Western Pleasure

Tonight’s Virginia Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure slot class features $46,125 total purse; winner takes home $10,053.52

Tonight’s Virginia Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure slot class features $46,125 total purse; winner takes home $10,053.52

A total of 19 unshown Western Pleasure prospects are slated to compete for a total purse of $46,125 in the Virginia Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Open Western Pleasure Slot Class later today at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington. The winner will collect $10,053.52 and the class will pay all the way down to 10th place. […]

Debby Brehm: Teaming with Ima Golden Machine was meant to be

Debby Brehm: Teaming with Ima Golden Machine was meant to be

Some things are just meant to be and Lincoln, Nebraska Amateur competitor Debby Brehm’s recent teaming with the AQHA show mare, Ima Golden Machine (Mac) is one of them. Bred by Stuart and Karen Banstra, of Pella, Iowa, Ima Golden Machine, a 2017 palomino by Machine Made out of Ima Golden Pleasure was previously owned […]

Gone Western: You don’t have to look past the show pen to spot fashion world’s latest trend

Gone Western: You don’t have to look past the show pen to spot fashion world’s latest trend

The fashion world has gone western. Even GQ magazine contributor Chris Black said in a recent column that although he grew up in Georgia he never wanted to rock a big belt buckle and boots – until now! He wrote….“In the world that I inhabit today, however, nothing is cooler than dressing like a cowboy. […]

Ditty Up: Continuing a tradition of breeding and showing Western Pleasure contenders with youngsters like Forever Twisted and Machine Made Gold

Ditty Up: Continuing a tradition of breeding and showing Western Pleasure contenders with youngsters like Forever Twisted and Machine Made Gold

Since the day he was born, Forever Twisted, Nancy Ditty’s entry for this year’s 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure Slot Class at the March To The Arch this month in Fort Worth, Texas, has been reminding her of life’s most important lesson. Never give up. The 2021 bay gelding, sired by Gone Viral out of […]

Marepower: With Pretty Assets at the center of her small, powerful program Meghan Tierney produces results

Marepower: With Pretty Assets at the center of her small, powerful program Meghan Tierney produces results

It’s breeding season and in print, social media and conversations across the United States and abroad, it’s stallions, stallions, stallions. Who sires the best dispositions? Can I duplicate that stallion’s balance and topline? What get to trainers prefer? But what about the mares? As most savvy breeders agree, the dam contributes more to a foal […]

Ava Hathaway: Road to success can be bumpy

Ava Hathaway: Road to success can be bumpy

Sixteen-year-old Ava Hathaway, of Coldwater, Michigan knows all too well what a roller-coaster ride showing horses at the top level can be. She’s had her share of bumps along the way but staying focused, patient and determined she has also learned that there are just as many high points as there are lows. Like many, […]

A Clean Start: Mare owners and stallion managers agree, a successful breeding season starts with a uterine culture

A Clean Start: Mare owners and stallion managers agree, a successful breeding season starts with a uterine culture

While seasoned broodmare owners and their veterinarians understand how important it is to perform a uterine culture prior to breeding, there are still a lot of misconceptions around its importance, or when and if one is even necessary. However, a uterine culture provides invaluable information about a mare’s reproductive health. Uterine cultures can help determine […]

There’s always something great cooking at Capital Quarter Horses in Pilot Point, Texas

There’s always something great cooking at Capital Quarter Horses in Pilot Point, Texas

Most successful sires don’t arrive by happenstance. They are created carefully by honest assessments of mares and strategic selection of their crossings. Then it takes patience and a solid training program as they are given the opportunity to reach their potential. And that’s just the start of it. Hillary Timchak of Capital Quarter Horses in […]

Crafting the Connection: Bosals serve as an essential tool for communicating with the horse

Crafting the Connection: Bosals serve as an essential tool for communicating with the horse

 Operating within the world of Western Pleasure, precision, control, and the art of subtle communication between horse and rider reign supreme – especially when it comes to horses showing in the junior and futurity events. Many decisions must be made when determining what it will take to show a young horse to the best […]

Cool Breeze: Lee and Brenda Looney’s young stallion already making his mark as a sire

Cool Breeze: Lee and Brenda Looney’s young stallion already making his mark as a sire

            Six years ago Lee and Brenda Looney were on a mission to purchase a stallion – specifically one that would cross on the show mares they had purchased to serve as the backbone of a breeding program they were building at their 101-acre horse farm in Tennessee.             There was only one problem. The […]

Corrival Ranch: Striving to breed the ultimate all-around Quarter Horse

Corrival Ranch: Striving to breed the ultimate all-around Quarter Horse

Nestled in the heart of the Texas hill country, lies Corrival Ranch, a state-of-the-art facility with equipment for breeding, training, and rehabbing equine athletes. As co-owner Susie Phillips tells the story, the idea for Corrival started like many do, on a back porch with a glass of wine. At the time, Phillips was managing the […]