We have another fabulous birthday to celebrate, this time to Pour Me Sum Tequila, who turned 16 at the past weekend’s Oregon Quarter Horse Association’s Sweetheart Classic in Eugene, Oregon! Thank you and congrats to owner Tarin Brascher! If you have a great photo of the day, please send it by email: Delores.Kuhlwein@EquineChronicle.com.
Continue reading …EC Blog by Cecily Clark and Matt Brown of East West Training Stables in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania To all the students we’ve loved before (past and present), There’s a lot we’ve worked on together over the years, and many lessons we hope you’ve learned as our students. Many technical, many philosophical, and many that […]
Continue reading …First up for today’s Transformation Tuesday is Rose Amala in 2016 with her first ride, “Jack.” Remember Rose and Jack from The Titanic movie? The second photo shows Rose with Pawn Star at the 2023 L1 West AQHA Championship with her family and her trainers, Mike and May Edwards. Thank you to Tamara […]
Continue reading …The Kansas Quarter Horse Association Prairie Classic, February 7-11, 2024, just wrapped up at State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. It’s one of the Top 10 AQHA Circuits in the U.S. The show’s judges were Dolly Chayer, Jimmy Daurio, Jessica Gilliam, T.W. Grose, Jake Hartman, Pete Kyle, Jonathan Meilleur, Judd Paul, and Jason Smith. Other highlights: Six […]
Continue reading …By Jessica Hein, PHJ News Sixteen longstanding judges are recognized below for reaching milestone APHA Judge Tenure Awards in 2023. The APHA Judges Tenure Award honors longtime officials who have served APHA for decades as an approved APHA judge; specially designed tenure rings and pendants are available. “This award symbolizes the many hours each judge […]
Continue reading …This is “Caan And Company One” but lovingly known as Ace, who is turning 30 today, February 12th! “He was shown in the all-around for years before retiring to a therapeutic riding program and then eventually finding his forever home with Alexis Knoles,” explains Mallory Dehaes. “He still enjoys trail rides and playing in his […]
Continue reading …From AQHA: The American Quarter Horse Youth Association has launched a new tool that will help families discover what programs best fit their needs and interests. The Find Your Program tool is a short and simple questionnaire that guides people to programs they are eligible for or could be interested in, depending on their answer to each […]
Continue reading …By Delores Kuhlwein Growing up in California, Crysta Brown was bitten by the horse bug at an early age. Like many who find their families can’t support their horse habit, she began cleaning stalls to pay for her lessons as a teen, and that eventually led to her first assistant trainer gig. “My mom was […]
Continue reading …Pictured is Laurie Hoopes from Vermilion, Ohio, with her horse, Simply Presidential, and Charlie Cole at the 2023 AQHA World Championship Show when Charlie was Pleasure Driving World Champion for the 11th time. In addition, “Abe” won the triple crown in 2023, winning an NSBA World and Reserve World Championhip, a Congress Championship, and the AQHA […]
Continue reading …The Kansas Quarter Horse Association Prairie Classic is underway February 7-11, 2024, at State Fair Park, Oklahoma City, OK. It’s one of the Top 10 AQHA Circuits in the U.S., and we have an ever-growing set of G-Man style candid photos from the Pipkin Family and Maestas Show Horses, plus some pics from the Galyeans! The […]
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