A Weekend at the All American Quarter Horse Congress
By EllaMae Reiff , DTN Content Editor Copyright (2024) DTN, LLC. Used with permission. COLUMBUS, Ohio (DTN) — There’s nothing quite like the crisp fall air mixed with the unmistakable excitement of the All American Quarter Horse Congress. Held in Columbus, Ohio, this event is the largest single-breed horse show in the world, and this […]
EC Blog – Sometimes the Billet Breaks
August 28, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – Sometimes the Billet Breaks
Sometimes the billet breaks. It was her first rodeo. And the billet broke, the saddle came off, and she bit the dust. Literally. When your ten year old dreams about racing barrels in a real rodeo, you don’t tell her she can’t enter the hometown roundup when it rolls around. You might know without a […]
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By EC Writer Elizabeth Arnold: When was the last time you rode your horse just for the pure joy and thrill of it? No goal to accomplish, no problem to fix, no skill to master. Just you and your horse under the sky and on top of the ground. We talk so often […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – Proud Owners of the Paul Horn Numbered 1 Bronze
August 20, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – Proud Owners of the Paul Horn Numbered 1 Bronze
An EC Blog by Shannon Rafacz: Do you remember the first show you went to, and you looked at all of the prizes and awards that you “might” win? A saddle maybe? Maybe a belt buckle? Well, for me, I was 12 and it was a trophy. I was at the NRHA futurity and with […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – To The Horse Who Came Next
July 10, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – To The Horse Who Came Next
By Julia S. Adams, Goldun Custom Creations “To the horse who came next: You enter a freshly bedded, ready-made stall with all the fixings, not knowing it still bears the name plate of the horse that lived there before you. You wear hand-me-down halters, fly masks, blankets, and items with writing on them that that horse […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – Grateful To Be Part of This World
July 7, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – Grateful To Be Part of This World
This weekend, Lindsey McCracken of Houston, Texas, learned she and her horse, Its Hubbout Time, earned the 2024 APHA World Show Reserve All-Around Amateur Solid Paint-Bred title! The DIY Amateur and her mom, Anne McCracken, had taken the 2016 buckskin solid gelding by Hubba Hubba Huntin and out of Pepsis Carmel Queen to the 2024 […]
Continue reading …An EC Blog by Kathleen Beckham – Inconvenienced
June 20, 2024 Comments Off on An EC Blog by Kathleen Beckham – Inconvenienced
By Kathleen Beckham of Ethos Equine: Years ago, I had a baby horse, and when he was about 18 months old, I had the opportunity to have an equine chiropractor work on him. He was wiggly and squirrelly, and I apologized to the chiropractor for that. “That’s okay,” she said, “Little babies haven’t learned how to […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – Finding a Silver Lining In the Clouds for Ayvah and Zippos Little Tuf
May 30, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – Finding a Silver Lining In the Clouds for Ayvah and Zippos Little Tuf
An EC Blog by Jenny Guetchidjian: “I would like to share Ayvah Guetchidjian with you all,” says Jenny Guetchidjian. “Ayvah is my stepdaughter and she is four years old, turning five next month. Yesterday was to be her very first horse show, a local open show. She was going to show Leadline through the Beaver […]
Continue reading …EC Blog – Litte Girl Horse Dreams Never Die
May 28, 2024 Comments Off on EC Blog – Litte Girl Horse Dreams Never Die
An EC blog by Joan Ames Little girl horse dreams never die. She never stops looking for the pretty horse. The talented horse. The one that will take her to the winner’s circle. But there is a lot that gets in her way. School. Job. Relationship. Marriage. Children. Just life in general. She puts it […]
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From the AQHA Blog: By Suzanne Couch I have been showing over 35 years with AQHA and other shows. Over my 35-plus years of showing, I have seen tons of horse show dogs, but only three horse show cats and one of them was mine. May of 2008, I acquired a kitten from a local farmer. The kitten was […]
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