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Contents Issue 6 • Volume 45, No. 1

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by Mary Kirkman

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by Kara Larson

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Cover Story: Ghazala El Jamaal Leaders Of The Times: Al Maliik 2014 Santa Ynez Gelding Futurity—A New Concept In Buying And Selling Geldings And Making Money

by Bart Van Buggenhout

12Region 7 Region 7 Championships—Big Numbers At WestWorld

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by Anne Stratton

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2014 Youth Nationals Preview—Lights, Camera, Action Top Ten Guidelines For Success At Youth Nationals

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The 2014 Arabian Gala Event

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Year Of The Horse: Best Arabian Horse Contest Winners

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by Dr. Brian Dahms DVM

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On The Cover:

Ghazala El Jamaal (Marwan Al Shaqab x Foxbriar Parysel), owned by Bianca and Paul Clark of Westbury Park Arabians International, Perth, Australia.

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Guest Editorial: We Should Be Able To Trust What We See by Stuart Vesty

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25 Things You Don’t Know About Me

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Amateur Spotlight

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Calendar Of Events

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Looking Ahead

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My Message To Youth Riders Every year as we approach Youth Nationals, I can’t help but recall when I was a junior exhibitor.

Those are some great memories, although admittedly, I showed for a long time before I won a class at a major horse show. I showed just because I loved the horses. Over the years I got better and I finally started winning, but as I think about it now, I realize that even with the trophies that have come my way as an adult, those early years are still so special.

Everyone says this, but I think it bears repeating: in showing, it’s not really the color of the ribbon that counts; it’s how much you have learned and improved to get there, as well as how much you learn from being there. So I say to all young riders, when you go to Youth Nationals this year, see the big picture. Remind yourself of what it is all about. It’s about your horsemanship, your ability to perform well in competition, and your sportsmanship, win or lose. It’s about appreciating the Arabian horse, and, I would add, taking a moment to appreciate what the Arabian breed’s junior exhibitor division offers everyone who participates in it. The Youth Nationals gives its riders the chance to earn national awards within a few years of starting to ride. It is all about your commitment, your willingness to work hard and your partnership with your horse.

So, if you are in Albuquerque this July, you are there because you are good at what you do. Especially if you win or add a top ten to your record, but even if you simply ride well, take time to appreciate your accomplishment. Be proud of the level you have attained, and look forward to the potential you offer simply by being there.

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El GhazalaJamaal COVER STORY

by MARY KIRKMAN

It is fairly safe to say that most people wouldn’t send a broodmare a month out of the pasture into the show ring, and certainly not to the AHBA World Cup, one of the industry’s highest profile shows. But that is exactly what Bianca and Paul Clark, and their trainer, Greg Gallún, did with the 7-year-old mare Ghazala El Jamaal.

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“It was a calculated risk,” Gallún admits, “but the mare’s quality speaks for itself. She is not only a national champion in Australia, but a full-on contender for U.S. National Champion Mare. She’s that level.”

The World Cup judges agreed: Only a few points separated Ghazala and her world and national champion

peers, Weiza Mocy, Valori TRF and RH Triana, in their respective age classes. In the 15-strong supreme mare championship, one of the most competitive classes in recent memory, Ghazala stood the test even though Gallún rated her condition as “only about 50 percent.”

As unconventional as her North American debut may have been, Ghazala El Jamaal comes equipped with the credentials to justify it. She was bred at Marlene and George Rieder’s Foxbriar Arabians, in Grovespring, Mo., well-known as the source of such standouts as multi-Brazilian National Champion, U.S. National Champion and World Cup Gold Champion Stallion FA El Shawan and the rising young colt FA El Rasheem, owned by Dubai Arabian Stud. When Ghazala El Jamaal was born, she was so promising that very quickly the Rieders were fielding offers. They decided on Paul and Bianca Clark, of Westbury Park Arabians International, in Perth, Australia, for a number of reasons.

“Paul said, ‘You’ve just sold a Brazilian national champion, wouldn’t you like an Australian one too?’” Rieder recalls. But mainly, she liked their attitude about their Arabians; Rieder, who loves her horses, had confidence that Ghazala would have a good home.

Ghazala was barely off her mother when she began her journey to Australia, a trip complicated by a nightmare in quarantine, but once there, she settled in nicely. The following year, she launched her show career with trainer Michelle Thomas at Chelleason Arabians, and

as a yearling, was named Supreme Arabian Exhibit and Junior Purebred Champion at the Queensland Top of the Range Show. Then, in 2009, she earned the title of Australian National Champion Filly, recording the highest score at the show under such judges as Cindy Reich and Renata Schibler. (In the Australian show ring, she never has been beaten.)

For the next four years, she lived the outdoor life as a broodmare (via embryo transfer) at a prestigious Thoroughbred farm. It was only in January, when Gallún arrived in Australia to see the 2014 National Champion Colt, Ghianni WPI, that Ghazala’s current adventure began. Impressed by the young Ajman Moniscione colt, Gallún asked to see the dam.

“Greg turned to see her silhouette step into the barn aisle, and she immediately grabbed his attention,” Paul recounts with a smile. “He moved quickly toward her, with purpose, eager to critique what he had glimpsed.

It was Ghazala. Michelle, having trained Ghazala as a youngster, raised the lead and Ghazala just grew, striking a perfect pose.

She was on the next plane to the U.S.” “If she hadn’t had such strong conformation, you couldn’t really have considered [entering her at the World Cup],” Gallún says. He recommended that the Clarks show her there, but with the caveat that it would be “very, very hard for her to win.”

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Ghianni WPI (Ajman Moniscione x Ghazala El Jamaal) 2014 Australian National Champion Colt

mare. They’ll remember her, and by the time she gets to Nationals, she will be a finished show horse.’ It was extremely gratifying that without much conditioning and schooling, she held her own in that company.”

The Clarks, who now live in the U.S.—Paul is on assignment for Chevron—have been involved in horses for years, so they understood the drill. Originally interested in straight Egyptian bloodstock (they owned the stallion Simeon Sadran), they purchased Ghazala in 2007 as the foundation for a new breeding program. On a 2004 trip to the United States, Paul had seen Marwan Al Shaqab and found the stallion to be so game-changing that they embarked on a search for a Marwan daughter to ground the new effort. It would be three years before they discovered Ghazala El Jamaal, then just a foal.

Bianca recalls how they felt when they saw the filly in person for the first time. “I gasped, and danced around the stable—Paul and I were absolutely thrilled,” she grins.

“I couldn’t believe that she was ours! We knew Ghazala was going to be life changing (she had the structure; she’s dead level through the body, has the neck, the face, the movement, everything).”

A closer look at Ghazala’s pedigree substantiates the opinion. A three-quarter sister to FA El Shawan, she is

by Marwan Al Shaqab, and out of the Parys El Jamaal daughter, Foxbriar Parysel. Parysel is out of Rieder’s foundation mare, Selket Mirror, the wellspring of Foxbriar’s phenomenally successful broodmare band. “I knew I had to breed Parysel to someone special,” Rieder says. “Marwan throws everything I look for—type, beauty, conformation, personality. You name it.” The result was Ghazala.

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“Parysel has a natural self-carriage about her,” offers Bianca. “She is a fantastic mare with a tiny throatlatch and a neck so long that you think she’s 16 hands. She’s quite a commanding horse, and her offspring have that as well.”

All of that goes into the making of a good horse, especially a good show horse, they note. For Gallún, the whole package is essential, and that is the basis of what he sees in Ghazala.

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“We now judge on a point system,” he says, “and when a horse can score highly in one or two categories, you’ll always place well. But if you can get points everywhere—that’s what wins a national championship. And this mare will point everywhere. She’s big, she is beautiful and she is supremely correct, with great legs; she’s as beautiful standing in the cross ties as she is standing up.

Those are the ones that are so complete that at the end of the day, if you are truly judging, they are going to be the ones that are hard to beat. I think our judges in the U.S. now are really feeling the responsibility of giving points to all the categories, as they should. That’s what any breeder should look for, and that’s what is great about Ghazala.”

Ghazala El Jamaal’s production record so far indicates that she is one of the rare mares that not only excel in competition, but transfer their own attributes to their sons and daughters. From a handful of foals in addition to Ghianni WPI, there has been the filly Ghisele WPI, who has been partially leased to Khizmeht Arabians for foal production, and Michelle Thomas’ Chelleason

Crown Marwanna, who was just named Champion Junior Filly at the Queensland Gala Show, under judge Lenita Perroy.

In the weeks since the World Cup, Ghazala El Jamaal has been named unanimous Pacific Slope Champion Mare, and Region 2 Champion Mare, another step toward her ultimate goal of the U.S. Nationals.

“We’re a small, but focused, family breeding program, competing on a world stage with the giants of the Arabian horse breed and hoping to realize our breeding vision,” says Paul Clark. “That her journey will inspire all breeders to hold true to their vision, and prove that success is not out of reach for all of us in the competitive world of halter, or whatever your chosen discipline, will be her greatest success.”

“Ghazala is a substance and foundation type mare,” Gallún reflects. “She’s the kind of mare who’d take you anywhere you want to go and never take a bad step.” ■

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Leaders Of The Times: June Calendar Feature

Al Maliik

by KARA LARSON

For Al Maliik, 2014 introduces foals on the ground while the 7-year-old stallion remains U.S. Nationals bound. With supreme goals in both avenues, what is it that sets this picturesque Arabian apart? Al Maliik has quality and charisma coursing through his Arabian veins, having one of the most historic pedigrees in the breed. As a son of Marwan Al Shaqab, out of the Ali Jamaal daughter, Maya El Jamaal, he has the bloodlines to make him a great show horse and sire.

Focusing in on this epic bloodline, trainer Andy Sellman says, “He’s of a very popular and quality pedigree. Maya El Jamaal is very well respected and Marwan is one of the most important horses in our industry. Maliik as an individual is what you would want from both parents. Although a horse can be great on paper and not amount to much in real life, this horse turned out to be everything one could have hoped for from the cross of these exceptional horses.”

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A SHOW RING STAR In the show ring, this impressive pedigree comes to life. Lead

by Sellman, Maliik came home this year as AHBA World Cup Senior Stallion Bronze Supreme Champion in his first horse show, marking a beautiful beginning to a stellar show career.

Another impressive aspect of this win serves as a testament to the horse’s overall conformation. Owner Suzanne Acevedo says, “At Vegas, Maliik had the highest score for body and topline in the whole horse show. And that was with only five weeks with Andy. To get him to that show and beat all 250 horses that were there in that category was very impressive for him. I had no idea he had won that until they announced it!”

Next on the checklist is Region 14, followed by the ultimate goal of U.S. Nationals. With this grand finale in Tulsa serving as the pinnacle of 2014 for Al Maliik, the question of what it takes to be a national champion is taken into account. If

this win is based upon the quality and ambiance of the horse, then Acevedo is convinced that Al Maliik has the makings of something great.

“I think the number one thing on him is in his structure. If you were to look at a picture of the standard of the Arabian horse, he is that standard brought to life. He has a beautiful typey face, an incredible shape and length of neck, a great body, big eyes, perfect ears, he’s coupled right, has a laid back shoulder, and superb tail carriage. He has that silhouette of the Arabian horse that says, ‘I’m a national champion,’ from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail.”

A BREEDING VIRTUOSO Moving into this relatively fresh breeding realm of Al Maliik, his first foal crop is now on the ground, boasting some promising visionary prospects. Thrilled with the quality Maliik is proving to pass along, Acevedo shares, “What I’m seeing on newborn foals that I haven’t seen is structure—a testament to his completeness. They have laid back shoulders, upright necks, short backs, tight bodies, and the other thing he’s doing is bringing in a refinement to the face. He has such a delicate facial bone structure and a very tiny muzzle. It will fit in the palm of your hand! In his babies too, I see width between the eyes and the face coming into a triangle like everyone wants to see. The foals also have a great presence already.

