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SPRINGFIELD-Tom Sapp, age 86, of Springfield, IL died at his home on Monday, August 9, 2010. He was born on January 29, 1924 in Caneyville, KY the son of Carl and Dalsie Mahurin Sapp. He married Rose Mary Bono on April 9, 1944. He was preceded in death by 2 sisters; Mildred Crawford and Mary Gay Sapp, brother; Leonard Sapp, sister-in-law; Lovene Sapp and brother-in-law; Andrew Bono.

He is survived by his wife; Rose Mary Sapp of Springfield, 3 daughters; Suzanne (Edward) Cowman of New Berlin, Dianne (Guiseppe) Eppers-Dicapo of Grayslake and Cindy (Greg) Morris of New Berlin, 5 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren, 2 sisters; Garnette Winch and Ura Lovene Bono, both of Springfield, and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Mr. Sapp has lived in the Springfield area since he was 4 years of age. He attended East Pleasant Hill School and graduated from Lanphier High School. He was a member of St. Joseph Church, Illinois State and National Auctioneers Associations for over 50 years, and an inductee into the Illinois Auctioneers Association Hall of Fame. He attended Reppert's Auction School in the 1950's and was an auctioneer instructor at the International College of Auctioneering in Davenport, IA. For 46 years he owned and operated Tom Sapp Auction and Realty. He conducted auctions in many states including, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa selling land, factories, heavy construction equipment and real estate. He co-owned and developed many area subdivisions in addition to various other community developments. He served on the Sangamon County Fair Board for over 40 years and served as Director of the Fair for 20 years. Mr. Sapp was a former Director for the Warren-Boynton State Bank of New Berlin. In the 1960's he served as clerk of the Probate Court and was a Mayoral Candidate. He especially enjoyed the neighborhood while living in Val-E-View for over 40 years. He loved traveling with his wife.

A visitation will be held from 4 - 7 pm Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at Staab Funeral Home. A funeral mass will be held at 10:00 am Thursday, August 12, 2010 at St. Joseph Church with Monsignor Thomas P. Holinga officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Memorial Home Services Hospice, St. Joseph Church or School.

In just seven months, APHA’s newest program—Professional Horsemen—has reached 21 members, with more applications coming in each week. This program consists of APHA equine professionals who pledge to encourage professionalism, integrity and fairness throughout the horse industry, and particularly the Paint Horse industry. Potential members must apply to and be accepted into the program, be APHA members in good standing, provide member references and agree to function as experts and ambassadors at local Paint Horse shows and other equine events, answering questions and promoting the breed and Association. Download an application.

Current APHA Professional Horsemen:

Purina to host more than 50 events across the U.S. in an effort to reach out to the rural community and feed today for a difference tomorrow

(ST. LOUIS, Mo. – August 9, 2010) –Purina is thinking pink this fall as they gear up for their first ever Pink 50 Campaign, an effort to unite animal lovers everywhere and raise awareness and support for breast cancer research. In September and October, more than 50 fundraising events will be held by Purina retailers nationwide in an effort to encourage communities to take action against the disease.

“The purpose of the Pink 50 Campaign is to reach out to women in rural America —raising awareness about breast cancer, educating and sharing information and supporting one another,” said Christy Goodwin, Marketing Manager, Land O’Lakes Purina Feed. “At Purina, we’ve always been passionate about making a positive impact in the lives of animals and their owners.”

Purina’s Pink 50 Campaign events will range from trail rides and barbeques to tack swaps, with each event sharing a common purpose — to feed today for a difference tomorrow. For a listing of local events, log on to www.purinamills.com/Pink50.

In addition to the more than 50 Purina events taking place across the nation in support of breast cancer awareness and research, Purina also will be turning its top animal feed packages pink. Purina plans to donate a portion of the proceeds from every pink bag sold to breast cancer research. Select animal feeds include Equine Senior^®, Strategy^® GX, and Omolene #200^®horse feeds, Layena^®SunFresh^® Recipe poultry feed, Rabbit Chow^TMComplete Natural AdvantEdge^® rabbit food and Goat Chow^®goat feed.

