Congratulations to the following 20 horse and rider teams that will return for the Trail finals next week at the AQHYA World Show. This will also be your working order. Judges will be Buddy Fisher, Terry Cross, Jeff Allen, Will Knabenshue, and John Pipkin. The high score going into the finals was a 234.5, earned […]
Continue reading …14-year-old Natalie Vargo was the returning World Champion in Hunter Hack coming into the Youth World, but this year she had a brand new partner for the class. Last year, Natalie won with Art of The Deal. This year, she came out on top again with her new partner, a five-year-old gelding named Dancin In The Dirt, aka “Carter.”
Continue reading …Each year Paige and Executee have competed at the Youth World, they’ve won a trophy. They were Reserve in Yearling Mares, Third in Two-Year-Old Mares, and Reserve today in 3-Year-Old Mares. “She’s my trophy collector!” Paige jokes.
Continue reading …“Every time a judge came by, her ears went forward, her head went up, and she showed like a champ.”
Continue reading …Horse and rider pairs that compete in NRHA reining events run a pattern that is designed to show off the athletic ability of a ranch-type horse within a show arena. These patterns include both slow and fast circles, roll backs, spins, flying lead changes, and the crowd-favorite: sliding stops! Breyer’s NRHA 50th Anniversary model is appropriately shown executing this hallmark maneuver.
Continue reading …The first Olympic horses are settling into their athletes’ village – the newly built stables at the Olympic Equestrian Centre in Deodoro – with Team New Zealand’s Ringwood Skyboy winning the opening heat of the Rio 2016 Games as the first to set foot on Brazilian soil.
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