With $3,000 added to the event, including 50% payback in each class, the Top 15 in each mounted shooting class will receive World Show awards and a complimentary video of their runs. The overall Clean Shooter Pot (based on APHA world championship classes) features 100% payback, and the fastest time in the pot receives a bonus prize. In addition to the world championship events, the two-stage match Paint Horse Open Shotgun Jackpot will have $500 added, too. Certified ammunition will be provided to all entries.
Continue reading …APHA is excited to welcome Kelly Herd Jewelry to our stable of sponsors. Through their World Show sponsorship, Kelly Herd Jewelry will make victory that much sweeter for select exhibitors, providing a $500 gift certificate to the winners of six Breeders’ Trust Pleasure Stakes classes and five Platinum Breeders’ Futurity classes at the 2019 APHA Open/Amateur World Championship Show.
Continue reading …King Ranch, ‘The Birthplace of American Ranching,’ was founded in 1853 by Capt. Richard King, a steamboat captain who had come to Texas in 1846 during the Mexican/American War and had piloted steamboats up and down the Rio Grande for the U.S. Army. On a trip from Brownsville, Texas, to Corpus Christi, King spotted a small rise overlooking Santa Gertrudis Creek, on the Coastal Plains near Corpus Christi, and thought to himself that this would be an ideal location for a ranch. He had ridden more than 150 miles from Brownsville, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, across millions of acres of nothing but grass and a few live oak trees, and this was the first fresh water he had found. Capt. King soon began buying land in the area, the first parcel of which was the 15,500-acre Rincon de Santa Gertrudis. The next year, 1854, he purchased the larger 53,000-acre Spanish land grant Santa Gertrudis de la Garza. These two land grants became the nucleus of what is known today as King Ranch.
Continue reading …Saddles, trophies, buckles, cash, and so much more is on the line at the Arizona Fall Championship. PLUS, our Prize Patrol outdoes itself every year dreaming up more fun, challenging, surprising, and sometimes down-right whacky givaways.
Continue reading …It’s been a long two weeks at the AQHA Youth World and NSBA World Show, and The Equine Chronicle has been by your side through all of it. We’ve been honored to be there to capture all your incredible memories with photos, videos, articles, and interviews.
Continue reading …Click here for our final set of around the ring photos from the 2019 NSBA World Show.
Continue reading …Plan for 2019, because the 2019 Arizona Fall Championship Show is scheduled for September 18-22. Judges: Jessica Gilliam Brett Clark Will Knabenshue Leonard Berryhill Becky Schooler Chris Jones Bill Enk Chris Benedict Gary Reynolds Steve Brown Allen Mitchells Greg Hale Click here for more details.
Continue reading …Showmanship
AQHA Professional Horsewoman Tami McAllister
9 a.m., Monday, August 26
Watt Arena
Horsemanship
AQHA Professional Horseman Terry Cross
9:30 a.m., Monday, August 26
Watt Arena
Trail
AQHA Professional Horsewoman Patty Campbell
5 p.m., Tuesday, August 27
Outdoor Covered Arena
“The first time I’d ever even shown him was the first day here in the Select Hunter Under Saddle,” Kent says. “I’d only ridden him in the English saddle once at home. I came to the NSBA World last year with my Western horses, but this is my first year back with a Hunt Seat horse in 32 years.”
Continue reading …Another World Champion walk-trot competitor was Allie Rippeon with Famous N Foolish, aka “Calvin.” Allie and Calvin won Showmanship, Horsemanship, and Equitation at the NSBA World Show this year and this was their first time winning a World Championship title!
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