of the type […]