2023 Pleasure Versatility Challenge
2022 Pleasure Versatility Challenge Champion, RV NOT FOR HIRE, owned by Evon Werner of Paradise Valley, Arizona, exhibited by Blake Weis of Pilot Point, Texas and bred by Richard and Betty Jo Carr of Bremen, Indiana.
Join us for PRIME TIME for the sixth consecutive year at 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 11, when some of the most talented 3-year-old American Quarter Horses demonstrate their versatility at the Pleasure Versatility Challenge. The event will be held in conjunction with the 2023 Farnam AQHA World Championship Show at the OKC Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City. Total purse is projected to be $50,000 in cash and additional prizes!
Horses competing during the Pleasure Versatility Challenge are shown sequentially in three classes in the Jim Norick Arena: a pattern class, sponsored by Cimarron Trailers, consisting of a NEWLY APPROVED PATTERN FOR 2023 that blends simplified trail and western riding maneuvers, which counts 40 percent; a western pleasure class, sponsored by The Equine Chronicle, which counts 40 percent; and a conformation class, sponsored by the World Conformation Horse Association, which counts 20 percent.
Horses cannot have been shown astride in any western riding, trail or in any similar Pleasure Versatility Challenge event prior to the Farnam AQHA World Championship Show official entry deadline of September 15. As of the official entry deadline of September 15 and thereafter, horses may be shown without restriction at any competition without forfeiting Pleasure Versatility Challenge eligibility. There remains no eligibility restrictions for the western pleasure or conformation classes. Sires of competition horses are not limited to only Super Sires – all are welcome!
Send a request to: AQHAPVC@gmail.com for specific questions regarding the event, entry details or to have your name and email added to the information distribution list.
View more detailed Pleasure Versatility Challenge information and the pattern at www.aqha.com/pleasure-versatility-challenge.
Click here to view all the valued sponsors of the 2023 Pleasure Versatility Challenge.
About SUPER SIRES
Title Sponsor SUPER SIRES returns for a second year. SUPER SIRES was started by horsemen and horsewomen with intentions of creating a platform that would give back to the foundation of the “show horse” industry, the breeders and the owners of show horses. Led by an innovative executive committee, they encourage owners of pleasure and all-around show mare bloodlines to breed to quality stallions of kind in which the resulting foals would be eligible for large purses beginning as a yearling and continuing throughout their show career. SUPER SIRES’ mission is to conduct their events at top venues throughout the country. By end of 2023, SUPER SIRES will have awarded over $1 million in cash and prizes to non-pros, limited and open riders in western and English pleasure events, as well as the all-around horse, which includes western riding, trail and horsemanship. SUPER SIRES’ goal is to continue expanding their stallion enrollments as well as the offspring of the spectacular “show horse” bloodlines that positively affect AQHA as well as the entire equine industry. SUPER SIRES is a perfect fit for our Pleasure Versatility Challenge event now and in the future.
Visit www.aqha.com/worldshow for additional information on the Pleasure Versatility Challenge as the event nears.
