Trainer Profile: The Evolution Of Maestas Show Horses

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428 – September/October, 2023

By Brittany Vermeer

For the past 23 years, Maestas Show Horses has been a force in the Paint Horse and Appaloosa breeds, consistently producing impeccably turned out horse and rider teams that have achieved considerable success. Recently, MSH has gone through a reinvention of sorts as partners Arturo Maestas and Jesse Jones made the decision to switch over to the Quarter Horse world.

While it might seem like a huge departure from their focus for the past two decades, they’re really just returning to their roots. Maestas competed on the Hunter/Jumper circuit as a child and later moved into AQHA competition. It wasn’t until later in his career that he focused on to the APHA and ApHC breeds.

Maestas started MSH in 2000 and soon after won his first World Championship–in 2003–at the ApHC World Show in Junior Trail aboard A Big Spender. That same year, he moved from California to Texas. The Lone Star State has been his home ever since.

“I grew up competing in AQHA and, when I went out as a trainer, I started in Paints and Appaloosas,” he says. “Those breeds have been a big part of our lives for a long time and we still love them. That’s how I met Jesse.”

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428 – September/October, 2023