The Executive Committee approved a recommendation from the Western Dressage Task Force to adopt western dressage as an AQHA-recognized discipline in 2018. The Executive committee also approved the use of task forces to investigate the health of the hunter division, review of the show leveling system and the viability of a special-event rodeo held in conjunction with the Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show.

The Arizona Paint Horse Club is proud to present the Summer Celebration Show, May 14-15 at WestWorld in Scottsdale, Arizona. Judges for the show will be Rick McClain and Tina White.

In special recognition of those Non-Pro (Amateurs) who breed, own and show their Paints, the 2016 World Show will include three new WCHA Amateur Owner-Breeder-Exhibitor weanling halter classes. These are non-world championship classes, and 80 percent of exhibitors’ $500 entry fees will be jackpotted.

Exhibitors at the 2016 Nutrena East AQHA Level 1 Championships shined their boots and dusted off their hats for the first day of competition yesterday at the Gov. James B. Hunt Horse Complex in Raleigh, North Carolina. The show kicked off at 8 a.m. with Level 1 youth working hunter.

The American Quarter Horse Association is soliciting host-site bids for the 2016 Zoetis AQHA Versatility Ranch Horse and John Deere AQHA Cowboy Mounted Shooting World Championships, to be held in spring 2017. The inaugural Zoetis VRH World was held in 2008 in Denver, during the National Western Stock Show and then relocated in 2011 to Houston, during the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.

The APHA Executive Committee recently approved a motion that will allow solid Paint-bred horses with two Regular Registry parents the opportunity to compete in most non-world championship classes alongside their Regular Registry counterparts, based on feedback from the World Show Advisory Committee.

The event is scheduled for July 27-30, 2016 at the C Bar C Expo Center in Cloverdale, Indiana. The event is triple judged offering triple points and a one-day, four judge warmup show on July 26th, plus an IBHA approved triple judged show on July 25th.

From now on, the Breeders’ Trust will pay the owners’ share of earnings to the horse’s recorded owner as of December 31, so long as the horse has been enrolled or re-enrolled in the program following any transfers since January 1, 2015. The modification eliminates the “one free transfer” policy and no longer accounts for show leases.

Jeffrey Gibbs started Hesa Good Ride for owner Tracey Hoffman, and when it came time for a rider for the Premier Paint Sires Three Year Old Limited Horse Limited Rider Western Pleasure, Gibbs didn’t have to look very far – Colten Andrews lives just a mile or so away.