The 2016 SmartPak AQHA West Level 1 Championships will return to Las Vegas, April 20-24. The 2016 Nutrena AQHA East Level 1 Championships is slated for May 4-8 in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the newly added 2016 AQHA Central Level 1 Championships April 13-17 in Oklahoma City.
Continue reading …New for this year, we will have a Junior and Senior Stallion Division. We will once again be having four judges’ scores with the fourth judge being represented by the audience!
Continue reading …Unlike the normal process of in-vitro fertilization (which generally doesn’t work with horses), the ICSI process involves injecting a single sperm into an egg extracted from a mare. The embryo then develops in a lab for a week before being implanted in the mare.
Continue reading …Perhaps the most exciting news about this year’s competition is that Coughlin Automotive of Ohio will be presenting the 2015 Congress Queen with a two-year lease of a beautiful, black, 2016 Chevy Cruze!
Continue reading …Graffiti art and iconic imagery set the scene for a very exciting and unconventional horse show as did fun events like the new U.S. Open Arabians Native Costume Class, Land Rover Mini-Car Driving Experience for kiddos, and United States Pony Club Mounted Games.
Continue reading …Even with fifteen spots available for the cash winners it took a 224 to make money. Over 50% of the scores for the day were 220 or better. “It’s not only the best Reining I have ever seen, it might be the best one I’ve ever even heard of,” said one very tired rider coming out the gate.
Continue reading …The official 2015 All American Quarter Horse Congress patterns have now been posted online at http://www.horseshowpatterns.com/PPS/CONGRESS/2015/index.php. Visit HorseShowPatterns.com to download all the patterns so you can start practicing!
Continue reading …“You cannot expect to succeed in life without putting effort into everything you do; and when you get that blue ribbon, all that hard work is worth it in the end.”
Continue reading …Thanks to our friends Kelly McDowall, Brad Jewett, Dan Prouhet, and Steve Meadows for sharing some fun photos from the Level 1 Championships! We’d love to see your photos too. Email your photos and we’ll include them in the gallery.
Continue reading …Thanks to the North Carolina Quarter Horse Association, we have results to share from the 2015 Tar Heel Fall Classic, which took place recently at the James B. Hunt Horse Complex in Raleigh, North Carolina. Judges for the show were Murray Griggs, Clay MaCleod, Curtis Reynolds, Jennifer Thompson, and Clark Parker. TFC Futurity Results TFC Results 1 […]
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