The Pink 50 Campaign was inspired by Purina’s Equine Senior Horse Tales Contest held every other year that encourages horse owners to share their heartfelt stories.

“Several stories that we receive from horse owners describe how their horses offered an escape from cancer and other illnesses and how their horses provided comfort to family members as they stood by and helped mothers, daughters, fathers and sons through treatment,” said Goodwin.

To find events in your area, or for more information on a specific event, contact your local Purina retailer or log on to www.purinamills.com/Pink50.

Land O’Lakes Purina Feed LLC (www.landolakesinc.com) is a national organization serving producers and their families through 4,700 local cooperatives and independent dealerships throughout the United States. The company, in combination with its wholly owned subsidiary Purina Mills, LLC, is North America’s leading feed company, providing producers, cooperatives and dealers with an extensive line of animal feed, ingredients and services designed to help agricultural producers, dealers and cooperatives compete in the global marketplace.

Good Cowboy Margarita, LLC is proud to announce the celebration of Good Cowboy Margarita's NSBA Horse of the Year honors by thanking all of the fans, judges and NSBA Board Members that made this title possible. Toast to Cowboy with a drink created especially for him made with Maker's Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey! Enjoy the flavor of Kentucky with food and beverage at a "Good Cowboy Margarita Party" held during the Yearling Sale Preview at the Reichert Celebration in Tulsa, Oklahoma on August 12 beginning at 11:30AM.

[NPI Float="left"]/Media/4/jpg/2010/8/4e871051-f050-a6fa-70bab5a246afbfd9.jpg[/NPI]Watch for details of upcoming "Good Cowboy Margarita Parties" at both the QH Congress in Columbus, Ohio and the AQHA World Show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Book your mare during a Good Cowboy Margarita Party and receive a breeding discount for 2011. For more details go to www.GoodCowboyMargarita.com.

Gollehon Quarter Horses will be presenting four top notch yearlings in the Reichert Western Yearling Sale including the newly crowned Palomino World Champion in Open Yearling Longe Line. Videos are online now at www.Gollehon.com or check them out in person at the preview during the Good Cowboy Margarita party!

American Quarter Horse Association offers $15 fee for transfers and extends reduced rate on registrations for American Quarter Horses 3 years and older.

If you’ve had the paperwork laying around for a couple of years on your American Quarter Horse and just never got around to getting it registered or transferred into your name, now is the time to preserve the pedigree of your treasured equine friend!

AQHA is extending its offer of reduced registration fees for horses 3 and older. Normally, the fee for registering a 3-year-old is $550 and the fee for horses over the age of 4 is $1,000. AQHA’s reduced rate is $300, and that offer is good until December 31, 2011.

However, to take advantage of either of these reduced-price offers, all of the paperwork needs to be in order, meaningother requirements of registration must still be met.

In the case of registering a horse that’s 3 years old or older, if the application is complicated, AQHA might have to charge a nonrefundable $100 complex-transaction fee in addition to the registration fee. This will typically be done when AQHA’s registration department must handle multiple generations of horses to get the horse registered, or if a DNA type has to be built for horses that are no longer available for DNA typing. This will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

With the $15 transfer offer,completed and signed transfer forms from each previous owner are still needed, but the fee is a low, one-time charge of $15 for members. Nonmembers can take advantage of the $15 transfer offer by joining AQHA for only $35.

Properly updated registration papers:

• Provides verification that an owner owns a particular horse
• Helps preserve the breed
• Increases a horse’s value
• Makes horses eligible to compete in various events
• Demonstrates pride in a horse

This is your chance to brag to your friends and say, "I’ve got an American Quarter Horse and I’ve got the papers to prove it!"

Get your paperwork done quicker by bringing it all to one of the remaining AQHA events near you this year! AQHA offers onsite services at all of the AQHA Regional Championships held around the United States and Europe, the Adequan Select World Championship Show in late August in Amarillo, the Bank of America Amateur and Fedex Open World Championship Show in November in Oklahoma City, and the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in December in Las Vegas.

