Important Tracking Rule Change for all WCHA Events
From Don Falcon, WCHA Show Manager: Dear WCHA Futurity Participants, We are 3 weeks away from seeing you all in Fort Worth !!!!! Thank you for your participation and we’re going to do our very best to provide you a fun and profitable experience!!! I want to inform you of a NEW POLICY FOR TRACKING your […]
USDA Announces Sweeping Plans to Protect the United States from New World Screwworm
August 19, 2025 Comments Off on USDA Announces Sweeping Plans to Protect the United States from New World Screwworm
(Austin, TX, August 15, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today at the Texas State Capitol alongside Governor Greg Abbott and stakeholders from across the country announced the largest initiative yet in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) plan to combat the New World Screwworm (NWS). This announcement builds upon USDA’s five-pronged plan issued in […]
Continue reading …Appaloosa Horse Club Headquarters Sale Complete, Plans to Move to Oklahoma City
July 30, 2025 Comments Off on Appaloosa Horse Club Headquarters Sale Complete, Plans to Move to Oklahoma City
The Appaloosa Horse Club (Appaloosa.com) is on the move. The sale of the building the ApHC has called home since 1974 is final, and the horse club plans to move to Oklahoma City in the fall. The 20,000-plus square foot building and property near the Idaho-Washington border was purchased by a local manufacturing company earlier […]
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We are saddened to share the news of the passing of beloved exhibitor Darlene Louks, wife of Gary Louks, both of Rome, OH. Those in the horse industry will easily recognize their pride and joy, Quinlan, a double registered 7 Panel N/N stallion, who had a celebrated show career succeeded by his role as a […]
Continue reading …Secretary Rollins Takes Decisive Action and Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade
July 10, 2025 Comments Off on Secretary Rollins Takes Decisive Action and Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade
Secretary Rollins Takes Decisive Action and Shuts Down U.S. Southern Border Ports to Livestock Trade Due to Further Northward Spread of New World Screwworm in Mexico Washington, D.C., July 9, 2025—Yesterday, Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) reported a new case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Ixhuatlan de Madero, Veracruz […]
Continue reading …In Loving Memory of InTheSweetShop – 2007-2025
July 7, 2025 Comments Off on In Loving Memory of InTheSweetShop – 2007-2025
By Delores Kuhlwein The Caliendo family announced the passing of multiple World and Reserve World Champion InTheSweetShop, aka “Bentley,” Monday afternoon on social media. From Marylyn Caliendo, “Our hearts are absolutely broken with the passing of our all time GOAT, Inthesweetshop a.k.a Bentley. He was a multi champion in the pen, but more importantly a […]
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While NWS has been eradicated from the United States for decades, recent detections in Mexico as far north as Oaxaca and Veracruz, about 700 miles away from the U. S. border, led to the immediate suspension of live cattle, horse and bison imports through U. S. ports of entry along the southern border on May […]
Continue reading …EIA Outbreak Kills 21 Horses in Southwest US
June 17, 2025 Comments Off on EIA Outbreak Kills 21 Horses in Southwest US
A multistate outbreak of equine infectious anemia, likely spread through iatrogenic transmission, has resulted in the deaths of 21 horses in the past year. June 13, 2025, American Veterinary Medical Association News: A multistate outbreak of equine infectious anemia (EIA) has resulted in the deaths of nearly two dozen horses. A U.S. Department […]
Continue reading …World Equestrian Center – Ocala Announces Dover Saddlery Flagship Store at The Shoppes Off 80th
June 16, 2025 Comments Off on World Equestrian Center – Ocala Announces Dover Saddlery Flagship Store at The Shoppes Off 80th
World Equestrian Center – Ocala (WEC) is pleased to announce that Dover Saddlery will be opening a flagship store in the new luxury outdoor shopping venue, The Shoppes Off 80th in 2026. Situated adjacent to The Riding Academy Hotel and The Equestrian Manor, The Shoppes Off 80th will effectively double the property’s existing retail with […]
Continue reading …Masterson Farms, LLC Announces the Passing of RL Best of Sudden
June 2, 2025 Comments Off on Masterson Farms, LLC Announces the Passing of RL Best of Sudden
(June 2, 2025) Ken and Marilyn Masterson and everyone at the Farm are sad to announce the euthanasia of RL Best Of Sudden due to complications resulting from surgery for the removal of a strangulating lipoma. “BO” was a brown stallion foaled at Roberts Quarter Horses on January 7, 2002. He was sired by A […]
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