Even in the stall, they’re bouncing around with their little tails up over their back, so he is passing along his excellent charisma.”

Beyond type and structure, Acevedo finds distinction in Maliik’s personality.

“Another thing that really sets him apart is his presence. His walk around is spectacular. There was not another horse in his class in Vegas that had a She adds, “They look at you and they walk around like Maliik. Andy had have that scope to their neck. At just a him looking like they both owned that few days old, they sit back and almost ring. That is surely a distinguishing rock back and elevate themselves up on characteristic that makes for a that front end, which I have not seen on a 2014 filly - Al Maliik x Imperial Kabisah championship presentation. Al Maliik lot of newborns.”

(Imperial Al Kamar x BB ORA Kalilah) at the walk has the same perfect type and conformation as when he shows. He shines at the walk and I In terms of the kind of mares he has been bred to, Maliik is got a lot of comments on that specifically.” demonstrating to be versatile and dominant in his finest traits.

Acevedo shares, “He bred two full sisters that are Russian-bred Continuing to facilitate the ideal showcase of Maliik’s many mares in Utah and I can’t believe those foals. Those types tend to attributes in the upcoming shows of 2014 is Sellman. Having make for a heavier horse, but these ones are exotic—huge eyes, complete faith in their show ring bond, Acevedo offers, “Andy tiny faces. Those two really surprised me on what Maliik did. and Maliik are a true team and you can see that he loves the They are just outstanding. Another one I’ve seen is out of a RSD horse. Trainers can tell you that all day long, but when Andy was Dark Victory and Aladdin bred mare, so you’re bringing in Bey in the ring with him in Vegas, it was apparent how wonderfully Shah and have a Polish line—complete refinement on that baby.” they work together.”

With over 70 mares booked so far in 2014, Al Maliik is turning Sellman, too, comments on their prowess in the show ring, heads in his abilities and gaining momentum in his reputation saying, “He’s just a really good boy—easy to train, a dignified as a sire. Exuding type, charisma, quality, and an undeniable fellow, kind, and responsive. Anymore, to be successful on the presence, 2014 might just be the determining year for this pearly national, World Cup, or Scottsdale level, a horse has to have white stud. everything. They can’t just have one good feature, like a pretty neck, or a beautiful face, or a good body. And this horse does Every great horse needs a dedicated owner and team—a crew have everything. He has no weaknesses. In the point system, it that believes in the horse more than life. And within this team, works well because he can score high in every category. That this horse will carve his own destiny in the Arabian horse world. makes him successful as a show horse and sought after as a Through passion, dedication, and a very special team headed by breeding horse. He’s bred a lot of mares in 2014 and he’s bred Suzanne Acevedo, the future of Maliik is boundless. ■ some of the best quality breeding mares in the industry.

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2014 Santa Ynez Gelding Futurity A New Concept In Buying And Selling Geldings And Making Money

by Bart van Buggenhout When promoting the Arabian breed, we don’t always give geldings enough credit. Many, many people who now have fully fledged breeding programs or careers in the breed, started with that one gelding “best friend” who introduced them to the joy of owning an Arabian horse.

While all breeders produce geldings, there is not always a simple way to get those ambassadors to meet up with the next generation of Arabian owners. In pursuit of this goal, Sheikh Jassim Bin Khalifa Al Thani of Aljassimya Farm, and his manager, Bart Van Buggenhout, mapped out the concept of the Santa Ynez Gelding Futurity.

Aljassimya Farm has chosen the strategy of breeding their own vision of the complete and classic Arabian. While the farm is located in Doha, Qatar, it has recognized the advantages of using the Santa Ynez Valley as a base for their famous leased stallions. There is a wealth of great broodmares from the many outstanding breeders already domiciled there, which combined with excellent reproductive care, provides a unique base for producing high-end bloodstock. Following on from production, the area provides a climate suited to bringing up these young horses in the most healthy manner possible—outdoors and grazing.

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Furthermore, Aljassimya Farm has made the commitment to find a place for every horse they breed—a place that respects the individual horse, and the Arabian breed.

Last year, in cooperation with the people power that also makes the Valley a special place, they helped set up the first Arabian Foal Festival. This local foal show for amateur handlers was created as a first step to making Arabian horse shows accessible and fun, and was well received last year. This year, in conjunction with the Santa Ynez Valley Arabian Horse Association, Bart and the Board, consisting of Greg GallĂşn, Henry Metz, Kelly Ulm, Doug Dahmen, and show organizer Michelle Kelly, have expanded the concept to include the Santa Ynez Gelding Futurity.

Every breeder within a 50-mile radius of Santa Ynez may nominate yearling geldings born in 2013 for the first Santa Ynez Gelding Futurity Auction held on Tuesday, July 29th, 2014, on the Addis Live Online Auction. For those geldings accepted into the sale: the breeder pays a fairly substantial fee which goes directly into the prize pot for the futurity. Larger breeders who put more geldings forward, pay a higher fee than smaller vendors. Added to this prize pot will be all the money raised from their sale. On projected figures, it is expected that it will be the biggest payout for futurity geldings existing in the U.S. For example, Aljassimya Farm has nominated 12 selected geldings to the program and as a large breeder has paid the maximum nomination fee of $3,000.00 USD per horse, providing $36,000.00. Other sponsorships, nominations from other farms, and the money raised at auction are expected to take the first prize pot to over $50,000.00, an amazing opportunity for buyers to take advantage of !

For this year, the yearlings sold in the July auction will be eligible to compete at the 2014 October Arabian Foal Festival in a special Futurity Gelding class where they will be eligible to win a portion of the money in the prize pot. They will be judged not only on Arabian type, but also as a future sound sport horse; and will be shown, as is

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every other entrant at the show, by an amateur and with strict presentation guidelines. In 2015, this same group of geldings, now two years olds, will be eligible to enter the Futurity Trail class, where they will be able to win another portion of the prize pot. For 2016, this first group of three year olds will be expected to compete in a long line class combined with trail that prepares them for a future on whatever performance division they are most suited for.

In this class, they will be able to win the remainder of the money from the 2014 prize pot. The amateur restriction will remain in place in an effort to reward real horse owners and not just small groups of professionals. In this way, new people can participate, enjoy and win with an Arabian, while the professionals can encourage and teach those the skills they need to take part in the breed. A new group of geldings will enter the scheme each year, each with their own prize pot to be competed for over three years.

The Board hopes that this prize money can kick-start some interest in geldings before they reach the age of three, when people finally start to consider them as potential riding horses and take them out of the breeder pasture. The classes they compete in, not just sport horse halter, but trail and a pre-performance class, have been chosen to encourage them to be developed as perfect Arabian ambassadors for new people to get involved with.

Lets get together to make this a gelding fantasia, where our best and loyal friends for life are celebrated, honored and loved. n

Photo by Michelle Kelly

Future hopes are that the program can become the finest of its kind in the U.S., providing multiple payoffs. Adding peace

of mind to the breeders, that their surplus horses are now being used in dignified roles, and creating the opportunity to develop a more trusting clientele who can buy a vetted horse from a scheme that has the potential to defray their initial upkeep cost. In short, encouraging the middle class riding and fun-loving family owner back into the business.

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Photo by Michelle Kelly

A fantastic collection of yearling geldings, all eligible to win prize money at The Arabian Foal Festival consigned by their renowned breeders of the Santa Ynez Valley.

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Region 7 Championships

Big NumBers At WestWorld

by Kara Larson

With three highly competitive arenas running simultaneously, the 2014 Region 7 Championships was, once again, an impressive Arabian horse show. Held at the accommodating WestWorld in Scottsdale, Ariz., Region 7 Director Chris Culbreth reflects on the success of this year’s show. “My favorite part of this year’s Region 7 Championships was the overall atmosphere of the event. The energy was high in all three arenas, and along with a busy Patrons’ lounge, cocktail parties, a huge shopping venue, informational seminars and excellent weather, Region 7 was the place to experience everything equestrian. The competition was absolutely incredible in all disciplines. Our halter division was particularly strong,

featuring some champion horses fresh from their victories at the World Cup show in Las Vegas.”

Today, to keep growing and bringing new people in, a horse show has to be unique in the venue, show range in its classes, and be an exciting event for all. And for Culbreth and the rest of the Region 7 Show Committee, they focus on making all of these components a reality.

“Our show is unique in that we offer competition for nearly every event Arabians compete in. We have a full slate of main ring performance and halter classes, as well as complete Sport Horse and Working Western divisions.

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brought to us by our former Show Chairman and current Sport Horse Manager, Bruce Johnson. This policy means that every year after the show, we sit down and look at every comment from the previous year’s show. We solicit these comments from show participants, staff, and judges.

We take every comment seriously and we are constantly striving to improve our event.”

Sherry Layne, and Sannene Garehime; Special Events and Commercial Chairman Kelly Charpentier, Show Manager Matt Kwapich and Working Western Manager Cindy Reid; Melanni Hershberger is Show Secretary, Bruce Johnson, Sport Horse Chairman, and Howard Shenk is the Show Treasurer. Heading up our outstanding group of volunteers was Wendy DeBevoise.”

A few helpful additions to this year’s show made the event a far more personable one. “In addition to an always friendly, helpful show office, we focused on small touches, like free ice delivered daily to Patron’s barns, and free bottled water constantly distributed around the stable area,” Culbreth says. “These have helped to make our show one of the best.”

As for the hardworking committee members behind the vision of Region 7, Culbreth shares, “This year’s show committee was co-chaired by Marilou Balloun and Joanne Triplett. Both ladies did an outstanding job of organizing and running our show. The entire Show Committee is comprised of: Region 7 Secretary, Lorre McGee, who handled all of the contracts, Lisa Shover, John Allred, Crystal JohnsonAllred, Jessica Bein, Mike Brock,

With a willing staff, an exceptional venue, and plenty of activities available to exhibitors, there is only one remaining aspect to be discussed about Region 7—the horses. In terms of numbers, Culbreth discusses the positive increase this horse show has been privy to. “For the last 3 years, we have had a steady increase in horse and rider participation. This year we had 664 horses, which was up from 632 in 2013. Participants represented 25 states, Canada, Poland, and South Africa. We nearly sold out of stalls in the WestWorld facility. Under the guidance of Lisa Shover and her crew, our Patrons program has nearly doubled in support from exhibitors.”

With the successful completion of the 2014 Region 7 Championships, Culbreth offers, “We had tons of positive feedback. We also had

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constructive feedback on things we could do better. My favorite thing to hear is, ‘Great show, we’ll be back next year!’” Culbreth adds, “We are always making plans to improve our show.

We are committed to having a first class event and will continually strive to be one of the top showcases for the Arabian horse.”

As Region 7 continues to evolve with the times, welcome new exhibitors, and put forth great effort in improvements, Culbreth and the Show Committee invite all to venture down to WestWorld next April.

Chris Culbreth “Region 7 is held at one of the nicest show facilities in the world. The WestWorld venue features almost 1,000 large permanent stalls, three covered arenas (one air conditioned), a huge commercial vendor area, and seven outdoor arenas—all with excellent and wellmaintained footing. Additionally, the show grounds is located within the City of Scottsdale, which in itself is a top destination for shopping, dining, golf, and a myriad of other activities.”

2014 Region 7 Championship Show Results April 22-27, 2014

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Results provided by Region 7 Show Commission.

