2025 APHA World Show
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2025 APHA World Show crowns champs & features growth in select areas

2025 APHA World Show crowns champs & features growth in select areas

From veteran exhibitors with armfuls of accolades cascading across their stalls to first timers who turned wishes into reality by competing on the world stage, 2025 APHA World Show exhibitors come from all over. What they found in Fort Worth, Texas, was a community built on the dual loves of Paint Horses and world-class competition, ready to welcome them with open arms and cheer as dreams came true in Cowtown. More than $1.6 million in cash and prizes were up for grabs at the 2025 APHA World Championship Show. The show boasted notable growth in its Open and Novice ranch classes, the Amateur Walk-Trot divisions, the Youth Futurity Project and PBRIP barrel racing sweepstakes.

The premier Paint show also hosted the Interscholastic Equestrian Association Western National Finals, National Reining Horse Association-approved Cowtown Classic & All-Breed Slide reining event, the American Rope Horse Futurity Association’s Cowtown Classic roping futurity, an all-breed barrel race, Two Ravens Foundation Veterans Slide, and the Heroes on Horses parade and competition in partnership with the National Snaffle Bit Association. The championship took place June 20–July 6 at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

2025 APHA World Championship Show Facts & Figures

  • 1,338 total horses
  • 5,158 total entries
    • 8% increase in Amateur Walk-Trot entries
    • 3% increase in Novice Amateur ranch entries
    • 5% increase in Open ranch class entries
    • 36% increase in PBRIP Barrel Racing Sweepstakes entries—this was also our largest class with 106 entries
    • 22% increase in Youth Futurity Project horses & entries
    • Novice Youth ranch classes and versatility pattern classes made their debut
  • Participants from 43 U.S. states, 3 Canadian provinces and three other countries
  • 343 total classes/events offered
  • 120 added-money classes
  • $100,000 in Youth scholarships
  • 86 Intermediate classes with 168 trophy buckles awarded
  • 19 all-around awards
  • 224 Paints recognized as champions in APHA events
  • 383 Paints recognized as champions or reserve champions in APHA events
  • 496 Paints recognized as champions, reserve champions or bronze champions in APHA events
  • More than 3.9 million views on APHA World Show social media content

 

The 2025 APHA World Championship Show figures don’t yet include numbers and payouts from most halter events—those take place at the APHA/WCHA Halter Million September 20-28, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas. Learn more about that event at apha.com/haltermillion.

Put the 2026 World Show dates on your calendar now, so you can get a piece of the action:

  • World Show: June 19–July 5, 2026
  • Halter Million: September 26-October 4, 2026

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The American Paint Horse Association is the world’s second-largest international equine breed association. Since it was founded in 1962, APHA has registered more than a million horses in 59 nations and territories. APHA promotes, preserves and provides meaningful experiences with Paint Horses. Learn more at apha.com.

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