Makenna Noon to lead 2024-2025 AjPHA Executive Committee
Makenna Noon to lead 2024-2025 AjPHA Executive Committee Votes have been tallied and the 2024–2025 AjPHA Executive Committee is off and running. Congratulations to the Youth leaders below, who will help guide AjPHA forward. The AjPHA Executive Committee plays a vital role in overseeing the association’s affairs, reporting to Youth members and guiding the future […]
APHA publications honored with 2024 APEX Awards of Excellence
APHA publications honored with 2024 APEX Awards of Excellence APHA’s official publications, Paint Horse Journal and Chrome, were recently recognized with 2024 APEX Awards of Excellence. This prestigious accolade honors outstanding achievements in graphic design, editorial content and overall communications excellence. Paint Horse Journal received the APEX Award of Excellence in the category of “Print Magazines, Journals & Tabloids,” a […]
Young artists awarded in AjPHA art & photo contests
Young artists awarded in AjPHA art & photo contests Aspiring artists showcased their creations at the 2024 APHA World Championship Show as part of the AjPHA Make Your Mark Art & Photo Contests and annual coloring contest. Winners were selected in multiple age categories by a group of APHA staff judges. Congratulations to our winners: Art & […]
Markel/APHA Professional Horsemen shine at 2024 Paint World
Markel/APHA Professional Horsemen shine at 2024 Paint World APHA’s Professional Horsemen members are talented, dedicated and upstanding members of the Paint community; many achieved notable success at the 2024 APHA World Championship Show, both directly and via their clients. John Briggs, a Markel/APHA Professional Horseman from Pilot Point, Texas, earned several championships at the show and […]
Paint World Show 2024 crowns all-around champions & leading titleholders
Congratulations to the World Show 2024 participants and champions, especially our all-around saddle winners and leading award titleholders.
Shooting for Retirement: Jessica Amos & Flash Me A Wild Card take one last ride
Jessica Amos and Flash Me A Wild Card are aiming for one last memorable ride. “Joker,” a 2000 black overo gelding, is loping into retirement after the 2024 APHA World Championship Show. “My horse is 24 this year, and although everything that he is telling me says he isn’t ready to quit, you never know […]
Heroes on Horses honored at APHA World Show
As Brooke King smoothed her hand over the tobiano filly’s ebony-and-cream coat, a sense of calm washed over the combat veteran. “I joke that she is my service horse,” Brooke said about MWO Bonnie Lass, her 2021 black tobiano mare. “She walked straight up to me as a foal, turned and laid on me—she picked […]
First-time fun: How Ava Mariotti’s attitude shaped her first World Show experience
First-time fun: How Ava Mariotti’s attitude shaped her first World Show experience AjPHA member Ava Mariotti of Jacksonville, Florida, made her debut at the 2024 APHA World Championship Show. Ava did not have plans to attend this year’s show until she found Fancy This Lope, a 2023 black overo mare by Lopin Lazy and out of […]
Norman & the Keathly family: The more the merrier
Norman & the Keathly family: The more the merrier At an age where many horses are slated for retirement, Investers Norfleet is still hitting his stride. “Norman,” a 22-year-old chestnut overo gelding, saddled up for his first APHA World Championship Show this year, making a 20-year dream come true for three generations of the Keathly family. Owner […]
Global connections: Seven Youth lease Paints with help from the Lazos
Kelly and Sabine Lazo of Caldwell, Texas, are expanding access to the Paint Horse community one Youth at a time. At the 2024 APHA World Championship Show, the mother-daughter duo hosted seven international exhibitors from China and New Caledonia. They secured horses for all seven Youth to lease, giving the global crew a first-hand experience of […]