Multiple Championship exhibitor Mackenzie Matthews comes by her love of horses naturally. The daughter of longtime AQHA exhibitors Robin Matthews and Terry Wilkerson, Mackenzie inherited her passion for horses and competition from her family. Her success as a Congress and Reserve Congress Champion, AQHYA Reserve L2 and Bronze L2 Champion, and multiple Top 10 exhibitor may be attributed to a combination of innate talent, strong work ethic, and loving family support.
Continue reading …When I first started showing in patterns, I thought that my maneuvers had to be perfect, and the rest of the pattern wasn’t too important. It didn’t matter if my circle was perfectly round or ended on the wrong angle, as long as it looked good and his lope was nice, right? Wrong!
Continue reading …Building on the popularity of Sun Circuit’s National Championship Tournaments last March, The AZ Fall Championship is debuting the Horsemanship West Bracket Tournament. Ranked horsemanship exhibitors from the 2019 National Championship summer rankings who are showing in the AQHA horsemanship at the Arizona Fall Championship will be eligible. The top 4 scores in Youth, Amateur and Select horsemanship after the first set of AQHA judges will advance to The Four where they will compete in a tournament style head to head competition. The champion in each division will win $500 and a trophy buckle. The reserve will win $250 and a logo’d chair. The summer rankings list will be out in late July.
Continue reading …A Top AQHA show year after year, the Big A & Stars N Stripes has done it again with an incredible turnout for the event that took place June 28th- July 7th in Conyers, GA. An Equine Production show management team reports a whopping 19,500 total entries with an 800 AQHA entry increase over 2018.
Continue reading …“I just wanted to have a clean ride [in the hunter hack],” said the 12-year-old equestrienne from Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada. “He’s very fun to jump. I didn’t jump before him; this is new to me. It’s fun and I trust him very much, so that makes it easier.”
Continue reading …Click here to check out the final set of images from around the rings at the 2019 APHA Youth World Show.
Continue reading …The Equine Chronicle has been very busy here in Fort Worth, Texas at the 2019 APHA Youth World Championship Show! Just in case you missed any of our coverage of the event, here are links to all the articles, video interviews, and hundreds of photos taken around the rings, all in one place for your viewing pleasure.
Continue reading …Kaitlyn describes Georgie is an easygoing guy, who throughly enjoys his job. “We’ve tried to teach him lead changes in the off season. He can do them, but he’s not very good at going fast, as you can tell in our little victory lap! That’s his happy speed, and he would like to stay there the whole time.”
Continue reading …Gillespie Show Horses barn mates, Carson Click and Kaitlyn Smith, have more in common than simply being from the same training barn. They are both first time attendees at the APHA Youth World Show. They also split the top two spots today in Novice Youth 14-18 Horsemanship. Carson rode Im First N Line to win, and Kaitlyn was Reserve with Seems Like Heaven.
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