It was a scene straight out of the silver screen this evening when Lori Bucholz and Good Lukin Lark park-gaited to their first World Championship together as a team in Amateur Pleasure Driving at the AQHA World Championship Show.
Continue reading …Originally purchased for her breeding potential, and as a gentle show horse for his 12-year-old son Christopher, Trahan never imagined the mare would go on to win an Amateur World Champion title.
Continue reading …“It’s kind of a lifetime culmination of dreams and working hard for my whole family, because we’ve been raising horses for 65 years. It’s exciting.”
Continue reading …For Thomas, this incredible level of success is simply overwhelming. “The World title with Entrigue, the weanling filly, was my very first World Championship,” he says. “I couldn’t talk; I was so overwhelmed. Then, [the win with] Hes That Cool was my second World Championship.”
Continue reading …“She reminds me a lot of Lucy, just with her head and neck and her front leg,” Ost says. “Also, she’s very easy to show. Lucy’s had some other really nice babies, but this one probably reminds me the most of her.”
Continue reading …For Candace Jussen of Pilot Point, Texas, this was her first time winning an APHA World Champion title and her first time competing at the APHA World Show in Western Pleasure. More often than not, you will find Jussen in the AQHA Halter pen, but recently she’s been broadening her horizons to include other disciplines.
Continue reading …“I think it’s so popular, because it’s kind of back to the basics,” she says. “It’s all about a horse moving naturally. Most anybody can do it, because there are real easy, basic maneuvers.”
Continue reading …Russ Kimbrell and his 6-year-old mare, My Legs R Sensational, have won a Western Pleasure World Champion title in the past, in 2010 to be specific. However, the pair just recently reunited two weeks ago when he purchased “Megan” back from the family he had originally sold her to.
Continue reading …All John Simonites unite! The beautiful 8-year-old bay tobiano stallion has done it again loping into the winner’s circle with owner Erin Bradshaw in the saddle. This afternoon, John Simon was crowned the World Champion in the Classic Amateur Senior Western Pleasure.
Continue reading …The first World Champion crowned this afternoon was Andrea Kengis-Foss with Fleetastic, a horse bred by her father, Dr. Janis Kengis, and by the family’s stallion Fleet Machine. In an interesting turn of events, the Reserve Champion horse was also bred by the Kengis family, In Victory Lane, that was piloted by Heidi Kokemiller.
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