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2024 NSBA World Championship Show Comes To A Close

August 20, 2024 Comments Off

From NSBA: The NSBA World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity closed its ten-day run at the Built Ford Tough Livestock Complex at Expo Square in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Sunday, August 18. The show attracted nearly 8,000 total entries and crowned 198 world champions as well as 57 Breeders Championship Futurity champions. The 2024 NSBA […]

Entries Are Open for the 2024 AQHA World and Select World Championship Shows

August 20, 2024 Comments Off

From AQHA: Entries are 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 for the 2024 Nutrena AQHA and Adequan® Select World Championship Shows! Get ready to celebrate with more than $4.3 million awarded in purse, prizes and exhibitor appreciation. The 50th anniversary of the show also means we’re partying like it’s 1974 and you won’t want to miss it! Find qualifier […]

EC Blog – Proud Owners of the Paul Horn Numbered 1 Bronze

August 20, 2024 Comments Off

An EC Blog by Shannon Rafacz: Do you remember the first show you went to, and you looked at all of the prizes and awards that you “might” win? A saddle maybe? Maybe a belt buckle? Well, for me, I was 12 and it was a trophy. I was at the NRHA futurity and with […]

EC Photo of the Day – Some Sage Advice From My Mentor

August 20, 2024 Comments Off

“If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.”– J Loren Norris. This is Bill Page with his trainer, Mike Tivoli of Mike Tivoli Quarter Horses, at his first AQHA horse show. “Mike was helping me not only get ready by tying my scarf, but reminding me not to worry about […]

More Around the Rings – 2024 NSBA World Championship Show

August 19, 2024 Comments Off

Keep scrolling for candids from the NSBA World Show!

AQHYA World All-Arounds Crowned

August 19, 2024 Comments Off

From AQHA: This year’s AQHYA World Show was held August 2-11 at the OKC Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City. Showing a 5 percent increase in entries over last year, the show hosted 5,200 entries and 563 exhibitors, including 220 youth who attended for the first time. In addition to show entries, 225 AQHYA members also competed in […]

EC Photo of the Day – The Love Of Our Life

August 19, 2024 Comments Off

“When I can’t ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and wheelbarrow. When I can’t hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze and watch them.” – Monica Dickens. If you have a great photo of […]

EC Photo of the Day -It Looks Good Enough To Eat

August 18, 2024 Comments Off

“This is 5 year old gelding, IMSUMKINDACERTAIN (Archie) looking to munch on his Green Western Pleasure buckle after winning it in New Jersey!” says Lucy Berghorst. Thank you to Lucy for the adorable photo! If you have a great photo of the day, please send it to us by email: Delores.Kuhlwein@EquineChronicle.com.

Paige Rogers and Ima Savvy Investment

August 17, 2024 Comments Off

Earlier in the week, Paige Rogers and Ima Savvy Investment won the CINCH Horsemanship Invitational at the NSBA World Championship Show, earning $3,000 with a $1,000 trainer bonus to Sara Simons. Saturday, they topped a class of 63 to win the Amateur Western Horsemanship! Paige says this is a class she’s worked really hard at […]

Snippity Snap and Weis Win Senior Western Riding at 2024 NSBA World Show

August 17, 2024 Comments Off

This week at the 2024 NSBA World Championship Show, we caught up to the very busy and talented Blake Weis after he won Senior Western Riding with Snippity Snap for Kent Ray Taylor, earning $1929.70. “Boo” is by VS Code Red and out of Snap Krackle Pop (by RL Best of Sudden). After their ride, Blake explains […]