With $3,000 added to the event, including 50% payback in each class, the Top 15 in each mounted shooting class will receive World Show awards and a complimentary video of their runs. The overall Clean Shooter Pot (based on APHA world championship classes) features 100% payback, and the fastest time in the pot receives a bonus prize. In addition to the world championship events, the two-stage match Paint Horse Open Shotgun Jackpot will have $500 added, too.  Certified ammunition will be provided to all entries.

APHA is excited to welcome Kelly Herd Jewelry to our stable of sponsors. Through their World Show sponsorship, Kelly Herd Jewelry will make victory that much sweeter for select exhibitors, providing a $500 gift certificate to the winners of six Breeders’ Trust Pleasure Stakes classes and five Platinum Breeders’ Futurity classes at the 2019 APHA Open/Amateur World Championship Show.

King Ranch, ‘The Birthplace of American Ranching,’ was founded in 1853 by Capt. Richard King, a steamboat captain who had come to Texas in 1846 during the Mexican/American War and had piloted steamboats up and down the Rio Grande for the U.S. Army. On a trip from Brownsville, Texas, to Corpus Christi, King spotted a small rise overlooking Santa Gertrudis Creek, on the Coastal Plains near Corpus Christi, and thought to himself that this would be an ideal location for a ranch. He had ridden more than 150 miles from Brownsville, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, across millions of acres of nothing but grass and a few live oak trees, and this was the first fresh water he had found. Capt. King soon began buying land in the area, the first parcel of which was the 15,500-acre Rincon de Santa Gertrudis. The next year, 1854, he purchased the larger 53,000-acre Spanish land grant Santa Gertrudis de la Garza. These two land grants became the nucleus of what is known today as King Ranch.

Saddles, trophies, buckles, cash, and so much more is on the line at the Arizona Fall Championship. PLUS, our Prize Patrol outdoes itself every year dreaming up more fun, challenging, surprising, and sometimes down-right whacky givaways.

Plan for 2019, because the 2019 Arizona Fall Championship Show is scheduled for September 18-22. Judges: Jessica Gilliam Brett Clark Will Knabenshue Leonard Berryhill Becky Schooler Chris Jones Bill Enk Chris Benedict Gary Reynolds Steve Brown Allen Mitchells Greg Hale Click here for more details.