The world’s largest, single-breed world championship horse show open exclusively to amateur exhibitors age 50 and older just started on Sunday with at the Amarillo National Center in Amarillo, Texas. Click here to view schedule, working order and results and live feed. Thanks to Kelley Rampey for providing these great photos from the shows. She will be providing more candids throughout the show.
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WINNING RUNS
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The Adequan Select World will host 1,290 riders from the United States, Canada and—for the first time ever—Argentina who have come to compete for more than $520,000 in prize money in addition to custom-designed trophies, Montana Silversmiths champion belt buckles, logoed Cripple Creek jackets and the honor of being crowned an American Quarter Horse Association world champion.
Exhibitors qualified for the event by earning a predetermined number of points throughout the year to secure a spot in each of the classes. The show features 41 classes, representing English, western and halter disciplines. The Amarillo economy will get an expected $7.1 million boost during the show’s eight-day run.
New this year, AQHA will recognize the top three Intermediate exhibitors in each class at all four of its world championship shows. An Intermediate exhibitor is an exhibitor who has never placed in the top 10 at an AQHA world show in the particular class in which they are competing. Just as with the championship titles, three Intermediate awards will be given –champion, reserve champion and third place.
AQHA is also allowing exhibitors in especially large classes another chance to make the finals with “shootout” classes. The shootout classes are for scored classes with more than 80 entries. The top-placing 15 horses (plus ties) in the preliminary rounds will qualify to return for the finals. The shootout competition will be for the next 15 high-scoring horses (plus ties). These 15 will compete again immediately, and the top five horses from the shootout will return for the finals.
The Intermediate awards and shootout classes allow more exhibitors to be recognized during the world championship competition.
The American Quarter Horse Journal will provide extensive online coverage of the Adequan Select World. Be sure to catch the live action in the arena on the Pfizer Animal Health webcast, hosted by America’s Horse TV. A special wrap-up of the show will air on RFD-TV at 10 EST on October 6. Complete coverage of the show will be featured in the October 2011 issue of the Journal Plus, the digital supplement to The American Quarter Horse Journal that is free to all Journal subscribers and which can be found at www.aqha.com. Photos of the Adequan Select World champions will be published in the November issue of the Journal.
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The Adequan Select World Championship Show is made possible by AQHA Corporate Partners: Adequan, B&W Trailer Hitches, Bank of America, Farnam, John Deere, Markel, Merial, Montana Silversmiths, Nutrena and SmartPak.
The excitement takes place August 28 – September 3.
