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Published 09/02/2010 - 9:59 a.m. CDT

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We have candids and we make it easy to find everything you need for the Select World. Photo © The American Quarter Horse Journal.
The 2010 Adequan Select World Championship Show starts August 29 and continues through September 4 at the Amarillo National Center in Amarillo, Texas. The Adequan Select World Show is the world’s largest, single-breed horse show open exclusively to amateur exhibitors age 50 and older.  GoHorseShow.com makes it easy to find everything you need for the Select World Show.


Rating: 11
 
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Published 09/02/2010 - 7:21 a.m. CDT

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Maggie has been busy! She won the 3 Year Old Mares with MTK Rules and has made the finals in Showmanship and Horsemanship with GPF Legal Version. Photo © The American Quarter Horse Journal.
Greetings from the 2010 Adequan Select World show live from Amarillo. Your trusted blogger Maggie Bellville here and I hope to bring you a taste of the show this week with my blogs.


Published 08/25/2010 - 11:50 p.m. CDT

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"He was a huge part of our family," says Emily Ross, who won the Congress and a World Champion with him. "He brought our family together. He touched our lives and a lot of people before me."
One of the great war horses, Seven S Majestic (Juice), passed away earlier this week at the age of 24. He was spending his retirement days at the Ross Family Farm located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Courtney, Emily, Will, and Alex Ross have amazing memories of this beautiful black gelding, and the family will be forever linked through their love of this incredible animal.


 
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Published 08/12/2010 - 8:44 a.m. CDT

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Scoop was one of the leading figures in American Quarter Horse racing. A former AQHA president, he was the owner of Vessels Stallion Farm at Bonsall, California, which stands all-time leading sire First Down Dash.
Frank "Scoop" Vessels III was killed in a plane crash August 11. Vessels, whose family founded the Los Alamitos Race Course, died in a plane crash Wednesday morning in eastern Oregon, Harney County (Oregon) sheriffs announced.


Published 08/07/2010 - 8:52 a.m. CDT

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Carey's trainer Brad Jewett explained, “What I’ve told her tonight is just show who you are and what you’re all about to the best of your ability and be confident about it.”
Carey Nowacek of San Antonio, Texas, is a breath of fresh air. Respected and loved by many, she's a hard worker who always has a smile on her face and a positive attitude. You can't help but cheer for her in and out of the show pen. Carey allowed GoHorseShow.com to follow her behind the scenes as she prepared for, and showed in, the Horsemanship finals at the AQHYA World Championship show.


Rating: 12
 
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AQHA
Published 08/06/2010 - 9:29 p.m. CDT

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Darcy Reeve (left) and Ali Papendick await the judges' final placings in western riding. It is the last year of youth competition for both riders. Photo © American Quarter Horse Journal

Just look through the finals list of almost any class at the 2010 Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show, and you’ll see familiar names of youth who’ve been competing successfully for a long time.  And for a surprising number of them, this is their last year to compete as youth; they’re moving on up to amateur.



Published 08/06/2010 - 1:45 p.m. CDT

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Jessie Hadlock is no stranger to the Showmanship finals. For the past three years she had made the elite list with her long-time partner, Zipped N Bar Teddy. This year she would compete with Structurally Correct.
There were over 170 exhibitors entered in Monday’s AQHYA World Show Showmanship Preliminaries, and the judges had the unenviable job of picking the top fifteen they wanted to see again in the finals. Nineteen-year-old Jessie Hadlock of Goodlettsville, Tennessee was one of the exhibitors selected to return to the finals the following morning. Jessie let GoHorseShow follow her as she prepared for, and showed in, the finals in Oklahoma City.


Rating: 12
 
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Published 08/05/2010 - 9:42 p.m. CDT

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Parris Rice and Javah Mon defend their world championship title in hunt seat equitation. Photo © The American Quarter Horse Journal
When Parris Rice and Javah Mon entered the Jim Norick Coliseum at the 2010 Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show for hunt seat equitation, there were no tracks in the dirt. They were the first to go in the 15-rider final competition. Parris focused on how she had trained and set a smooth, flowing line for others to follow. Meanwhile, Jamie Sutton of the United Kingdom was warming up Slightly Overdressed, her 2002 sorrel gelding. Working 11th in the draw, she also set a smooth, clean pattern. The two patterns were so similar that Parris and Jamie tied.

Published 08/05/2010 - 9:33 p.m. CDT

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Ali Papendick and Must Be A Detail took the gold in hunter under saddle at the 2010 Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show. Photo © The American Quarter Horse Journal.
Must Be A Detail, aka "Stewie," has been a big part of the Papendick family since 2006; that year Kristina Papendick won the youth hunter under saddle world championship. Kristina's younger sister, Ali, won the title in 2009, and was hoping to make the finals again in 2010. She did. "I had no idea how I'd do, I just wanted to go in there and have a good ride," Ali said. "The competition was really deep." But at the very end, Ali and Stewie were last in the pen and rode out with a gold trophy. "It was a good ending to my youth career," she said. The coming sophomore at Texas Christian University plans to show as an amateur, as long as her studies allow.