APHA will also award high-point Paint Horse buckles at the Tulsa Reining Classic, High Roller Reining Classic and Southwest Reining Horse Association Futurity. To register your Regular Registry or Solid Paint-Bred horse today to be eligible for APHA’s awards and incentives, visit apha.com and click on “Register a Horse” at the top of the page.

Zips Chocolate Chip was a leading sire of award-winning western pleasure horses. The 1985 bay stallion was by Zippo Pine Bar and out of the Custus Jaguar mare Fancy Blue Chip. After a short career in the show ring, earning $18,000 in western pleasure futurities, Zips Chocolate Chip moved to the breeding barn. He was a sire of AQHA and National Snaffle Bit Association champions. He was a model for a Breyer horse. After his breeding career was over, he retired to owner-breeder Ann Myers’ farm. He was euthanized in 2015 due to complications of old age.

Also in the report, 2016-17 AQHA President Sandy Arledge explains the priorities she focused on in 2016. Those objectives included to continue the efforts made on behalf of animal welfare by AQHA Past President Dr. Glenn Blodgett; to focus on three interrelated areas of importance: communication, education and refining perception; and to reinvigorate the state, provincial and international affiliate programs.

The schedule and Judges’ List for the 2017 NSBA World Show and Show Your Colors is now online. The event will take place August 12-20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Judges for the show will be Rick Baker, Brenden Brown, Rick Christy, John Dean, Melissa Dukes, Jerry Erickson, Eric Hubbard, Brent Maxwell, Rob Meneely Eric Petersen, Nancy Renfro, […]