Combined, the overall Top-10 AQHA shows saw entries totaling 93,992 in 2018. Rankings were calculated by dividing the total number of entries for each event by the event’s total number of show numbers.           

Zippos Tiger Bar saw winning performances with Troy Compton, Ann Admonius, Joetta Bell, T. Joe Jeane, and Aubrey Alderman. Eighteen years after the gelding won the Tom Powers Futurity in Berrien Springs, he took Aubrey Alderman to the winner’s circle in Walk Trot Western Pleasure at the same show, earning enthusiastic praise from the audience. Zippos Tiger Bar completed his show career in 2014 with Aubrey by placing 12th in Youth Hunt Seat Equitation at the AQHYA World Championship Show, when he was 25. He lived his final years of retirement at Beloit, Wisconsin with his final owner, Jim McKillips.

“AQHA’s annual report dives into the Association’s functions, goals and how we operate as a business dedicated to serving our members in the best way possible,” said AQHA Executive Vice President Craig Huffhines. “I encourage all AQHA members to read through the report for a statistical look at our Association.”

Shadmot is the first international AQHA member to receive the Merle Wood Humanitarian Award. She is a retired teacher who has a background in agriculture and runs her family’s pepper farm and spirulina operation in Israel. American Quarter Horses are the backbone of her passion and quest to connect young people throughout Israel with the power of the horse and its ability to inspire. She organized the Israel Quarter Horse Association as an AQHA affiliate in 2002, with the initial goal to give youth riders the opportunity to show and be recognized on a local as well as international level.