Purebred Halter Stallions Arabian Stallions 3 Years & Over Championship - Champion: BAAHIR EL MARWAN (Marwan Al Shaqab x HB Bessolea), H: David Boggs, O: Bassam Al Saqran; Reserve: PSYARGENT MAJOR PA (Major Jamaal x Psyren FA), H: Enrique Carranza, O: Sandra Stern.

Arabian 2-Year-Old Stallions Championship - Champion: CADANCE PA (Cavalli x Donatella), H: Sandro Pinha, O: Pegasus Arabians; Reserve: OLYMPUS CW (Magnum Psyche x Dyna HCF), H: Rodolfo Guzzo, O: Francisco Cobo; 3rd: BYZANTIUM O ( Jaipur El Perseus x Clio Belize), H: Greg Knowles, O: The Jaipur Initiative LLC; 4th: ROYAL FIERRO (Falcon BHF x Franchesca BHF), H: Ryan Pullara, O: Mark Davis.

Arabian Yearling Colts/Geldings Breeders Sweepstakes Championship - Champion: SOUL OF MARWAN AS (Marwan Al Shaqab x RD Challs Angel), H: Sandro Pinha, O: Arabian Soul Partners Ltd.; Reserve: NABILIANO APA (El Nabila B x Tiaraa Rose), H: Gilberto Valdez, O: Cordell Overgaard; 3rd: PRECISION B (Pogrom x Promonahde), H: Sean Ronan, O: Janene Boggs; 4th: RD E-BEY (Bey Ambition x Magic Enchantment), H: Claudinei Machado, O: Murray Popplewell.

Arabian Yearling Colts/Geldings NonSweepstakes Championship - Champion: VITORINO DC (Vitorio TO x Kharalisa BPA), H: David Boggs, O: Daniel Pastorino; Reserve: HS MAGNUM DE WIEC ( Jiulliusz De Wiec x My Chanell), H: Terry Holmes, O: Laura Harris; 3rd: MC VULCAN (Vitorio TO x Lovins Khrush SSA), H: Alcides Rodrigues, O: Oak Ridge Arabians; 4th: AZIZ PA (Trussardi x RD Challs Angel), H: Troy White, O: Pegasus Arabians; 5th: SQ MULSANNE (AAS Elishahh x R Arabella), H: Dagmar Gordiano, O: Bassam Al Saqran.

Mares Arabian Mares 3 Years & Over Championships - Champion: WIEZA MOCY (QR Marc x Wieza Marzen), H: David Boggs, O: Michalow State Stud Farm; Reserve: MARTINIS AT NOON (PA Hi-Noon x Daiquiri Bey),

H: Terry Holmes, O: Marcy Myers; 3rd: EAVA HRN (Ecaho x SS Heiress), H: Ricardo Rivero, O: Glenn Stevenson; 4th: MORNING STAR DP (SF Veraz x S Tinkerbell), H: Gary McDonald, O: Gary McDonald; 5th: BEYJJING (A Noble Cause x Premier Addition), H: John Joyner Jr, O: John Joyner Jr. Arabian 2-Year-Old Filles Championship - Champion: CHANTILLY LACE ORA (Vitorio TO x Raherra), H: Alcides Rodrigues, O: Oak Ridge Arabians; Reserve: GP MAJIC POTION (Majik of Marwan x C Sade), H: Sandro Pinha, O: Arturo Ortega Olive; 3rd: LADY FADORA PA (Cavalli x Fadila PCF), H: Troy White, O: Pegasus Arabians; 4th: ROYAL ITALIA (Enzo x SR Ssequin), H: Joao Carlos Silvestre De Sousa, O: Merkaz Holdings Ltd. Arabian Yearling Filly Breeders Sweepstakes Championship - Champion: PITONISA AS (Ever After NA x Psyches Amber Dream), H: Sandro Pinha, O: Arabian Soul Partners Ltd.; Reserve: RD VERSARIA (Aria Impresario x La Bella Versace FR), H: Claudinei Machado, O: Murray Popplewell; 3rd: LADY VITORIO ORA (Vitorio TO x TM Mona Lisa), H: Alcides Rodrigues, O: Oak Ridge Arabians; 4th: VITORIOS AMORE (Vitorio TO x MP Danza), H: Dagmar Gordiano, O: Anthony Marino, Jr; 5th: LOVE OF MARWAN (Marwan Al Shaqab x Amety B), H: Greg Knowles, O: Running Horse Ranch LLC. Arabian Yearling Filly Non-Sweepstakes Championship - Champion: MC VITORIA (Vitorio TO x Angelinaa JD), H: David Boggs, O: Oak Ridge Arabians; Reserve: LAYLA X (Xanthuss x PA Mark Me Famous), H: Alcides Rodrigues, O: Thomas Walter; 3rd: ROYAL MARWTEYNA (ZT Marwteyn x GC Merpsyoita), H: Greg Knowles, O: Debra Mitchell; 4th: AMBIANCE PA (Freedom PA x Lilly Rose), H: Troy White, O: Pegasus Arabians; 5th: VALENCIA DPA (Vegas DPA x Psymply Red VF), H: Joao Rodrigues, O: Kristi Hopp.

Arabian Mares AAOTH Championship Champion: WC GODIVA (Gazal Al Shaqab x JE Ali Selene), H: Amanda Fraser, O: Mark Davis; Reserve: MARTINIS AT NOON (PA Hi-Noon x Daiquiri Bey), H: Marcy Myers, O: Marcy Myers; 3rd: VDS AMIRAH (Legacy of Fame x VDS Overlook Amore), H: Jacqueline

Suleiman, O: Jacqueline Suleiman; 4th: SR SSEQUIN (Sshameless x Claair De Lune), H: Lee Courtney, O: Lee Courtney.

Arabian Mares JTH 18 & Under Championship - Champion: FADILA PCF (Magnum Chall HVP x Forelady HVP), H: Tory Wikel, O: Pegasus Arabians; Reserve: MORNING STAR DP (SF Veraz x S Tinkerbell), H: Kenneth Blake McDonald, O: Gary McDonald; 3rd: PRIMM (Etro PA x HS Primavere), H: Camille McDonald, O: Gary McDonald; 4th: PSYTATIONS SHOWGIRL (Psytation EA x EC Miss Miracle), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc. Geldings Arabian Geldings 3 Years Old & Over Championship - Champion: REGAL ENCORE CCA (Regal Actor JP x Eloize), H: Terry Holmes, O: Kathleen Kelly; Reserve: SAABER AL SHAHANIA (Marwan Al Shaqab x MFA Annies Song), H: Ricardo Rivero, O: Lorne Robertson; 3rd: FAM VERMILLION (SF Veraz x OFW Dark Amber), H: Gary McDonald, O: Carolyn McDonald Shino; 4th: MONTICETO LN ( Justify x JD Allove Story), H: Gilberto Valdez, O: Natalie Jones; 5th: GIOVIALLI XX (MPA Giovanni x MFA Love Ntyme), H: Alcides Rodrigues, O: Alcides Rodrigues.

Arabian Geldings 2 Years Old Championship - Champion: JAXOM QF ( Jagger SWF x Marissa Bey SWF), H: Michaelle Garden, O: Lori Sheen.

Arabian Geldings 2 Years & Over AAOTH Championship - Champion: GIOVIALLI XX (MPA Giovanni x MFA Love Ntyme), H: Margaux Rodrigues, O: Alcides Rodrigues; Reserve: TANZINITE (Psytanium x My Dreamgirl), H: Sharon Dibblee, O: Sharon Dibblee; 3rd: LLC PARKER (Pyro Thyme SA x TC Kharieta), H: Sierra Reyes, O: Sierra Reyes.

Arabian Geldings JTH 18 & Under Championship - Champion: FAM VERMILLION (SF Veraz x OFW Dark Amber), H: Joshua Shino, O: Carolyn McDonald Shino; Reserve: MONTICETO LN ( Justify x JD Allove Story), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Natalie Jones; 3rd: SHAHTEYN (Besson Carol x Shahteyna), H: Darby Deak; O: Darby Deak.

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Region 7 Arabian Performance English Pleasure Arabian English Pleasure Championship Champion: ROL FIRE LILY (Afire Bey V x Singularcylection), H: Dennis Wigren, O: Judy Mittenthal; Reserve: NOBLE HUNTER (XL Noble Express x Hidee Afire), H: Nicole Larson, O: Nicole Larson; 3rd: BUZZZ (Apollopalooza x Nitemotion), H: Falan Alpert, O: Falan Alpert.

Arabian English Pleasure Junior Horse Championship - Champion: MUST BE LUV (IXL Noble Express x Musamerica), H: Jonathan Ramsay, O: Michelle Oliver; Reserve: BOMBARDIER EXPRESS VA (IXL Noble Express x Balquelotta V), H: Brandon Flood, O: Mayree Nolan; 3rd: COOL BREES WB (Mamage x Alexandria WB), H: Shannon Beethe, O: Kara Amundson-Laventure.

Arabian English Pleasure AAOTR Championship - Champion: SHOCKED (SF Specs Shocwave x Hollyluya), H: Karen Dearth, O: Pine Ridge Arabians; Reserve: ROL FIRE Lily (Afire Bey V x Singularcylection), H: Judy Mittenthal, O: Judy Mittenthal; 3rd: MUST BE LUV (IXL Noble Express x Musamerica), H: Michelle Oliver, O: Michelle Oliver; 4th: LOVE SHOC (SF Specs Shocwave x En-Love), H: Kim Lewis Farmer, O: Kim Lewis Farmer; 5th: GOTTA WEAR SHADES (Apollopalooza x Matariaelle Girl), H: Susan Drescher-Mulzet, O: Dremul Enterprises, Inc. Arabian English Pleasure JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: NOBLE HUNTER (IXL Noble Express x Hidee Afire), H: Nicole Larson, O: Nicole Larson; Reserve: BAD BADLEROYBROWN (Afire Bey V x Evita Padron), H: Mary Mag Wilson, O: Dazzo Arabians; 3rd: BUZZZ (Apollopalooza x Nitemotion), H: James Stachowski, O: Falan Alpert; 4th: AFIRE FLAME (Afire Bey V x Ultra Flame), H: Amanda Burns, O: Taylor McAdams; 5th: GLACIER FIRE (Baske Afire x Snow Fly), H: Jenna Neufeld, O: Neufeld Family Trust.

Arabian Country English Pleasure Championship - Champion: ALLTAIRE AOF (Allionce x Flaring Fire), H: James Lowe, O: Hannah Kulik; Reserve: TEMPTAFIRE (A Temptation x Cinnamon Afire), H: Shannon Beethe, O: Mike Beethe; 3rd: ROL CODE RED (Cytosk x Ebonee), H: Dennis Wigren, O: Mary Anna Napier; 4th: PA ELUSIVE (Emanor x PA Screen Play), H: Joshua Shino, O: A & M Arabians LLC; 5th: DANCING QUEEN PR (Afires Heir x Dancing Fire PR), H: Gary Dearth, O: Gary Dearth.

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Arabian Country English Pleasure Junior Horse Championship - Champion: VENDETTAA (Mamage x Psi Love U), H: James Lowe, O: Beth Jupp; Reserve: ROCKET MAN RM (Afires Vision x Shezn Uptown Girl), H: Chris Culbreth, O: Marilyn Hodgson; 3rd: ROL PURE ASSET (Afire Bey V x Singularcyletion), H: Dennis Wigren, O: Judy Mittenthal; 4th: ON HEIR PR (Afires Heir x On Fire PR), H: Gary Dearth, O: Gary Dearth; 5th: ROL MARTINI (Baske Afire x Matoska), H: Jonathan Ramsay, O: Dremul Enterprises, Inc. Arabian Country English Pleasure AAOTR 40 & Over Championship - Champion: HOLD YOUR APLOZ (Aploz x Alanis), H: Jody Jurkens Gates, O: Jody Jurkens Gates; Reserve: ROL PURE ASSET (Afire Bey V x Singularcyletion), H: Judy Mittenthal, O: Judy Mittenthal; 3rd: N TRIGUE BMA (Triften x Flair WB), H: Gail Lundquist, O: Gail Lundquist; 4th: SUPER NOVA PR (Afires Heir x Copperbey Berry), H: Mary Geneva Hall, O: Mary Geneva Hall; 5th: LOTS OF FIRE CRF (DS Major Afire x G Kallora), H: Ilka Ferguson, O: Ilka Ferguson.

