horseIQ Virtual Youth Triathlon crowns inaugural champions Cadence Blackwood and Taylor Mack topped the field when it came to showing their horse knowledge in the inaugural horseIQ Virtual Youth Triathlon. This three-part online challenge took place September through November 2023. Participants competed in prepared public...

Chrome Cash & champagne flow in France at the 2023 NRHA European Derby Devoted Paint Horse fans like Francesca Sternberg already know it pays to ride Paints. But she and her 7-year-old sorrel overo gelding Red Dirt Paleface proved it with their Chrome Cash...

Nearly $7,000 in Chrome Cash paid at 2023 ARHFA World Finals Paint ropers cashed in at the 2023 ARHFA World Finals, where almost $7,000 in Chrome Cash was awarded. The American Rope Horse Futurity Association World Finals took place October 18-21, 2023, in Fort Worth,...

2023 SHTX World Championship slides into Chrome Cash Treylyn Hancock and Slide My Way topped the SHTX Chrome Cash incentive payouts at the 2023 Stock Horse of Texas World Show & Derby. The event took place October 25-29 in Abilene, Texas. Chrome Cash is a...

4th Annual PAC World Championship E-Show crowns champions The 2023 PAC World Championship E-Show crowned more than 70 PAC world and reserve world champions. The event took place September 1-October 16 on the APHA E-Shows platform. The fourth-annual Paint Alternative Competition world championship event featured entries...

APHA and NRHA join forces to bring reining lessons to horseIQ virtual learning The American Paint Horse Association (APHA) and the National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) have furthered their partnership with the creation of a new reining education module on horseIQ, APHA’s popular virtual...

Sandy Jirkovsky appointed as APHA director of judges & professional horsemen The American Paint Horse Association is proud to announce the appointment of Sandy Jirkovsky as its new director of judges and professional horsemen. Jirkovsky, a highly respected and accomplished professional in the equine...

Dates slated for the APHA National Championship Shows in 2024, 2025 & 2026 Building on the resounding success of the APHA Eastern and Western National Championship Shows in 2023, the championship events are again slated for 2024, 2025 and 2026. Put the following dates...

NLDC announces five nominees for the 2024 APHA Board of Directors Five nominees were recommended by the Nomination & Leadership Development Committee for three APHA Board of Director spots coming open in 2024. Nominees are: Karen Banister Paul Caliendo Lyn Fick Monika Hagen Tina...

Paint stallions earn NRHA achievement honors Gunnatrashya (Photo by Cam Esseck and courtesy NRHA) Multiple Paint stallions recently received NRHA achievement honors from the National Reining Horse Association. NRHA Hall of Fame Gunnatrashya, a 2006 sorrel solid stallion by Colonels Smokingun and out of Natrasha,...