Yearly Archives: 2011

The Champlin name has been in the headlines lately which prompted us to ask what ever happened to 1997 AQHYA World Champion, Christa Champlin? Christa's mother, Laurel Champlin, and sister, Cassidy, just won the World and Congress on their new horse, Look N Hott, which we featured in an article a few weeks ago.

There has been a running joke in our house about the hours spent watching horse shows online for the last 5 weeks. I think about how long trainers and horses have been on the road, knowing about the stress of competition, the long hours and odd schedules that they keep. All that has me wondering…

Steve Heckaman Quarter Horses of Aubrey, Texas has announced an amazing Black Friday sale on breedings to their two stallions, Potential Asset and Presidential Order. Save 50% on a discounted stud fee and breed to one of these great stallions for just $500! HURRY! The Black Friday program ends at 10:00 am Central on Monday November 28.

Oklahoma City isn't exactly the mid-point between Georgetown, Kentucky, and Hastings, Minnesota. But it was the site of the AQHA World Championships and the World Show Sale, and OKC was the place where Bennie and Cheryllee Sargent made a decision about AQHA Champion stallion Good Huh.

Hot N Blazing had a great 2011 show season, with 2 AQHA World Champions, 1 Reserve World Champion, 6 Congress Winners, 2 Reserve Congress winners and 20 horses that were Top Ten at the Congress.

Jane Humes of Fort Dodge, Iowa has been showing quarter horses for over 27 years but had never won a World Championship until now. Jane says she has been trying to "claw" her way to the top and finally reached her goal at the AQHA World Championship Show. Within twenty four hours, she won back-to-back gold trophies with her horses, Design By Leaguer and VS Check My Pulse.

The AQHA World Championship Show, each November in Oklahoma City, is truly a pinnacle event featuring the best American Quarter Horses in the World.  GoHorseShow.com has Kruzer Candids from both the Open and Amateur weeks of the show plus easy links to the results and show information.

Air Ride Equipped knows what he’s doing out in the hunter under saddle ring, that’s for sure. On November 19, he didn’t mind showing AQHA Professional Horseman Keith Miller Jr. the ropes out in the Jim Norick Arena at the 2011 AQHA World Championship Show. “This is actually the first time I’ve ever shown at the World Show, so to win it is just incredible,” beams Keith, a resident of Reidsville, North Carolina.

When Kenny Lakins Jr. and AQHA Professional Horseman Adam Wainscott were the last men left in the arena after the junior western pleasure finals, both felt it would be a win no matter what.

Laurel Champlin of Gardnerville, Nevada, loves hunter-style American Quarter Horses. In September, she earned a gold trophy at the Adequan Select World Championship Show in hunt seat equitation with Skys Blue Eyes. So she was understandably excited to see her up-and-coming horse, Look N Hott, win a gold trophy for her November 18 at the AQHA World Championship Show in junior hunter under saddle.