Check AQHA’s online calendar for more information. Call AQHA’s customer service department at (806) 376-4811 for assistance in registering or transferring your horse. You can download a registration application or a transfer report from AQHA's website..

Wimpy P-1, the horse that holds the No. 1 spot in the American Quarter Horse Association registry, earned that designation when he was named grand champion stallion in March 1941 at the Southwestern Exposition inFort Worth, Texas. Wimpy was bred by the renowned King Ranch of South Texas. That’s just one example of the critical role ranchers and stock shows have played in the formation and growth of the American Quarter Horse industry.

Some might say that he’s too old, but Docs Some Boss isn’t going to let that stop him from making his last run at another world championship.

It was 4:30 a.m. when the Leges arrived in Oklahoma City for the 2010 Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show. They drove nine and a half hours through the night from Duson, Louisiana, just to beat the heat. Their reason for hauling at night: they were carrying precious cargo.

Docs Some Boss, aka “Doc,” is irreplaceable to the Leges. The 28-year-old chestnut gelding, by Docs Strawboss and out of Sugar Bar’s Sis by Sugar Bars, has been part of the Lege family for 22 years. He carried Carl and Gerri Lege’s daughter, Jennifer, to a reserve youth world championship in 1998 in stake racing and the duo returned in 1999 to win the coveted gold trophy.

Doc isn’t just a single event horse – he’s done everything from heading to heeling, breakaway roping, barrels, pole bending, team penning, and of course, stake racing.

Originally intended as a heeling horse for Carl, Jennifer snuck in two years after the Lege’s purchased Doc and took him as her own. But Carl’s not too torn up over it – aside from Jennifer’s multitude of top-10 finishes at the Ford Youth World, which she qualified for every year that she was a youth, she took Doc to the high school national finals rodeo and the college national finals rodeo, when she was riding for McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

When Carl and Gerri’s niece, Paige Nevils, moved in with them three and a half years ago, they knew that Doc needed to make one last run at the world title, but this time with Paige. Before she moved in with her aunt and uncle, Paige had never ridden a horse. Now she comes at the 2010 Ford Youth World with three years of riding experience.

Paige, 13, says that when she runs Doc, he doesn’t act like your average 28-year-old horse.

“Whenever he’s by the alleyway he gets all hyped up, like he’s a young horse,” Paige says, “but then he’s all laid back whenever he’s not running.”

“He’s been around enough,” Gerri says, “that when he gets in an alleyway, he knows that it’s all business. He’s not one that you can really practice a whole lot on because he’s been doing it for so long. Most of the thing is the trust – he’s got to trust you; you got to know when to cue him at the right time, especially on his left side. He’s gonna give you 150 percent, no matter what. You can never underestimate him. You know they may say, ‘Oh, well, he’s old,’ but she qualified him in one show [this year]. She went to one Quarter Horse show and qualified him – that has to say a lot.”

However, this will probably be Doc’s final year competing. Unfortunately, Gerri doesn’t think that Doc will hold up for Paige’s younger sister, Alexis, 6, so the Leges are on the hunt for another horse. But that’s proved to be a difficult task – they find that Doc is one in a million.

“We’ve started a lot of young horses that have never even come close to him,” Gerri says. “He’s an all-around horse – he can do everything, and he does everything well. We’ve never had another horse like that. We’ve had one horse for this, and one horse for that, but we always load him up in the trailer, and if we didn’t need him, someone else would climb on him. He’s one of those ‘old faithfuls.’ ”

And so far, for an older horse, Doc’s been really easy to keep going.

“He is the easiest horse to upkeep,” Carl says. “He just gets a little vitamin for his joints. He gets senior by Nutrena. And he has his own stall with a turn out pen.”

Doc has suffered a little wear and tear over the years – he’s been blind in his left eye for 12 years.

“One thing about Doc is that he has to have a lot of trust in whoever rides him, because with his blind eye,” Carl says.

