AQHA Executive Vice President Craig Huffhines joined AQHA President Stan Weaver, Committee Member Kenneth Banks, First Vice President Butch Wise, Second Vice President Norman Luba, and Committee Member Dr. Scott Myers during three days of meeting to review recommendations from the AQHA Convention. Those results will be released in the coming days.

The AQHA Central, running April 10-13, features walk-trot, Rookie and Level 1 classes; these three levels of AQHA co

APHA’s Paint Horse Championship program is back for 2019 and already approved for a few events this year—the first of which is the Northeast Paint Horse Championship Show taking place at the Mid-Atlantic Paint Classic Show held May 11-12 in Culpeper, Virginia. 

“APHA is dedicated to listening to our exhibitors and working to provide the best possible competition environment,” Senior Director of APHA Events Holly Slaughter said. “By shifting our cutting world championship events to the summer, we hope to make this prestigious event easier to attend for more exhibitors. The date change also allows us to provide top-quality footing while keeping exhibitor costs down, thanks to a partnership with the National Cutting Horse Association’s Summer Cutting Spectacular, which immediately follows our events.”

During the clinics, donations will be accepted from the audience for the AQHA Professional Horsemen’s Crisis Fund. The crisis fund helps professionals in times of need, arising from sudden and demonstrable hardship or disaster of a severe and unexpected nature or from serious physical illness. AQHA Professional Horsemen truly appreciate your generosity by donating to the crisis fund and look forward to seeing you at the Ride the Pattern clinics at this year’s show!

Currently, some users are experiencing errors when using the Find Your Level feature in AQHA Services. While AQHA works to resolve this issue, please call Customer Care at 806-376-4811 or fill out our contact form for information about your competition level. 

NSBA’s Stallion Incentive Fund has consistently paid the highest per point value for an incentive fund of its kind. Last year, each NSBA point paid $33.68 with the highest point earner receiving a check for over $6,000.

The second annual National Snaffle Bit Association Coaches Summit was held in Westlake, Texas March 25-27, 2019. Presented as a special project of the NSBA Foundation, the three-day workshop included instruction in the classroom and on-site at Bridlewood Equestrian Center, home of Stable Strides, LLC in Flower Mound, TX.

With this alliance, IEA and APHA will cross-promote across both organizations in a variety of methods and venues beginning in 2019 that will include benefits and discounts for both IEA and APHA members. APHA will also provide sponsorship of the “Most Valuable Paint Horse” award at both the 2019 IEA Hunt-Seat and Western National Finals.