“I’m fortunate that he’s really careful with his legs,” Melissa says. “He was bending really well today, and he gets down and hunts the poles.”
Continue reading …Everyone is familiar with the motto, “There’s no ‘I’ in team.” Even athletes like superstar extraordinaire Michael Jordan knew he was a better player when he worked together with his team.
Continue reading …The main event capping off this evening at the 2015 APHA World Championship Show was the highly anticipated 3-Year-Old Novice Horse Limited Rider Western Pleasure Sweepstakes. After two tough splits and a finals, the judges determined the winner to be Dustin Eikenhorst aboard Only After Midnight.
Continue reading …“The thing I really like about this horse is that he will extend his jog, and it’s very comfortable to sit. We got to show that off going down the center of the pen to exit the pattern.”
Continue reading …“Spyder” has quite the track record in Hunter Under Saddle classes in both amateur and open divisions here at the APHA World Show. Every year he’s competed, he’s won a World Champion title. This year, he broke into the big leagues with his debut in the amateur senior division. “Now we’re onto senior, so he has to put his big boy pants on!” Jennifer jokes.
Continue reading …“I think this class is such a neat avenue to show what a person would pick when you look out in the pasture. It should be the horse you want to take home, and this is the horse I would want to take home out of a pasture of 100 babies.”
Continue reading …Following this morning’s win, Tucson now has racked up 17 career World Champion titles and 10 Reserve World Champion titles. He has also been named the Masters All-Around Champion here at the World Show four times.
Continue reading …Jim Chafin and Heather Graft have horses in their blood. Jim started out under the watchful eye of his parents, Jim and Sandy Chafin, owners of C Bar C Quarter Horses in Ohio. His success as a youth competitor included Top Five placings at the AQHA Youth World Show and national standings that gave him a solid foundation, responsibility, and work ethic that he parlayed into big wins as an adult at all of the major breed venues.
Continue reading …22-year-old Betsy Juette and her horse “Frankie” have been a team for one year this October. He was purchased as a three-year-old last year at the All American Quarter Horse Congress. This year at the Congress, Betsy and Frankie placed eighth in Amateur Hunter Under Saddle. This is her first World Championship title in either breed.
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