The 2018 show, held September 19-23 in Scottsdale, Arizona, saw 7,603 AQHA class entries, which represent 17% growth over the previous year. Exhibitors from across the country flocked to WestWorld for the event that has established a reputation as the “Show For Everyone”with its quality competition and awesome awards.

To honor her, and the legacy she left, the Glover-Galyean Partnership has created the VSAG World Show Two-Year-Old Western Pleasure Incentive, slated to pay $25,000 to the highest placing VS Code Red or VS Flatline offspring at the 2019 AQHA World Championship Show in Two-Year-Old Western Pleasure.

Fort Worth, Texas, is a long way from Uddevalla, Sweden, but that did not stop Jeanette Svenneskog from making her third trek to the APHA World Show. In doing so, she became the first European exhibitor to take home the All-Around Amateur Solid Paint-Bred award. With wins in the Amateur Solid Paint-Bred Ranch Riding and the Amateur Solid Paint-Bred Western Horsemanship, the title was Jeanette’s for the taking.

36 interviews, 16 articles, and hundreds of photos later, and our EquineChronicle.com coverage of the 2018 APHA World Championship Show is a wrap! In case you missed any of the action on our website or The Equine Chronicle Facebook page, we’ve compiled everything in one place. 

“The preparation, figuring out how they tick and how to get them ready, is what I enjoy the most [about showing 2-year-olds,]” Wade said. “When they don’t show well, it’s not fun at all. But when they show like ‘Cowboy’ just did, it’s just the coolest feeling; it makes it all worth it.”

3-year-old “Crunch” is by Scenic Impulse and out of Megan East Hogan’s old show mare, Sensational Lollipop. Of Lollipop’s seven foals, there are two that have yet to hit the show pen, a weanling and yearling. All of the others have won World titles for the family.