Arabian Country English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 Championship - Champion: ROL CODE RED (Cytosk x Ebonee), H: Leanna Vandlen, O: Mary Anna Napier; Reserve: ALLELULIA AFIRE (Baske Afire x PCF Brianna), H: Stephanie Roberts, O: Stephanie Roberts; 3rd: LLC PARKER (Pyro Thyme SA x TC Kharieta), H: Sierra Reyes, O: Sierra Reyes.

Arabian Country English Pleasure AATR Championship - Champion: TEMPTAFIRE (A Temptation x Cinnamon Afire), H: Mike Beethe, O: Mike Beethe; Reserve: BELLAGIO PR (MS Baquero x Forever Spring PR), H: Karen Dearth, O: Gary Dearth; 3rd: HOLD YOUR APLOZ (Aploz x Alanis), H: Jody Jurkens Gates, O: Jody Jurkens Gates; 4th: ROL PURE ASSET (Afire Bey V x Singularcyletion), H: Judy Mittenthal, O: Judy Mittenthal; 5th: DIESEL AFIRE (Afire Bey V x Bella Crescent), H: Kim Lewis Farmer, O: Kim Lewis Farmer.

Arabian Country English Pleasure ATR Select Rider Championship - Champion: DANA JAMAICA (Baywatch V x Rohara Padrona), H: D. Kathy Allen, O: D. Kathy Allen.

Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: ALLTAIRE AOF (Allionce x Flaring Fire), H: Hannah Kulik, O: Hannah Kulik; Reserve: CP RUMOR HAS IT (CP Sequoia x CP Jasmine), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; 3rd:

GSF OHMY GHAZ (El Ghazi x Crimsonn Bay), H: Annie Willett, O: A & M Arabians LLC; 4th: LLC PARKER (Pyro Thyme SA x TC Kharieta), H: Megan Reyes, O: Sierra Reyes; 5th: MASAAKI (TC Miyake x WC Shes Undeniable), H: Isabella Marino, O: Isabella Marino.

Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: EA YANKEE DOODLE (AA Apollo Bey x EE Msindependence), H: Karli Kelley, O: Larry Lease; Reserve: TOI BASK O H (Toskabi x Tosk Bey), H: Vanessa Pedregon, O: Vanessa Pedregon.

Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: WURLITZER (Triften x Mystic Bey V), H: Shelby Scanlan, O: Deanna Scanlan; Reserve: PA ELUSIVE (Emanor x PA Screen Play), H: Joshua Shino, O: A & M Arabians LLC; 3rd: CP RUMOR HAS IT (CP Sequoia x CP Jasmine), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; 4th: GSF OHMY GHAZ (El Ghazi x Crimsonn Bay), H: Annie Willett, O: A & M Arabians LLC; 5th: GRANOBLE D (IXL Noble Express x Gabriella D), H: Anna Redmond, O: Mary Lou Jones.

Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: EA YANKEE DOODLE (AA Apollo Bey x EE Msindependence), H: Karli Kelley, O: Larry Lease; Reserve: TOI BASK O H (Toskabi x Tosk Bey), H: Vanessa Pedregon, O: Vanessa Pedregon; 3rd: SWIX (SF Specs Shocwave x Just on Ice), H: Danelle Galloway, O: Quinn Eisenfeld.

Park Arabian Park Horse Championship Champion: DA ELECTRA (SF Specs Shocwave x FA Yours Truly), H: James Lowe, O: Jordan Parr; Reserve: MA NOBLE HOPE (IXL Noble Express x MA Bey Mystique), H: Phil Mitchem, O: Gerald Mitchem; 3rd: NOBLE HUNTER (IXL Noble Express x Hidee Afire), H: Jonathan Ramsay, O: Nicole Larson; 4th: INFINITY CSP (Mamage x Broadway Play), H: Susan Drescher-Mulzet, O: Dremul Enterprises, Inc. Arabian Park Horse ATR Championship Champion: NOBLE HUNTER (IXL Noble Express x Hidee Afire), H: Nicole Larson, O: Nicole Larson; Reserve: DA ELECTRA (SF Specs Shocwave x FA Yours Truly), H: Jordan Parr, O: Jordan Parr; 3rd: INFINITY CSP (Mamage x Broadway Play), H: Susan DrescherMulzet, O: Dremul Enterprises, Inc.

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Arabian Stallion 3 Years & Over Champion BAAHIR EL MARWAN (Marwan Al Shaqab x HB Bessolea), shown by David C Boggs for owner Bassam Al Saqran.

Arabian 2-Year-Old Stallion Champion CADANCE PA (Cavalli x Donatella), shown

by Sandro Pinha for owner Pegasus Arabians.

Side Saddle Arabian Ladies Side Saddle English Championship - Champion: JUSTIFYABLEEE LACE ( Justify x Midnight Lace), H: Cheryl Fletcher, O: Emma Freeland; Reserve: KACHINA JUELL V ( Jullyen El Jamaal x Khantina Girl V), H: Natalie Jones, O: Talking Waters Ranch.

Arabian Yearling Colt/Gelding Champion VITORINO DC (Vitorio TO x Kharalisa BPA), shown by David Boggs for owner Daniel Pastorino.

Arabian Mare 3 Years & Over Champion WIEZA MOCY (QR Marc x Wieza Marzen), shown by David Boggs for owner Michalow State Stud Farm and lesee Oak Ridge Arabians.

Arabian Ladies Side Saddle Western Championship - Champion: CHASE THE DREAM (Showkayce x PGN Newyear Zeve), H: Natalie Jones, O: Anita Hill; Reserve: GARTH MH (Khadraj NA x Dancing Gdynia), H: Danielle Stock, O: Amara Spizzirri; 3rd: HMR MUST BE AFLAME (Must Be Afire x Gwynsciena), H: Jessica Schaeffler, O: Kathryn Bolinger; 4th: GARDI N ANGEL (MA Gallant Ladd x Class of Angels), H: Taryn Lundquist, O: Kotarski Family Trust; 5th: MAGNITUDE VA (MCA Magnum Force x Farica), H: Kaitlin Renner, O: Kaitlin Renner.

Arabian Ladies Side Saddle ATR All Disciplines Championship - Champion: AZA FORCE (Fame VF x Arabay Azaleen), H: Mardi Pauling, O: Mardi Pauling; Reserve: JUSTA HOOT ( Justafire DGL x FSR Barbara), H: Bailey Mirmelli, O: Bailey Mirmelli; 3rd: BROADWAY SHOW (Showkayce x Baskhemos Joy), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; 4th: GARTH MH (Khadraj NA x Dancing Gdynia), H: Amara Spizzirri, O: Amara Spizzirri; 5th: KYRIE ELEISON FF (Revelry x Cataloniya), H: Kaylee Atkinson, O: Marsha Thomas.

Western Pleasure Arabian Western Pleasure Championship - Champion: SONOMA JAZZ (Versace x

Arabian Yearling Colt/Gelding Breeders Sweepstakes Champion SOUL OF MARWAN AS (Marwan Al Shaqab x RD Challs Angel), shown by Sandro Pinha for owner Arabian Soul Partners Ltd. Sonoma Chiffon), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: Laura Stewart; Reserve: SC DON JULIO (Versace x Shams Tiara), H: Brandon Flood, O: Mayree Nolan; 3rd: CHASE THE DREAM (Showkayce x PGN Newyear Zeve), H: Natalie Jones, O: Anita Hill; 4th: A CANEN (Besson Carol x Cannette), H: Chris Culbreth, O: Athala King; 5th: TSAMURAI MAC (Maclintock V x Rohara Ronatta), H: Tamera Bowles, O: Melanie Hughes-Weaver.

Arabian Western Pleasure Junior Horse Championship - Champion: RD HABANERO (Bey Ambition x NW Siena Psyche), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: Barrie Padgham; Reserve: MANHATTAN CF (WH York x Psyches Kontessa), H: Greg Harris, O: Lori Cantero; 3rd: PICANTE JULLYEN V ( Jullyen El Jamaal x Precious V), H: Chris Culbreth, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; 4th: RIO DE MARCEDES KRS (RHR Marcedes x Magnums Jullyette), H: Sandra Owens, O: Rod Owens; 5th: RD KARDERO (Bey Ambition x SA Magic Karma), H: Amanda Borduin, O: Kimberly Gouch.

Arabian Western Pleasure AAOTR 55 & Over Championship - Champion: MIKHAILEYNA PR (BJ Mikhail x *Pokeyna), H: Kathy Shippee, O: Kathy Shippee; Reserve: AZA FORCE (Fame VF x Arabay Azaleen), H: Mardi Pauling, O: Mardi Pauling; 3rd: TWISTAFORTUNE JB (Fausto CRH x Twistafate JB), H: Judy Mittenthal, O: Judy Mittenthal; 4th: HMR MUST BE AFLAME (Must Be Afire x Gwynsciena), H: Kathryn Bolinger, O: Kathryn Bolinger; 5th: VERE VERSACE (Versace x Koulumbia IA), H: Rene Padgham, O: Rene Padgham.

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Arabian 2-Year-Old Filly Champion CHANTILLY LACE ORA (Vitorio TO x Raherra), shown by Alcides Rodrigues for owner Oak Ridge Arabians.

Arabian Western Pleasure AAOTR 36-54 Championship - Champion: TA PRELUDE (Kordelas x Promocja), H: Alison Pigott, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; Reserve: SONOMA JAZZ (Versace x Sonoma Chiffon), H: Laura Stewart, O: Laura Stewart; 3rd: ENVISION A STAR (FGA Wizjon Heir x Atall Bey), H: Ann Whitley, O: Ann Whitley; 4th: DS ABRAZO (CA Hermoso x Miss Adelaide), H: Jason Jones, O: Jason Jones; 5th: UPTOWNS IMAGE (LM Boardwalk x BA Simone), H: A J Ronyak, O: A J Ronyak.

Arabian Western Pleasure AAOTR 19-35 Championship - Champion: TITUS BPA (Meridien ATL x LC Mon Amie), H: Ashley Marie Szczepaniec, O: Ashley Marie Szczepaniec.

Arabian Western Pleasure AATR Championship - Champion: TA PRELUDE (Kordelas x Promocja), H: Alison Pigott, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; Reserve: DS ABRAZO (CA Hermoso x Miss Adelaide), H: Jason Jones, O: Jason Jones; 3rd: ENVISION A STAR (FGA Wizjon Heir x Atall Bey), H: Ann Whitley, O: Ann Whitley; 4th: MIKHAILEYNA PR (BJ Mikhail x *Pokeyna), H: Kathy Shippee, O: Kathy Shippee; 5th: SONOMA JAZZ (Versace x Sonoma Chiffon), H: Laura Stewart, O: Laura Stewart.

Arabian Western Pleasure ATR Select Rider Championship - Champion: TSAMURAI MAC (Maclintock V x Rohara Ronatta), H: Melanie Hughes-Weaver, O: Melanie HughesWeaver; Reserve: LL MAGNUM MAJESTIC (Magnum Psyche x LL Basketura Fame), H: Cynthia Rodgers, O: Cynthia Rodgers; 3rd: MAGNUM CUM LAUDE (Magnum Psyche x

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Arabian Yearling Filly Breeders Sweepstakes Champion PITONISA AS (Ever After NA x Psyches Amber Dream), shown by Sandro Pinha for owner Arabian Soul Partners Ltd.

