Beginning December 2014, American Quarter Horse Association all-around judges will be required to take a recertification test. The recertification process will comprise a test over the AQHA Official Handbook of Rules and Regulations and video testing on five core classes: western riding, trail, reining, horsemanship and hunt seat equitation.

According to CNN News, more than 500 people are still unaccounted for in devastating flash floods that hit areas of Colorado over the weekend including Boulder, Greeley, and Denver

One of the horse farms hardest hit in this area belongs to AQHA horse trainers, Tom and Leslie Lange, of Greeley, Colorado. Because of their farm’s close proximity to a large river, which is nearly 14 feet over its normal level, an immediate evacuation was necessary.