The World Conformation Horse Association (WCHA) Board of Directors election time is upon us! Would you like to help guide the direction of this important and growing association? If so, please read the following information and let us know if you'd like to join in the excitement!

The inaugural Jerry Wells Memorial Halter Horse Futurity will be held on Friday, June 5, 2009 as a special event at the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association’s annual Redbud Spectacular Horse Show. The Futurity is designed to promote the American Quarter Horse, the Conformation horse and, of course, to honor the legendary horseman Jerry Wells. Ten percent of entry fees will go into the annual scholarship program started by the Wells family in 2008 after Jerry’s death.

The March To The Arch, Loping and Leading For A Cure, held March 5-8 in beautiful Lake St. Louis, Missouri, is a spectacular AQHA horse show put on by Doug Landon and managed by Mark Harrell Horse Shows. In 2008, the show raised over $55,000 to benefit The Shirley Bowman Nutritional Clinic at OU Cancer Institute. This year it will also be the venue for the 1st Annual Jerry Wells Memorial Halter Futurity.

The idea for the futurity came from show chairman, Doug Landon. He wanted to commemorate the legendary horseman and 60-time AQHA World Champion, Jerry Wells, who passed away in May, 2008 from cancer.

The open halter classes the the 2008 AQHA World Show are finally complete.  With a total of 18 World Championships up for grabs in the open division, exactly half of the titels went to just 2 exhibitors.  Gene Parker of North Carolina took home 3 and Ross Roark of Texas took home 6 of the highly coveted golden horse globes in a dominating performance of halter competition.

The halter classes may have been the "low hanging fruit" of this year's Amateur World Championship Show if winning a jacket was your ulitmate goal.  With 268 horses showing in a total of 18 classes, there was a pretty good chance your class wouldn't even have 15 total entries as classes averaged just over 14 exhibitors each.  And if top-five honors was on your radar, the Amateur Performance Halter Stallions would have been the class for you with at total of only 4 showing.  Be that as it may, the world's most beautiful horses and their Amateur exhibitors competed for top honors in the halter classes at this year's AQHA World Show.

GoHorseShow.com is very happy to report that 64-time AQHA World Champion, Ted Turner, was released from the hospital Thursday after undergoing successful kidney surgery. Turner was given a clean bill of health and was pronounced 100% cancer free, according to his wife, Darlene Turner.

As the 2008 All American Quarter Horse Congress coverage kicks off on GoHorseShow.com, we give you an inside look at some of the special stories surrounding the most high-profile classes at the show.

To start things off, Jeffrey Pait of Sparta, New Jersey talks about his Masters Weanling Filly Champion, Taryn Rose, and carrying out the legacy of her dam, the great MBJ Mini Obvious who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

The World Conformation Horse Association (WCHA) announced that it is postponing its annual meeting and anniversary celebration which was to take place during the Congress.  It has been rescheduled during the AQHA World Championship Show in Oklahoma City in November.

The World Conformation Horse Association (WCHA) has completed its final round of inaugural testing for judging applications. These 13 finalists have passed all phases of testing and written recommendations from an initial pool of over 20 applicants to receive their WCHA Judges Cards.

The WCHA would like to thank its Judges Committee for all of their efforts and yet another stride in the right direction for the WCHA. Please welcome and congratulate the first WCHA Judges. Read more to see a complete list.