The challenges are team events pairing amateur and pro riders, often from across barns, in a fun, supportive environment. They are judged following AQHA rules and standards, but have a structure that takes incentive and payback elements from Team Roping and Barrel Racing. There is 100% payback, along with added money, and a guarantee of $1,000 to the winning team.

Thomas and Mimsi Roe Coon of Pilot Point, Texas, were named the 2016 Oklahoma City Convention &Visitors Bureau Leading Owner. The Coons’ American Quarter Horses earned a total of 117 points by competing in 17 classes. Their top honors include the world championship titles in weanling fillies and amateur 3-year-old geldings, and the reserve championship titles in amateur weanling stallions, amateur 2-year-old mares and amateur weanling fillies.

Winning Aged Mares was Ross Roark with Alluring Intention for Steve and Kathy Headley. This sorrel mare is by My Intention and out of The Coolsified Girl, by Kid Coolsified. The Reserve Champion was Andy Staton with PF Supreme Surprise. Third was Steve Ferguson with Best Dawn Yet.

“This has been a goal of mine as long as I can remember.”

Today, Courtney Brockmueller shared the saddle with her almost three-year-old son, Brim, aboard Boys Move Over, for the cutest victory lap we’ve ever seen, this afternoon at the AQHA World Championship Show. But this isn’t the first victory lap for Brim. The last time Courtney won Amateur Hunter Under Saddle was in 2013 with a horse named Allocate In Blue. At that time, she was pregnant with Brim and due in only a couple of months.

Tim Finkenbinder was on quite a roll this morning winning Yearling Geldings with the double-registered AQHA/APHA gelding, Grandioso, for Phil and Sue Drawdy. Then, he won 3-Year-Old Mares with Equities and was the Reserve Champion in 2-Year-Old Mares with Shangri La, both for Dave Williams.