AQHA Pleasure Versatility Challenge Returns to the 2024 AQHA World Championship Show
2023 Pleasure Versatility Challenge Champion Queen Ov Hearts and AQHA Professional Horseman Gil Galyean. Photo by Shane Rux Photography, courtesy of AQHA.
From AQHA:
For a seventh consecutive year, you are invited to PRIME TIME at 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 16, to witness some of the most talented 3-year-old American Quarter Horses demonstrate their versatility at the AQHA Pleasure Versatility Challenge, held during the 2024 Nutrena AQHA and Adequan® Select World Championship Shows in Oklahoma City. Total purse for the event is anticipated to be $50,000, plus prizes again in 2024. New this year, viewers – both in person and watching via the livetream – will be able to vote for their favorite horses as the competition commences. The AQHA Fan Favorite horse will be announced during the awards ceremony at the conclusion of the event.
Horses competing during the AQHA Pleasure Versatility Challenge are shown sequentially in three classes in the Jim Norick Arena: a pattern class consisting of a blending of simplified trail and western riding maneuvers, which counts 40 percent and is sponsored by Cimarron Trailers; a western pleasure class, which counts 40 percent and is sponsored by The Equine Chronicle; and a conformation class, which counts 20 percent and is sponsored by the World Conformation Horse Association. Blue Ribbon Custom Tack is providing silver show equipment for the winners and, as a special incentive, will be giving away a custom work saddle to the contestant that finishes in 11th place.
All rules and eligibility remain the same in 2024 as they were for the 2023 event. Horses cannot have been shown astride in any western riding, trail or in any similar Pleasure Versatility Challenge event prior to the Nutrena AQHA and Adequan® Select World official entry deadline of September 16. As of the official entry deadline of September 16 and thereafter, horses can be shown without restriction at any competition (including the All American Quarter Horse Congress) without forfeiting PVC eligibility. There are no eligibility restrictions for the western pleasure or conformation classes. No money earned at the PVC accrues against AQHA leveling eligibilities.
View more detailed Pleasure Versatility Challenge information.
View all the valued sponsors of the 2024 Pleasure Versatility Challenge.
Visit www.aqha.com/worldshow for additional information on the Pleasure Versatility Challenge as the event nears.
About SUPER SIRES
Title Sponsor SUPER SIRES returns for a third 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.
