“The Paint Horse Championships are APHA’s way of encouraging the grassroots exhibitor and rewarding our Paint Horse exhibitors and horses who might not participate at the world level or have not had success at the World Shows.”

Additions to the rulebook for this year include new classes, fewer requirements for show approval, and amended registration rules.

Back by popular demand, the Midwest Horse Fair will feature two nights of Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) sanctioned Rodeo at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI on April 15 & 16, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Keeping inline with the 2016 theme, “The Sky’s the Limit”, each show will be a thrilling spectacle of great family entertainment packed into the 8,000 seat Coliseum.

Taking place Feb. 26-28, 2016, at the National Equestrian Center in Lake St. Louis, Missouri, the event will have professional clinics and demonstrations of numerous riding disciplines, an entertaining colt starting competition, 4-H and FFA horse judging, riding lesson trials, Equine Industry Alliance roundtable discussion and shopping.