Arabian Yearling Filly Champion MC VITORIA (Vitorio TO x Angelinaa JD), shown

by David Boggs for owner Oak Ridge Arabians.

Baskvienaa), H: Kimberly Howard, O: Kimberly Howard; 4th: UPTOWNS IMAGE (LM Boardwalk x BA Simone), H: A J Ronyak, O: A J Ronyak; 5th: GARDI N ANGEL (MA Gallant Ladd x Class of Angels), H: Anne Kotarski, O: Kotarski Family Trust.

Arabian Western Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: GARTH MH (Khadraj NA x Dancing Gdynia), H: Amara Spizzirri, O: Amara Spizzirri; Reserve: BROADWAY SHOW (Showkayce x Baskhemos Joy), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; 3rd: MAGNITUDE VA (MCA Magnum Force x Farica), H: Kaitlin Renner, O: Kaitlin Renner; 4th: MASQUERADE PA (Armani PC x Cazsandra), H: Tory Wikel, O: Pegasus Arabians.

Arabian Mare AAOTH Champion WC GODIVA (Gazal Al Shaqab x JE Ali Selene), shown by Amanda Fraser for owner Mark Davis.

Arabian Western Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: JUST TIME ( Justify x NR Minuette), H: Paige Neufeld, O: Paige Neufeld; Reserve: TA GIOVANNI (Kordelas x Gloria AHSB), H: Trentyn Powell, O: Silver Aspen Ranch; 3rd: TA OCALA (Kordelas x Oronka), H: Chase Pullifrone, O: Shannon Pullifrone; 4th: BUENOS AIRES PGA (Khadraj NA x TR Evita), H: Avery Reed, O: Amy Reed.

Arabian Western Pleasure JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: BROADWAY SHOW (Showkayce x Baskhemos Joy), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; Reserve: GARTH MH (Khadraj NA x Dancing Gdynia), H: Amara Spizzirri, O: Amara Spizzirri; 3rd: MAGNITUDE VA (MCA Magnum Force x Farica), H: Kaitlin Renner, O: Kaitlin Renner; 4th: DM ROHARA DON MANUEL (Versace x Echos Patina),

Arabian Mare JTH 18 & Under Champion FADILA PCF (Magnum Chall HVP x F orelady HVP), shown by Tory Wikel for owner Pegasus Arabians.

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Arabian Gelding 3 Years Old & Over Champion REGAL ENCORE CCA (Regal Actor JP x Eloize), shown by Terry Holmes for owner Kathleen Kelly.

Arabian Gelding 2 Years Old Champion JAXOM QF ( Jagger SWF x Marissa Bey SWF), shown

by Michaelle Garden for owner Lori Sheen.

H: Joshua Shino, O: Susan Lefevre-Friedman; 5th: MASQUERADE PA (Armani PC x Cazsandra), H: Tory Wikel, O: Pegasus Arabians.

Arabian Gelding JTH 18 & Under Champion FAM VERMILLION (SF Veraz x OFW Dark Amber), shown by Joshua Shino for owner Carolyn McDonald Shino.

Arabian English Pleasure Champion ROL FIRE LILY (Afire Bey V x Singularcylection), ridden

by Dennis Wigren for owner Judy Mittenthal.

Arabian Western Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: BUENOS AIRES PGA (Khadraj NA x TR Evita), H: Avery Reed, O: Amy Reed; Reserve: JUST TIME ( Justify x NR Minuette), H: Paige Neufeld, O: Paige Neufeld; 3rd: TA GIOVANNI (Kordelas x Gloria AHSB), H: Trentyn Powell, O: Silver Aspen Ranch; 4th: TA OCALA (Kordelas x Oronka), H: Chase Pullifrone, O: Shannon Pullifrone; 5th: HENNESSY ER (GG Jabask x Mandoleen Rain ER), H: Kaitlin Johnson, O: John Elliott.

Hunter Pleasure/Jumper Arabian Hunter Pleasure Championship Champion: BCR MIDNITE COWBOY (Sundance Kid V x Blush BCR), H: Sally Randle, O: Sarah Moor; Reserve: CYLENT LIGHTNING CCA (Cytosk x Bakkaratta), H: Cari Thompson, O: David Morrison; 3rd: AV MAJOR MADRE (Psymadre x SJ Millissa), H: Chris Culbreth, O: Volney Creek Ranch LLC; 4th: BRANDO JCA (Brandon Bey JCA x Fallada), H: Taryn Lundquist, O: Alexandra Claycomb; 5th: KACHINA JUELL V ( Jullyen El Jamaal x Khantina Girl V), H: Cynthia Burkman, O: Talking Waters Ranch.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure Junior Horse Championship - Champion: FVF BUCARRDI (KM Bugatti x Major Primadonna), H: Justin Cowden, O: Thomas Hansen; Reserve: SUN DRIFTER WF (Sundance Kid V x Desert Enchantress), H: Sally Randle, O: Mark Helmick; 3rd: HS EDENS ECLIPSE (Eden C x Kouray), H:

Arabian Gelding 2 Years & Over AAOTH Champion GIOVIALLI XX (MPA Giovanni x MFA Love Ntyme), shown by Margaux Rodrigues for owner Alcides Rodrigues.

Tamera Bowles, O: Gordon Walter; 4th: CANT GET ENOUGH (Baske Afire x CP Shiraz), H: Cynthia Burkman, O: Samantha Hilliard; 5th: SRW DESIGNEDBYBUGATTI (KM Bugatti x Doskatayna V), H: Wendy Potts, O: Kathy Macleay.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 55 & Over Championship - Champion: LA VITA DOLCE (SFA Windfall x Mattafoxx), H: Gail Lundquist, O: Gail Lundquist; Reserve: HEZAFIRE (Robby x Shimmering Flame), H: JoAnn Harlan, O: JoAnn Harlan; 3rd: FVF BUCARRDI (KM Bugatti x Major Primadonna), H: Thomas Hansen, O: Thomas Hansen; 4th: BLUE MOON DANCER ( JDM Rain Dance x Blue Moon LUD), H: Lynda Dubbs, O: Lynda Dubbs; 5th: PROHIBITION SX (Afire Bey V x Philyra), H: Laura Mickelson, O: Laura Mickelson.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 36-54 Championship - Champion: HS EDENS ECLIPSE (Eden C x Kouray), H: Loren Hart, O: Gordon Walter; Reserve: RA I KHARUMBA (Khadraj NA x Gala Tricia), H: Sandra Owens, O: Rod Owens; 3rd: JAKES PIZAZZ ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Alotta Pizzazz IMW), H: Roberta Stevenson, O: Roberta Stevenson; 4th: CANT GET ENOUGH (Baske Afire x CP Shiraz), H: Samantha Hilliard, O: Samantha Hilliard; 5th: CSP TRIBILITY (MHR Nobility x Trifirette), H: Sarah Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 19-35 Championship - Champion: CSP TRIBILITY (MHR Nobility x Trifirette), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; Reserve: ALEJANDRO SF (Georgio AF x Miss Hollywood), H: Jordanna

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Arabian English Pleasure Junior Horse Champion MUST BE LUV (IXL Noble Express x Musamerica), ridden by Jonathan Ramsay for owner Michelle Oliver.

Arabian English Pleasure AAOTR Champion SHOCKED (SF Specs Shocwave x Hollyluya), ridden by Karen Dearth for owner Pine Ridge Arabians.

Johnston, O: Jordanna Johnston; 3rd: CP MARQUIS (Baske Afire x CP Princess), H: Andrew Smith, O: North By Northwest LLC; 4th: WPB IN A VISION (Infenitee x Khissed

by Bahia), H: Vickie Zimmerman, O: Vickie Zimmerman; 5th: PARYS WA (Mariachi WA x Famess N Parys WA), H: Ashley Lauren Toye, O: Ashley Lauren Toye.

Vickie Zimmerman, O: Vickie Zimmerman; Reserve: BRANDO JCA (Brandon Bey JCA x Fallada), H: Alexandra Claycomb, O: Alexandra Claycomb; 3rd: NOBEL VENTURE (The Nobelest x G Calumbine), H: Bailey Ballard, O: Artalee Larsen; 4th: JADA DGL ( Jullyen El Jamaal x Jewel DGL), H: Carrie Hilton, O: William Curtis; 5th: WIND FIRE VO (Honorrs x SFA Wind Chime), H: Melanie Hughes-Weaver, O: Melanie Hughes-Weaver.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure AATR 40 & Over Championship - Champion: CYLENT LIGHTNING CCA (Cytosk x Bakkaratta), H: Candace Berry, O: David Morrison; Reserve: HEZAFIRE (Robby x Shimmering Flame), H: JoAnn Harlan, O: JoAnn Harlan; 3rd: HS EDENS ECLIPSE (Eden C x Kouray), H: Loren Hart, O: Gordon Walter; 4th: CSP TRIBILITY (MHR Nobility x Trifirette), H: Sarah Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; 5th: LA VITA DOLCE (SFA Windfall x Mattafoxx), H: Gail Lundquist, O: Gail Lundquist.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure AATR 19-39 Championship - Champion: WPB IN A VISION (Infenitee x Khissed by Bahia), H: Vickie Zimmerman, O: Vickie Zimmerman; Reserve: ALEJANDRO SF (Georgio AF x Miss Hollywood), H: Jordanna Johnston, O: Jordanna Johnston; 3rd: SUPERNATURAL PR (Basquero PR x Copperbey Berry), H: Alisha Kinney, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; 4th: AINT MISSBEHAVIN (Allionce x Flames Khemotion), H: Carrie Hilton, O: Gary Arney; 5th: AFIRE GODDESS (In The Lineafire x Philyra), H: Devin Galloway, O: Devin Galloway.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure ATR Select Rider Championship - Champion: WPB IN A VISION (Infenitee x Khissed by Bahia), H:

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Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: HP GUNS AND ROSES (Magnum Chall HVP x ETC Cracklin Rosy), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; Reserve: SSINATRA (Shameless x DE Naztravia), H: Kelsey McMahan, O: Kelsey McMahan; 3rd: EVG JULIEUS (Saladins Allon x Bey Julie Anne), H: Megan Reyes, O: Megan Reyes; 4th: BRANDO JCA (Brandon Bey JCA x Fallada), H: Alexandra Claycomb, O: Alexandra Claycomb; 5th: SHAHTEYN (Besson Carol x Shahteyna), H: Darby Deak, O: Darby Deak.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: Sir CHARLES PA (Picazso x Secret Wish), H: Molly Schwanz, O: Molly Schwanz; Reserve: SF PRALINE (Padrons Psyche x BPL Karmel), H: Karli Kelley, O: Kori Lynn Kelley; 3rd: LA TEA DA ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Padronzza), H: Falan Alpert, O: Falan Alpert; 4th: JUSTIFYABLEEE LACE ( Justify x Midnight Lace), H: Emma Freeland, O: Emma Freeland; 5th: MAGNOSABI (Ames Charisma x Iim So Sheik), H: Alexandra Davisson, O: Alexandra Davisson.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: HP GUNS

Arabian English Pleasure JTR 18 & Under Champion NOBLE HUNTER (IXL Noble Express x Hidee Afire), ridden by owner Nicole Larson.

Arabian Country English Pleasure Champion ALLTAIRE AOF (Allionce x Flaring Fire), ridden by James Lowe for owner Hannah Kulik.

Arabian Country English Pleasure Junior Horse Champion VENDETTAA (Mamage x Psi Love U), ridden by James Lowe for owner Beth Jupp.

