World Show

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 […]

$70,000 payout for western pleasure and hunter under saddle at APHA World Show

$70,000 payout for western pleasure and hunter under saddle at APHA World Show

The Farnam Pleasure Stakes, Challenges and Sweepstakes classes for Western pleasure and hunter under saddle at the 2017 APHA Open/Amateur World Championship Show are more rewarding than ever. With the entry deadline fast approaching, don’t miss your chance to take home a piece of over $70,000 in added money and prizes earmarked for these events. Farnam […]

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 […]

Legendary AQHA show horse Zippo LTD dies at the age of 30 in Texas

Legendary AQHA show horse Zippo LTD dies at the age of 30 in Texas

Zippo LTD, one of the American Quarter Horse Association’s most decorated show horses of all time, has died at the age of 30. Julia Taylor Cheek, of Dallas, Texas purchased Zippo LTD in 2000, earned many of his youth and amateur points and World and Congress titles and owned him until his death. “It’s with […]

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 […]

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 […]

All-Around winners at Level 1 East Championships named

All-Around winners at Level 1 East Championships named

After nearly a week of competition, top exhibitors earned prizes May 7 at the 2017 Nutrena East AQHA Level 1 Championships in Raleigh, North Carolina. Christine Gudas of Lafayette, Indiana, arrived in Raleigh with one goal: to finish in the top 10 in one class. She did that and more. At the end of the […]

2018 AQHA Youth World to offer 13 & Under classes

2018 AQHA Youth World to offer 13 & Under classes

Level 3 13-&-Under core classes have been added to the 2018 American Quarter Horse Association’s World Championship Show. The classes were recommended by the American Quarter Horse Association Show Committee at the 2017 AQHA Convention and were recently approved by the AQHA Executive Committee. Exhibitors can qualify to compete in Level 3 13-&-Under Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle, […]

Industry mourns loss of legendary broodmare Goodbars Glamourgirl

Industry mourns loss of legendary broodmare Goodbars Glamourgirl

Tim and Barb Delf, of Blue Grass, Iowa, report the death of legendary American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) broodmare, Goodbars Glamourgirl today just two weeks before her 21st birthday. Sired by Zippos Mr Good Bar and out of Mitos Magic Moment, Goodbars Glamourgirl is an all-time leading AQHA dam. Her foals have earned over 5,100 […]

Surrogate dams come to the rescue of some worried foal owners

Surrogate dams come to the rescue of some worried foal owners

When things go right there is nothing that is more satisfying than ushering a new foal into the world….and celebrating the fruition of a year of planning, care and a safe delivery. But when problems occur, like the death of a mare or the rejection of a foal, breeders are thrust into the reality of […]

2017 Pinto World Championship set for June 12-24 in Tulsa

2017 Pinto World Championship set for June 12-24 in Tulsa

The Pinto Horse Association is planning the largest gathering of Pintos for the 52nd annual Pinto World Championship show June 12-24, at the Built Ford Tough Livestock Complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The 13-day show hosts equines and exhibitors from around the globe. Exhibitors will compete for world titles, rosette ribbons, belt buckles and many more awards. […]