“I’ve never made the finals before, so I was thrilled with just that,” she says. “This is just a complete bonus. It hasn’t quite sunk in yet.”

To look at the smiling face and witness the exuberant personality of AQHA youth, Rebecca Anderson, you’d never know she had to overcome some difficult circumstances to attend the Youth World Show this year. More specifically, Anderson is currently competing with two skull fractures and a brain bleed.

“I didn’t expect that many to come back [to the jump-off],” Myers says. “Usually, it’s only three or four, so it was definitely scary. It got us going, and we tried to get a really good time on the first one. Sylvester is really good at turning, so we tried to make as tight of turns as we could.”

Horses weren’t the only animals receiving applause during last night’s competitive Western Pleasure finals at the 2013 AQHYA World Show. A baby bat decided to make an appearance as well. The tiny creature took a few laps of his own around the arena before swooping down to visit the exhibitors, check out the judges, and […]

“Gordon Downey deserves a lot of credit for the gold idea,” she says. “He has always referred to Buttercup as ‘the golden goddess of western pleasure,’ and I guess that’s how it all started!”

After five very tough cuts, two semifinals, and a final cut to narrow the field to the top 15, the Youth Western Pleasure finalists at the 2013 AQHYA World Show have been named. The Western Pleasure finals will take place bright and early Thursday morning with judges Kim Myers, Jennifer Lynn, Matt Howell, Scott Neuman, […]

Although the Chant girls weren’t able to attend the show, Crawford decided to go through with the original plan and has accumulated 40 signatures in just four days. As she makes the journey around the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds with the latest edition of the Equine Chronicle and colored pens in hand, she’s received different responses.

After a very long day of Youth Showmanship preliminaries and semi-finals at the 2013 AQHYA World Show, the top 15 finalists have been named. Judging the finals Tuesday afternoon will be Holly Hover, Charlene Carter, Jan Hoskin-Hay, John Pipkin, and Tim Finkenbinder. Narrowing the field of 176 tough competitors surely wasn’t an easy task for […]