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Arabian Country English Pleasure AAOTR 40 & Over Champion HOLD YOUR APLOZ (Aploz x Alanis), ridden by owner Jody Jurkens Gates.

Arabian Country English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 Champion ROL CODE RED (Cytosk x Ebonee), ridden by Leanna Vandlen for owner Mary Anna Napier.

AND ROSES (Magnum Chall HVP x ETC Cracklin Rosy), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; Reserve: SSINATRA (Shameless x DE Naztravia), H: Kelsey McMahan, O: Kelsey McMahan; 3rd: EVG GEORGIO (Pershahn El Jamaal x Gwenllian E), H: Allison Cederberg, O: Dru Allison Cederberg; 4th: EVG JULIEUS (Saladins Allon x Bey Julie Anne), H: Megan Reyes, O: Megan Reyes; 5th: NOBEL VENTURE (The Nobelest x G Calumbine), H: Joshua Shino, O: Artalee Larsen.

Arabian Country English Pleasure ATR Select Rider Champion DANA JAMAICA (Baywatch V x Rohara Padrona), ridden by owner D. Kathy Allen.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: SIR CHARLES PA (Picazso x Secret Wish), H: Molly Schwanz, O: Molly Schwanz; Reserve: SF PRALINE (Padrons Psyche x BPL Karmel), H: Karli Kelley, O: Kori Lynn Kelley; 3rd: LA TEA DA ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Padronzza), H: Falan Alpert, O: Falan Alpert; 4th: NOBEL VENTURE (The Nobelest x G Calumbine), H: Vanessa Pedregon, O: Artalee Larsen; 5th: JUSTIFYABLEEE LACE ( Justify x Midnight Lace), H: Emma Freeland, O: Emma Freeland.

Arabian Jumper 1st Jump-Off Championship - Champion: AM ZIPY SHARP SHOOTER (AM Power Raid x AM Zippy Handsom), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Mark Miller.

Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Champion ALLTAIRE AOF (Allionce x Flaring Fire), ridden by owner Hannah Kulik.

Show Hack Arabian English Show Hack Championship - Champion: GRANOBLE D (IXL Noble Express x Gabriella D), H: Susan Shea, O: Mary Lou Jones; Reserve: FIREWALL (Afire Bey V x HL Cotillion), H: Todd Ehret, O: Dennis Miller; 3rd: SCF AATHENA BEY (AA Apollo Bey x Savannah E A), H: Kim Christy, O: Catherine Cole Ferandelli; 4th: O H TOSKAFIREWQ (Afire Bey V x Tosk

Arabian Country English Pleasure AATR Champion TEMPTAFIRE (A Temptation x Cinnamon Afire), ridden by owner Mike Beethe.

Bey), H: Shannon Beethe, O: Barbara Rothman Living Trust; 5th: SF RED ROCK (The Nobelest x Linthas Rose), H: Amanda Borduin, O: Kimberly Gouch.

Arabian English Show Hack AAOTR Championship - Champion: LLC PARKER (Pyro Thyme SA x TC Kharieta), H: Sierra Reyes, O: Sierra Reyes; Reserve: SF RED ROCK (The Nobelest x Linthas Rose), H: Kimberly Gouch, O: Kimberly Gouch.

Arabian English Show Hack JOTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: ALLTAIRE AOF (Allionce x Flaring Fire), H: Hannah Kulik, O: Hannah Kulik; Reserve: DA ATLAS (Triften x Ariaelle), H: Falan Alpert, O: Falan Alpert; 3rd: TOI BASK O H (Toskabi x Tosk Bey), H: Vanessa Pedregon, O: Vanessa Pedregon; 4th: BERRY BERRY WISE (Hucklebey Berry x Lot of Wisdom), H: Brittany Dossi, O: Brittany Dossi.

Arabian English Show Hack JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: GSF OHMY GHAZ (El Ghazi x Crimsonn Bay), H: Annie Willett, O: A & M Arabians LLC; Reserve: GRANOBLE D (IXL Noble Express x Gabriella D), H: Anna Redmond, O: Mary Lou Jones; 3rd: DA ATLAS (Triften x Ariaelle), H: Falan Alpert, O: Falan Alpert; 4th: ALLTAIRE AOF (Allionce x Flaring Fire), H: Hannah Kulik, O: Hannah Kulik; 5th: KYRIE ELEISON FF (Revelry x Cataloniya), H: Kaylee Atkinson, O: Marsha Thomas.

Driving Arabian Pleasure Driving Championship - Champion: DA ELECTRA (SF Specs Shocwave x FA Yours Truly), H: James Lowe, O: Jordan Parr.

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Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under Champion EA YANKEE DOODLE (AA Apollo Bey x EE Msindependence), ridden by Karli Kelley for owner Larry Lease.

Arabian Country Pleasure Driving Championship - Champion: ROL CODE RED (Cytosk x Ebonee), H: Dennis Wigren, O: Mary Anna Napier; Reserve: ROL LADY VICTORIA (IXL Noble Express x Victoria Bay), H: Anna Boylan, O: Gregory Merlo; 3rd: DA BOMBAY SAFIRE (Triften x FM Tanzanite), H: Rene Ramirez, O: Erin Bakkila; 4th: WURLITZER (Triften x Mystic Bey V), H: Shelby Scanlan, O: Deanna Scanlan; 5th: KYRIE ELEISON FF (Revelry x Cataloniya), H: Scott Scheyli, O: Marsha Thomas.

Arabian Country Pleasure Driving ATD Championship - Champion: ROL LADY VICTORIA (IXL Noble Express x Victoria Bay), H: Jordyn Merlo, O: Gregory Merlo; Reserve: ROL CODE RED (Cytosk x Ebonee), H: Mary Anna Napier, O: Mary Anna Napier; 3rd: PR MAXIMUS (Baske Afire x OCT Tassaara), H: Penny Stuart, O: Penny Stuart; 4th: TEMPTAFIRE (A Temptation x Cinnamon Afire), H: Mike Beethe, O: Mike Beethe.

Native Costume Arabian Mounted Native Costume Championship - Champion: GLACIER FIRE (Baske Afire x Snow Fly), H: Jenna Neufeld, O: Neufeld Family Trust; Reserve: OPIE TAYLOR (LJM Encore x Yesterdays Song), H: Kristen Clark, O: Kristen Clark.

Arabian Mounted Native Costume ATR Championship - Champion: BAD BADLEROYBROWN (Afire Bey V x Evita Padron), H: Mary Mag Wilson, O: Dazzo Arabians; Reserve: DA ATLAS (Triften x Ariaelle), H: Falan Alpert, O: Falan Alpert; 3rd: SF RED ROCK (The Nobelest x Linthas Rose), H: Kimberly Gouch, O: Kimberly Gouch; 4th: GLACIER FIRE (Baske Afire 20 •

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Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 Champion WURLITZER (Triften x Mystic Bey V), ridden by Shelby Scanlan for owner Deanna Scanlan.

Arabian Park Horse Champion DA ELECTRA (SF Specs Shocwave x FA Yours Truly), ridden by James Lowe for owner Jordan Parr.

x Snow Fly), H: Jenna Neufeld, O: Neufeld Family Trust; 5th: OPIE TAYLOR (LJM Encore x Yesterdays Song), H: Kristen Clark, O: Kristen Clark.

Reining Arabian Reining Horse Championship Champion: IM THE REAL DEAL (MHR Muscateal x Kheyarraberribey V), H: Crystal McNutt, O: Audrey Zinke; Reserve: RA LANAI (Khadraj NA x Sablefire), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: Rene Padgham; 3rd: TA GALLIPOLI (Kordelas x Gloria), H: Keith Tracy, O: Jennifer Hardy; 4th: AM SUNLIT SWIRL (AM Gypsy Vision x AM Dreamtime Girl), H: Crystal McNutt, O: Olivia Hedley; 5th: SALTY JOHN (GS Khochise x Shezn Uptown Girl), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: Gail Genzel.

Arabian Park Horse ATR Champion NOBLE HUNTER (IXL Noble Express x Hidee Afire), ridden by owner Nicole Larson.

Arabian Reining Junior Horse Championship - Champion: AM STAR OFTHE SEA (AM Good Oldboy x Carmel-bythe-Sea), H: Crystal McNutt, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; Reserve: VALLEJO BEAUTIFUL MOON (Rohara Moon Storm x Callejo Buckleup), H: Crystal McNutt, O: Vallejo III Ranch, LLC; 3rd: MR UNIVERCE (Another Hero x Foxxie Lady), H: Tyson Randle, O: Cheryl Nelson; 4th: AM MAGESTIC DEAN (Almarah Mr Dream x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Crystal McNutt, O: Bazy Tankersley.

Arabian Reining Horse AAOTR Championship - Champion: SMOKIN GUNS (Blew By You x Class of Angels), H: David Thielman, O: David Thielman; Reserve: CH STARSNSTRIPES (America V x Cinders N Sparks), H: Ingrid Bentzen, O: Ingrid Bentzen; 3rd: RA LANAI (Khadraj NA x Sablefire), H: Rene Padgham, O: Rene Padgham; 4th: HM

Arabian Ladies Side Saddle English Champion JUSTIFYABLEEE LACE ( Justify x Midnight Lace), ridden by Cheryl Fletcher for owner Emma Freeland.

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Arabian Ladies Side Saddle Western Champion CHASE THE DREAM (Showkayce x PGN Newyear Zeve), ridden by Natalie Jones for owner Anita Hill.

Arabian Ladies Side Saddle ATR All Disciplines Champion AZA FORCE (Fame VF x Arabay Azaleen), ridden by owner Mardi Pauling.

PHANDANGO (Poirot x Ballet Girl), H: Mary Jo Henry, O: Mary Jo Henry; 5th: SALTY JOHN (GS Khochise x Shezn Uptown Girl), H: Gail Genzel, O: Gail Genzel.

Arabian Western Pleasure Junior Horse Champion RD HABANERO (Bey Ambition x NW Siena Psyche), ridden by LaRae Fletcher Powell for owner Barrie Padgham.

Arabian Western Pleasure AAOTR 55 & Over Champion MIKHAILEYNA PR (BJ Mikhail x *Pokeyna), ridden by owner Kathy Shippee.

Arabian Reining Horse ATR Limit Rider Championship - Champion: RA LANAI (Khadraj NA x Sablefire), H: Rene Padgham, O: Rene Padgham; Reserve: TA GALLIPOLI (Kordelas x Gloria), H: Jennifer Hardy, O: Jennifer Hardy; 3rd: TAMAR JUSTICE FOR ALL (Mais Shah x SC Flirtation), H: Laura Stewart, O: Laura Stewart; 4th: SALTY JOHN (GS Khochise x Shezn Uptown Girl), H: Gail Genzel, O: Gail Genzel; 5th: SMOKIN GUNS (Blew By You x Class of Angels), H: Shirley Thielman, O: David Thielman.

Arabian Reining Horse JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: TA GIOVANNI (Kordelas x Gloria AHSB), H: Trentyn Powell, O: Silver Aspen Ranch; Reserve: AM PRINCE OF TEXAS (AM Good Oldboy x AM Warrior Princess), H: Karli Kelley, O: Karli Kelley; 3rd: JUST N STYLE (Black N Style x Bint Myraa), H: Wyatt Wilms, O: Victoria West Granberry.

Trail Arabian Western Trail Horse Championship - Champion: BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Susan Wheeler; Reserve: MILLENNIUM FALCON (SV Basksko x Callistaa), H: Christine Kellner Searle, O: Kathleen Flaherty; 3rd: MARCO NA (Sir Fames HBV x EA Miracle), H: Kathy Bast, O: Hannah Baca; 4th: SAMBUCCA RAVES (Rave VF x Princess Huck V), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: Maria Danieli Krueger; 5th: RDR POWER PLAY (Enrilo x Peptyka), H: Jessica Bein, O: Winnifred Furman.

