Around the Rings – VQHA Virginia National Stock Show
May 30, 2023 Comments Off on Around the Rings – VQHA Virginia National Stock Show
The 2023 VQHA Virginia National Stock Horse Show was held at Meadow Event Park in Doswell, VA, May 19-21. An All Novice Show and a VRH Special Event were both held Friday, May 19th, with a Split/Combined Schedule on Saturday & Sunday May 20-21. Judges were: Robbie Haskins, DVM (Novice Show) John Tuckey (VRH Special Event) […]
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EC Blog – Unknown author. Today is the most expensive holiday on the calendar. Every hot dog, every burger, every spin around the lake, or drink with friends and family…is a debt…purchased by others. This is not about who has served – that day comes in the fall. This one is in honor of those […]
Continue reading …Changing The Face Of Hunt Seat Fashion: Boo Yah Custom Clothing
May 28, 2023 Comments Off on Changing The Face Of Hunt Seat Fashion: Boo Yah Custom Clothing
Most great businesses are born by savvy entrepreneurs who seek to fulfill a need that isn’t currently being met.That’s exactly how Boo Yah Custom Clothing came to be.
Continue reading …More Around the Rings at The Premier – with the G-Man!
May 27, 2023 Comments Off on More Around the Rings at The Premier – with the G-Man!
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Around the Rings at The Premier – with the G-Man!
May 26, 2023 Comments Off on Around the Rings at The Premier – with the G-Man!
The G-Man has arrived at The Premier at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky! Thank you to Premier Sires for the invitation to come to share in everyone’s successes! See the first gallery of over 100 photos from Thursday and Friday below:
Continue reading …A Reason To Celebrate: Working Western Rail
May 26, 2023 Comments Off on A Reason To Celebrate: Working Western Rail
When the innovative class, Working Western Rail, was added to the 2020 AQHA World Show as an exhibition class, people took note. The class offered prizes to the top ten, horses were required to be 3 years or older, and they also had to compete in an Open or Amateur Ranch Riding class. By adding the exhibition class, the AQHA was responding to a years-long effort to add a class to further showcase the versatility, rideability and natural movement of the Quarter Horse.
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By EC Intern Tierney Horton “Every day on the right side of the grass is a good day.” These are the words that Jamee Golan-Bornstein lives by as she’s faced many challenges in her life. Jamee is known for her many successes as a breeder through the Quarter Horse industry, producing many world champions and […]
Continue reading …Longtime APHA Leader David Dellin Tapped as Interim Executive Director
May 25, 2023 Comments Off on Longtime APHA Leader David Dellin Tapped as Interim Executive Director
By Jessica Hein, PHJ News David Dellin will lead APHA as the association’s interim executive director, effective in June 2023. Current APHA Executive Director Billy Smith has accepted the commissioner position for the National Reining Horse Association. “I cannot describe the appreciation I have for what my friend and mentor Billy Smith has done for […]
Continue reading …Around the Rings – 2023 Mason Dixon Color Classic
May 24, 2023 Comments Off on Around the Rings – 2023 Mason Dixon Color Classic
The 2023 Mason Dixon Color Classic, sponsored by the Pennsylvania and Delmarva Paint Horse Clubs, took place May 12-14, 2023, at Keystone Horse Center, in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Judges were John Anderson (CO), Sally Puzacke (OH), Amy Watkins (OH), Rhonda Replogle (FL), Pam Scott (FL), and John Briggs (TX). The show manager was Lyn Fick. The […]
Continue reading …All Time Fancy: The Loss of a Legacy
May 24, 2023 Comments Off on All Time Fancy: The Loss of a Legacy
If there was ever such a thing as a gentle giant, it was undoubtedly Peggy Knaus’s 1998 Bay Overo Stallion All Time Fancy, who she called Nike. The stallion by CF Wicked Willie and out of Forced to Be Fancy–with his beautiful long trot and the personality of a puppy–earned his heavenly wings on October 19, 2022, leaving behind a legacy as handsome as he was; he changed the APHA industry, the expectation of how Hunter Under Saddle stock horses could move, and the lives of many who have been blessed to know him and his offspring, especially the lives of the Knaus family.
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