The December issue of GoMag is a wonderful opportunity for
our advertisers to highlight their success from the Congress and/or World
Shows, to thank their clients or trainers as well as generate business for the
holidays. The December issue also kicks off the beginning of the 2015
breeding season and this issue features many great stallions from different
breeds and disciplines from which to choose.
Cathrin Gutmann of Austria is known for owning and showing some outstanding horses in Europe and in the States. Last year, she won the Congress in the Amateur Hunter Under Saddle with Blue Couture. This year, Gutmann has added another champion, Boys Move Over, to her lineup. "I liked her at the Tom Powers when I first saw her," Cathrin recalls. "But when she stepped out into the warm up pen at the World Show, she was so amazing and I just couldn't take my eyes off her."
Although you may feel as though you just returned home from the
All-American Quarter Horse Congress, there's no time to slow down now.
It's World Show time! The November issue of GoMag, our annual World
Show issue, features horses competing at the AQHA and APHA World
Championship
shows. Due to the quick turn-around time that GoMag's
digital format
provides, we are able to bring you ads featuring winners from the
Congress. Best of luck to everyone competing in Ft. Worth and Oklahoma
City.
Chepota Farm is excited to announce an exciting new development involving their stallion, Spot My Blue Boy. The 11-time World Champion and National Champion Appaloosa Stallion has moved to Raggio Ranch located in Pilot Point, Texas to stand for the 2015 breeding season. His 2015 stud fee is reduced to $900 to celebrate the bright new start to this stallion's breeding career. The $900 includes the first shipment and there is an Early Bird Special that if you pay in full by February 1, 2015, then the breeding fee is $500.
Justin Boot Company–the leader in western and equine footwear since 1879 – launched Justin English, a collection of women’s traditional English riding boots with the support of the equestrian experts at American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). Featuring the essential components for English riders – paddock boots, half chaps and field boots – and inserting innovative technology, the collection offers a solution to riders in terms of performance, fit, comfort, and style.
This year Harris Leather and Silverworks celebrated their 25th year at the Congress. When GoHorseShow visited them in Congress Hall, their booth was packed full of shoppers looking for all types of items including saddles, bridles, buckles, boots, spurs and Harris logo clothes. The entire Harris family was there to answer questions and help anyone that walked through the door.
It is not uncommon for top horses to sell at the Congress after having a
very successful horse show. One big sale so far this year involves the
2013 NSBA Horse of the Year, Huntin My Zipper. Following an
outstanding Congress, Rebekah Kazakevicius sold the four year-old
gelding to amateur Larisa Affeldt. Huntin My Zipper had just won one
Congress Championship and two Reserve Congress Championships.
Congress Champion sire, Machine Made has had four very successful breeding seasons, thanks to Milt
Alderman, Kim Dean and Rick McDonald. His first foal crop are two
year-olds and the up-and-coming sire has celebrated many futurity
winners as well as a 2014 Congress Champion. At this year's Congress,
Justa Machine, by Machine Made, won the Two Year Old Western Pleasure
Stakes Limited division with Wade Black for owner Cheryl Mullikin.
Pine View Farm, home of Invitation Only, Lazy Loper, Winnies Willy, The Best Martini and
Lopin Lazy, would like to congratulate their futurity and maturity
western pleasure winners so far at the Congress. The two year-old events have wrapped up and of the six classes offered for two year-olds, Pine View Farm stallions, Invitation Only and Lazy Loper sired five Champions, one Reserve Champion and nine Top 10's.
Fall is here and it is time to begin thinking of that new suitor for your favorite mare this spring! DeGraff Stables, offering the best in pleasure and performance bloodlines, are pleased to present their exceptional lineup for 2015. New to our farm for the coming season is Fiesta Fudge by Zips Chocolate Chip, owned and promoted by Myers Horse Farms Inc. We are delighted to add this genetic diversity to our World Class Stallion offering.
"This has been a Congress of a lifetime," says Dewey Smith, Prince Farm, LLC resident trainer. "PF Premo was Grand Champion Open and Amateur Stallion and unanimous winners under all eight different judges. I've never heard of that happening before, but PF Premo is a once-in-a-lifetime horse that has a great disposition with an impressive combination of muscle and structural correctness."
Five-time Congress Champion, VS Code Red received red carpet VIP treatment during his meet and greet
with fans Sunday at Congress. The event took place in front of the
Voinovich building from 1 to 3pm and Mallory Beinborn of Impulse
Photography was there to photograph the gorgeous red roan stallion. The
seven year-old stood quietly with his ears up and posed for pictures for
over two hours while receiving kisses and pets from his many admirers.
Don't miss an exclusive chance to meet the one and only VS Code Red. Waylon is holding a meet and greet for his fans on Sunday, October 19th at the All American Quarter Horse Congress. It will be held in front of the Voinovich building from 1 to 3pm. You will be able to get up close and personal with this one of a kind stallion and even get your picture taken with him. Waylon looks forward to seeing everyone there!
Since 1996, American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame stallion Zippo Pine Bar held the No. 1 spot as the all-time leading sire by points earned. But in October 14, 2014, that all changed when Invitation Only’s get amassed 77,064 points, edging out Zippo Pine Bar with 77,061.5 points earned by his offspring. Invitation Only gained the No. 2 spot in the all-time leading sire standings in 2011.