Arabian Western Pleasure Champion SONOMA JAZZ (Versace x Sonoma Chiffon), ridden by LaRae Fletcher Powell for owner Laura Stewart.

Arabian Western Trail Horse Junior Horse Championship - Champion: CADILLAC KHOWBOY (TA Khalil x Tsparklin Jewel), H: Jessica Bein, O: Jessica Bein; Reserve: BELLA PALOMA (KM Bugatti x Paloma of Rohan), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Ann Campbell.

Arabian Western Trail Horse AATR Championship - Champion: MARCO NA (Sir Fames HBV x EA Miracle), H: Patricia Hoye, O: Hannah Baca; Reserve: MILLENNIUM FALCON (SV Basksko x Callistaa), H: Kathleen Flaherty, O: Kathleen Flaherty; 3rd: CHICAGO CHAPS RS ( Jullyen El Jamaal x SC Chipawa Chinks), H: Nan Walden, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; 4th: CH STARSNSTRIPES (America V x Cinders N Sparks), H: Ingrid Bentzen, O: Ingrid Bentzen; 5th: BENEDITO BEY SMA (Brandon Bey JCA x Onapar), H: Richard Walden, O: Rancho Sonado LLC. Arabian Western Trail Horse Green Horse Championship - Champion: CA AFLAME OF FIRE (Flame Ison x Shez Mi Toi), H: Lou Roper, O: James Callan; Reserve: CADILLAC KHOWBOY (TA Khalil x Tsparklin Jewel), H: Jessica Bein, O: Jessica Bein; 3rd: ZAZUL (Mazkarade x Zafirah JM), H: Anita Dublin, O: Debby McDonald: 4th: BELLA PALOMA (KM Bugatti x Paloma of Rohan), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Ann Campbell.

Arabian Western Trail Horse JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), H: Wyatt Wilms, O: Susan Wheeler; Reserve: KM TUSCANY (Majestic Bey x Lady Tornado), H: Kaylee Atkinson, O: Christi Mattson.

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Arabian Western Pleasure AAOTR 36-54 and AATR Champion TA PRELUDE (Kordelas x Promocja), ridden by Alison Pigott for owner Highland Pride Arabians, Inc. EA Miracle), H: Kathy Bast, O: Hannah Baca; Reserve: KM TUSCANY (Majestic Bey x Lady Tornado), H: Scott Scheyli, O: Christi Mattson; 3rd: MILLENNIUM FALCON (SV Basksko x Callistaa), H: Christine Kellner Searle, O: Kathleen Flaherty.

Arabian English Trail Horse ATR Championship - Champion: MARCO NA (Sir Fames HBV x EA Miracle), H: Patricia Hoye, O: Hannah Baca; Reserve: KM TUSCANY (Majestic Bey x Lady Tornado), H: Kaylee Atkinson, O: Christi Mattson; 3rd: MILLENNIUM FALCON (SV Basksko x Callistaa), H: Kathleen Flaherty, O: Kathleen Flaherty.

Hunter Hack/Regular Working/ Green/Modif ied Arabian Hunter Hack Championship Champion: AL MARAH SWIFT (Al-Marah Quebec x Reem Al Fala), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; Reserve: ST SHAAMROCK (Khadraj NA x Al-Rooh Taghreed), H: Anna Filleti, O: Fred and Jean Filleti Family Trust; 3rd: ENVITATION ONLY (Allience x Eldara), H: Denise Krause, O: Miki Couchoud.

Arabian Hunter Hack Junior Horse Championship - Champion: AL-MARAH JESSICA (Bremervale Andronicus x Reem Al Fala), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC. Arabian Hunter Hack JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: DM PROVIDANCE (Promotion x BB Belle V), H: Kathryn Doyle, O: Kathryn Doyle; Reserve: AM ZIPY SHARP SHOOTER (AM Power Raid x AM Zippy Handsom), H: Tyler Holiday Hardin, O: Mark Miller; 3rd: AM STYLISH 22 •

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Arabian Western Pleasure AAOTR 19-35 Champion TITUS BPA (Meridien ATL x LC Mon Amie), ridden by owner Ashley Marie Szczepaniec.

Arabian Western Pleasure ATR Select Rider Champion TSAMURAI MAC (Maclintock V x Rohara Ronatta), ridden by owner Melanie Hughes-Weaver.

CELEBRITY (AM Michael Love x AM Smiling Dream), H: Emma Kosmeder, O: Emma Kosmeder.

Arabian Regular Working Hunter Championship - Champion: AL MARAH SWIFT (Al-Marah Quebec x Reem Al Fala), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; Reserve: ST SHAAMROCK (Khadraj NA x Al-Rooh Taghreed), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Fred and Jean Filleti Family Trust.

Arabian Regular Working Hunter JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: AM ZIPY SHARP SHOOTER (AM Power Raid x AM Zippy Handsom), H: Tyler Holiday Hardin, O: Mark Miller; Reserve: DM PROVIDANCE (Promotion x BB Belle V), H: Kathryn Doyle, O: Kathryn Doyle.

Arabian Western Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Champion GARTH MH (Khadraj NA x Dancing Gdynia), ridden by owner Amara Spizzirri.

Arabian Green Working Hunter Championship - Champion: SCARLETT JAMAAL BFS (Mazkarade x Juliana El Jamaal BF), H: Kristin Hardin, O: David Bishop; Reserve: AL-MARAH JESSICA (Bremervale Andronicus x Reem Al Fala), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 3rd: ST SHAAMROCK (Khadraj NA x Al-Rooh Taghreed), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Fred and Jean Filleti Family Trust.

Arabian Modified Hunter ATR Championship - Champion: AM ZIPY SHARP SHOOTER (AM Power Raid x AM Zippy Handsom), H: Tyler Holiday Hardin, O: Mark Miller.

Reined/Working Cow Arabian Limited Reined Cow Horse ATR Championship - Champion: CH STARSNSTRIPES (America V x Cinders N Sparks), H: Ingrid Bentzen, O: Ingrid Bentzen;

Arabian Western Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Champion JUST TIME ( Justify x NR Minuette), ridden by owner Paige Neufeld.

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Arabian Western Pleasure JTR 14-18 Champion BROADWAY SHOW (Showkayce x Baskhemos Joy), ridden by Sarah Esqueda for owner Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.

Arabian Western Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Champion BUENOS AIRES PGA (Khadraj NA x TR Evita), ridden by Avery Reed for owner Amy Reed.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure Champion BCR MIDNITE COWBOY (Sundance Kid V x Blush BCR),ridden by Sally Randle for owner Sarah Moor.

Reserve: CADILLAC KHOWBOY (TA Khalil x Tsparklin Jewel), H: Victoria Roe, O: Jessica Bein.

Arabian Herd Work Championship Champion: BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), H: Wyatt Wilms, O: Susan Wheeler; Reserve: BSJ GOOD AS GOLD (AM Good Oldboy x Gai Patina), H: Stacey Turner, O: Stacey Turner.

Arabian Working Cow Horse Championship - Champion: BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Susan Wheeler; Reserve: MAXIUM (Magnum Forty Four x Sahtarah), H: April Canavan, O: Francisco Rangel.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure Junior Horse Champion FVF BUCARRDI (KM Bugatti x Major Primadonna), ridden by Justin Cowden for owner Thomas Hansen.

Cutting/Herd Arabian Cutting Horse Open Championship - Champion: HF GAMAAR RAY (Sonseray x WH Spruce Marga), H: John Dublin, O: Anita Dublin; Reserve: BSJ GOOD TO GO (AM Good Oldboy x Gai Patina), H: Stacey Turner, O: Stacey Turner; 3rd: AM SHAHRAZAD (AM Good Oldboy x Veselka Luv To Polka), H: Navid Kharrazi, O: Navid Kharrazi; 4th: TRICK R TREAT (MA Gallant Ladd x Class of Angels), H: Wesley Larkin, O: Madelena Camacho-Larkin; 5th: BSJ GOOD N READY (AM Good Oldboy x Gai Patina), H: Stacey Turner, O: Stacey Turner.

Arabian Cutting Horse Non-Pro Championship - Champion: BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), H: Wyatt Wilms, O: Susan Wheeler; Reserve: AM SHAHRAZAD (AM Good Oldboy x Veselka Luv To Polka), H: Navid Kharrazi, O: Navid Kharrazi.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 55 & Over Champion LA VITA DOLCE (SFA Windfall x Mattafoxx), ridden by owner Gail Lundquist.

Arabian Cutting Horse $5,000 Novice Horse Championship - Champion: BSJ GOOD TO GO (AM Good Oldboy x Gai Patina), H: Stacey Turner, O: Stacey Turner; Reserve: BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Susan Wheeler; 3rd: BSJ GOOD N READY (AM Good Oldboy x Gai Patina), H: Stacey Turner, O: Stacey Turner.

Half-Arabian Halter Mares HA/AA Mares Saddle/Pleasure Type 2 Years & Over Championship - Champion: SIERRA NEVADA WPE (Nevada TBA x Geena Davis), H: Terry Holmes, O: John Ames; Reserve: BASKE AFIRES PRINCESS (Baske Afire x Globetrotting Princess), H: Arianna Louise Andre, O: Lisa Giordano Andre.

HA/AA Mares Stock/Hunter Type 2 Years & Over Championship - Champion: HAUTE OFF AFIRE (Baske Afire x Haute Off The Press), H: Carson Ehret, O: Steven Gonzales; Reserve: COUNT ME IN FF (Magnum Psyche x PF Just Peachy Keen), H: Rodolfo Guzzo, O: J. Perry Perkins.

HA/AA Yearling Filly Breeders Sweepstakes Championship - Champion: THREE TIMES ALADY FF (Aria Impresario x PF Just Peachy Keen), H: Rodolfo Guzzo, O: J. Perry Perkins.

HA/AA Mares Saddle/Pleasure Type AOTH Championship - Champion: SIERRA NEVADA WPE (Nevada TBA x Geena Davis), H: Lara Ames, O: John Ames; Reserve: BASKE AFIRES PRINCESS (Baske Afire x Globetrotting Princess), H: Arianna Louise Andre, O: Lisa Giordano Andre.

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Arabian Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 36-54 Champion HS EDENS ECLIPSE (Eden C x Kouray), ridden by Loren Hart for owner Gordon Walter.

Geldings HA/AA Geldings Saddle/Pleasure Type 2 Years & Over Championship - Champion: APOLLO DE VALENTINO (DA Valentino x The Merchant’s Sweetheart), H: Paul Glans, O: Paul Glans; Reserve: ROL IN THE FASTLANE (Cytosk x Should Have Asked Her Faster), H: Dennis Wigren, O: RO Lervick Arabians.

HA/AA Geldings Stock/Hunter Type 2 Years & Over Championship - Champion: GIAAKOBBE (MPA Giovanni x RA Zips Tranquility), H: Joao Rodrigues, O: Jason Gales; Reserve: TFA DESERT STORM (TFA Zimsinferno x Deserts Golden Flower), H: Brandon Flood, O: Mayree Nolan.

HA/AA Yearling Colts/Geldings Breeders Sweepstakes Championship - Champion: REMEMBER THE NYTE RMA (Vitorio TO x CF Mamies Night Out), H: Alcides Rodrigues, O: Melissa Subjeck; Reserve: EAST DOES IT FF (Eccentric Valentino x PF Just Peachy Keen), H: Rodolfo Guzzo, O: J. Perry Perkins.