Even though the whole Lege family has played a significant role in helping Paige get ready for her first Ford Youth World, it’s Jennifer who has been instrumental to Paige’s success. Unfortunately, the Leges still have a herd of horses and cattle back home in Louisiana and someone had to draw to the short straw to stay home – Jennifer was that someone. However, America’s Horse TV has allowed Jennifer to watch her favorite horse make one last run at a world championship.

UPDATE: Docs Some Boss and Paige placed in the top 10 in the finals of the Stake Race! Congrats to this special team. They placed 9th with a time of 8.89 seconds.

Join us for the 44th Annual
All American Quarter Horse Congress

This year's theme: Great dreams begin with a dreamer.

October 1-24, 2010 – Horse Show
October 5-24, 2010 – Trade Show
Ohio Expo Center, Columbus, Ohio

All Congress horse show entries must be postmarked by August 25, 2010 and received within three working days. (The only exceptions are intercollegiate/junior judging, horse bowl, hippology and communications.) It is recommended that horse show entries be sent certified mail. The show secretary is not responsible for lost or late entries, and is unable to verify receipt of entries due to the volume of mail received. The show secretary sends a postcard acknowledging receipt of entries to all Congress horse show agents.

The Congress Entry Books were mailed the first weekend of August.

Click here to download the full Congress Entry Book.
Click here to download the Congress Entry Form.
Click here to download the Congress Credit Card Form.

(All entry forms must be mailed in with payment. No emailed entries are accepted.
Only Canadian entries are accepted via fax.)


Horse Show Entries should be mailed to:
OQHA
PO Box 209, 101 Tawa Rd
Richwood, OH 43344-0209

Entry Office Hours

The Ohio Quarter Horse Association office in Richwood, Ohio is open M-F, 8:30am-4:30pm. The office will close on Friday, September 25, and remain closed until Wednesday, October 28.

The Horse Show Entry Office (for Reining entries only) will open in the Show Manager’s Office in Celeste Center on Thursday, September 30 at Noon, and will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. the rest of the show.

The Horse Show Entry Office for AQHA and other entries will open in Congress Hall at noon on Friday, October 8, and will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. the rest of the show.

Watch for "The Original Cowboy" - winner of the 2009 Reichert Celebration Harris Maiden Longe Line Futurity entered in the 2010 Reichert Celebration Equine Sports Medicine $250,000 Two Year old Maiden Challenge. The class is scheduled for Saturday, August 14th

The beautiful two year old roan colt by RL Best of Sudden and out of Bonita Sonya Pine will be exhibited by Kenny Lakins from Ohio. The colt was bred by Rodney and Beth Dabagian of Bonita Quarter Horses.

Cody Fisher invites you to make plans to attend the Cotton Bowl held September 24-26th at Tunica, MS. We plan on having another great horse show and a lot of fun! This should be another outstanding show. Judges will be Doug Rath, Tracy Willis, Jennifer Leckey, and David Terrell.

The host hotel is Sam's Town. Use code CIRI10S to receive your room discounts.

Great Features at This Year’s Show!
*Show in any AQHA Green class and show in the corresponding class for Free!
*Show in any Performance class and show in Performance Halter for Free!
*Free Exhibitors Party Friday Night featuring BBQ from The Best Little Boarhouse in
Memphis!
*To be eligible for added money and circuits, you must show to all four judges.

Its Reichert Time! Gumz Farms will be active at the Reichert and NSBA World with a stallion booth on the upper level. Videos and information on all of our 2011 stallions will be available. Be sure to stop by and say hello or pick up some information.

We will also have a great group of sale horses at the Reichert. We will be showcasing 6 great prospects - 4 western and 2 hunter under saddle. These yearlings have been gently raised on the "blue grass" and recently prepped for sale. All of these prospects are KyBIP enrolled as well as most major programs and futurities. For our international buyers, many of these are also eligible for the DQHA.

Videos and photos are on line at http://gumzfarms.com/2009foals/gumz2009foals.html