New for 2019

Congress Super Sale 2 Year Old Open Hunter Under Saddle Stakes
Congress Cutting Champions Challenge 
4 & 5 Year Old Open Ranch Riding Stakes, Presented by CarbonKlean
Super Sires classes added to the following (visit supersires.org for entry information):

– 2 Year Old Maiden Open Western Pleasure Futurity, Presented by Coughlin Automotive

– 4 & 5 Year Old Non Pro Trail Stakes

– Non Pro Hunter Yearling Longe Line Stakes

The main event, the Run for a Million Invitational, featured nine of the reining world’s most successful professionals and three wild-card participants vying for a $500,000 prize. Andrea Fappani, Casey Deary, Shawn Flarida, Jordan Larson, Franco Bertolani, Jason Vanlandingham, Craig Schmersal, Tom McCutcheon and Duane Latimer were the event’s invitational riders, with Abby Lengel, Cade McCutcheon and Matt Mills as the wild card exhibitors. Even though the Run for a Million has already taken place, the results will not be released until a later date on “The Last Cowboy.”

You’ve waited patiently for this event, so don’t miss your opportunity to compete at the AQHA West Level 1 Championships, September 25-29 at the South Point Arena & Equestrian Center in Las Vegas. Entries are due August 30.

The following are the new AQHA-approved all-around judges:
– Clint Ainsworth, Lithonia, Georgia
– Jimmy Daurio, Pueblo, Colorado
– Jamie Dowdy, Marshfield, Missouri
– Eric Hubbard, Fresno, California
– Valerie Kearns, Grayslake, Illinois 

2019 STALL RESERVATIONS AND FEES Earliest Arrival: 7 am on Monday Sept. 16 Latest Departure: 6 AM on Monday Sept. 23 Stall Fee is $195 All stalls must be reserved and paid for online through EZHorseshows.com If you have any questions or problems using the online stall reservation system, please call Doug Hammack at 303-601-0623 $15 processing fee for all […]

Assist with all aspects of planning and executing events associated with the Color Breed Congress horse show. Duties include, but not limited to organizing and distributing all awards on a daily basis, assisting with CBC Trade Show, helping with the CBC Cookout and some arena duties as needed.

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.

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.

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.