HA/AA Geldings Saddle/Pleasure Type AOTH Championship - Champion: APOLLO DE VALENTINO (DA Valentino x The Merchant’s Sweetheart), H: Paul Glans, O: Paul Glans; Reserve: THE BIG DANCE (NDL Flashdance x Callaway’s Lyric), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc. HA/AA Geldings Stock/Hunter Type AOTH Championship - Champion: GIAAKOBBE (MPA Giovanni x RA Zips Tranquility), H: Jason Gales, O: Jason Gales.

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Arabian Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 19-35 Champion CSP TRIBILITY (MHR Nobility x Trifirette), ridden by owner Hillary Boothe.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure AATR 40 & Over Champion CYLENT LIGHTNING CCA (Cytosk x Bakkaratta), ridden by Candace Berry for owner David Morrison.

Half-Arabian Performance English Pleasure HA/AA English Pleasure Championship Champion: MEAN MACHINE PF (Baske Afire x Lady Machine), H: Carol Willett, O: Double U Ranch LC; Reserve: AMERICAS NXT TOPMODEL (The Nobelest x Western Cabernet), H: Shannon Beethe, O: Mike Beethe; 3rd: GOOMBAY SMASH (AA Apollo Bey x Out Trot ‘Em), H: Rene Ramirez, O: Penny Stuart; 4th: FINAL JUSTICE MM ( Justafire DGL x FSR Final Cheers), H: Anna Boylan, O: Anna Boylan.

HA/AA English Pleasure AAOTR Championship - Champion: NOBLE VISION (Afires Vision x T Fantafox), H: Renee Rodgers, O: Renee Rodgers; Reserve: AMERICAS NXT TOPMODEL (The Nobelest x Western Cabernet), H: Mike Beethe, O: Mike Beethe; 3rd: NOBLE KINGG (IXL Noble Express x Where’s The Queen), H: Corey Fitzgerald, O: Willie L Jr. & Carolyn R. Fitzgerald Living Trust.

HA/AA English Pleasure JOTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: MAMA MIA LOA (Mamage x My Lucky Day), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; Reserve: APPROPO (Apollopalooza x Sendrini M), H: Bailey Wikel, O: Pegasus Arabians; 3rd: CAJUN PRINCEOF MONACO (Monaco x Djazyra HCF), H: Kaitlyn Ruonavaara, O: Wendy Ruonavaara; 4th: BLACK ICE WP ( J Krews x Manhaitan’s Sixpence Starr), H: Isabella Marino, O: Isabella Marino.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure AATR 19-39 ATR Select Rider Champion WPB IN A VISION (Infenitee x Khissed by Bahia), ridden by owner Vickie Zimmerman.

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR and JTR 14-18 Champion HP GUNS AND ROSES (Magnum Chall HVP x ETC Cracklin Rosy), ridden by Sarah Esqueda for owner Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.

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Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under Champion SIR CHARLES PA (Picazso x Secret Wish), ridden by owner Molly Schwanz.

Arabian English Show Hack Champion GRANOBLE D (IXL Noble Express x Gabriella D), ridden by Susan Shea for owner Mary Lou Jones.

HA/AA English Pleasure JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: APPROPO (Apollopalooza x Sendrini M), H: Bailey Wikel, O: Pegasus Arabians; Reserve: MAMA MIA LOA (Mamage x My Lucky Day), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; 3rd: CAJUN PRINCEOF MONACO (Monaco x Djazyra HCF), H: Kaitlyn Ruonavaara, O: Wendy Ruonavaara; 4th: MR SAXOBEAT (Harlem Superior x Calysta), H: Deserae Stanerson, O: Christi Mattson; 5th: BLACK ICE WP ( J Krews x Manhaitan’s Sixpence Starr), H: Isabella Marino, O: Isabella Marino.

Arabian English Show Hack JOTR 18 & Under Champion ALLTAIRE AOF (Allionce x Flaring Fire), ridden by owner Hannah Kulik.

Arabian English Show Hack JTR 18 & Under Champion GSF OHMY GHAZ (El Ghazi x Crimsonn Bay), ridden by Annie Willett for owner A & M Arabians LLC.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure Championship - Champion: JMJ GOLD N FIZZ (Scrimmage x Nonchalant), H: Shannon Beethe, O: Mike Beethe; Reserve: SUGAR MOUNTAIN (Baske Afire x Kelly Le Brock), H: Brandon Flood, O: Mayree Nolan; 3rd: RH GLADIATOR (Mamage x Lakeview’s Savoir Faire), H: Dennis Wigren, O: Debra Smith; 4th: DELTAS DELIGHT MF (Baske Afire x Pinekrest Delta Force), H: Rene Ramirez, O: Pamela Remus; 5th: NOT GUILTY LOA (Meistermind x Guilty Pleasure), H: Claudia Fuller, O: Koehring LLC. HA/AA Country English Pleasure Junior Horse Championship - Champion: JSN MOMBASA (Baske Afire x Drive Me Crazy), H: Gary Dearth, O: Pine Ridge Arabians; Reserve: ROL IN THE FASTLANE (Cytosk x Should Have Asked Her Faster), H: Dennis Wigren, O: RO Lervick Arabians; 3rd: NOBLE REVELATION BPA (IXL Noble Express x Shes All That), H: Chris Culbreth, O: Amber Collier; 4th: MAGNETIC EFFECT VCP (Magnifier x Coyote Ugly), H: Jonathan Ramsay, O: Shelley Lyden; 5th: BL POINT BREAK

Arabian English Show Hack AAOTR Champion LLC PARKER (Pyro Thyme SA x TC Kharieta), ridden by owner Sierra Reyes.

(Sir William Robert x Sunz Comin Up), H: James Lowe, O: Miles Reiter.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure AAOTR 40 & Over Championship - Champion: JMJ GOLD N FIZZ (Scrimmage x Nonchalant), H: Mike Beethe, O: Mike Beethe; Reserve: TC MATADOR (Zodiac Matador x Love Me Love Me Not), H: Diane Allen, O: Diane Allen; 3rd: JS WINE N ROSES (SV Basksko x Commander’s Wine), H: Suzanne CochranGallahan, O: Judith Cochran; 4th: ROCK ON BA (Promotion x Stage Fright), H: Dawn Labertew, O: Dawn Labertew; 5th: MAXAMILLIANN (Afire Bey V x Sultan’s Mainshine), H: Suzette Johnson, O: Suzette Johnson.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 Championship - Champion: WORTH A FIRE (Baske Afire x Galexina), H: Emily Maita, O: Emily Maita; Reserve: FAME DTC (CT Azeem Malik x Mon Cher Fame), H: Sierra Reyes, O: Sierra Reyes; 3rd: NOBLE REVELATION BPA (IXL Noble Express x Shes All That), H: Amber Collier, O: Amber Collier; 4th: YOU GLOW GIRL ( Justafire DGL x Ring of Fire BM), H: Auriel OverallIsaman, O: Auriel Overall-Isaman.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure AATR Championship - Champion: ELEGANT EXPRESSION (Afire Bey V x Express Yourself ), H: Barbara Rothman, O: Barbara Rothman Living Trust; Reserve: TC MATADOR (Zodiac Matador x Love Me Love Me Not), H: Diane Allen, O: Diane Allen; 3rd: WORTH A FIRE (Baske Afire x Galexina), H: Emily Maita, O: Emily Maita; 4th: FAME DTC (CT Azeem Malik x Mon Cher Fame),

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Arabian Pleasure Driving Champion DA ELECTRA (SF Specs Shocwave x FA Yours Truly), driven by James Lowe for owner Jordan Parr.

Arabian Country Pleasure Driving Champion ROL CODE RED (Cytosk x Ebonee), driven by Dennis Wigren for owner Mary Anna Napier.

H: Sierra Reyes, O: Sierra Reyes; 5th: POP ROCKS (Baske Afire x Precisely Poppy), H: Erin Henehan, O: Erin Henehan.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: VICTIM OF LOVE (Sir William Robert x River Dance NA), H: Jordan Parr, O: Jordan Parr; Reserve: PENELOPE KREWSE (Krewe x Sultan’s Final Dawn), H: Nicole Krueger, O: Nicole Krueger; 3rd: MR BOMBASTIC (Clout x LA Quintina), H: Lauren Aguilera, O: Lauren Aguilera; 4th: CORONA PE (Afires Heir x Urona), H: Tory Wikel, O: Pegasus Arabians; 5th: DA CHILL FACTOR (Triften x Chills and Thrills), H: Holly Savage, O: Holly Savage.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure ATR Select Rider Championship - Champion: ROCK ON BA (Promotion x Stage Fright), H: Dawn Labertew, O: Dawn Labertew; Reserve: MAXAMILLIANN (Afire Bey V x Sultan’s Mainshine), H: Phil Flemming, O: Suzette Johnson; 3rd: POP ROCKS (Baske Afire x Precisely Poppy), H: Erin Henehan, O: Erin Henehan; 4th: JS DUTCH CHOCOLATE (Majesteit x RV Crystal Bey), H: Penny Stuart, O: Penny Stuart; 5th: THE SITUATION (Sir William Robert x Afire Love VF), H: Devin Galloway, O: Carolyn McDonald Shino.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: VICTIM OF LOVE (Sir William Robert x River Dance NA), H: Jordan Parr, O: Jordan Parr; Reserve: THE SITUATION (Sir William Robert x Afire Love VF), H: Joshua Shino, O: Carolyn McDonald Shino; 3rd: MR BOMBASTIC (Clout x LA Quintina), H: Lauren Aguilera, O: Lauren Aguilera; 4th: FABULAIRE (Afire Bey V x Money’s Stellar Performer), H: Annie Willett, O: A & M Arabians LLC; 5th: CORONA PE (Afires Heir x Urona), H: Tory Wikel, O: Pegasus Arabians.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: GHORGIA PEACH VVF (Mr Gazi x Pearl), H: Bailey Bostwick, O: Bailey Bostwick; Reserve: FRIDAY NITE LIGHTS (CA Para Dice Nite x Beaukay Bey), H: Lacey Brown, O: Lacey Brown.

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HA/AA Country English Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: DREAM OF LOVE (Baske Afire x Spartan’s Silk Stockings), H: Brianna Chamberlain, O: Maya Kahwaji; Reserve: GHORGIA PEACH VVF (Mr Gazi x Pearl), H: Bailey Bostwick, O: Bailey Bostwick; 3rd: VSH MICHAELANGELO (Majesteit x VT Duette), H: Taylor McAdams, O: Mckenna Marshall; 4th: BLACKJACK LOA (Krewe x Billie Valentine), H: Alexa Tiziani, O: Nchakha Moloi.

Park HA/AA Park Horse Championship Champion: HALSTEADS DEVEN (Ariberry Bey V x Halsteads Devon), H: Michelle PeasePaulsen, O: Michelle Pease-Paulsen; Reserve: SS Boy GENIUS (TBO Beyboy Bask x Wild and Lovely PH), H: Joshua Shino, O: Penny Stuart; 3rd: HS IAM THE WARRIOR (Nigo x MMA Baghazi), H: Brandon Flood, O: Mayree Nolan; 4th: GOOMBAY SMASH (AA Apollo Bey x Out Trot ‘Em), H: Rene Ramirez, O: Penny Stuart.

Arabian Country Pleasure Driving ATD Champion ROL LADY VICTORIA (IXL Noble Express x Victoria Bay), driven by Jordyn Merlo for owner Gregory Merlo.

Arabian Mounted Native Costume Champion GLACIER FIRE (Baske Afire x Snow Fly), ridden by Jenna Neufeld for owner Neufeld Family Trust.

Arabian Mounted Native Costume ATR Champion BAD BADLEROYBROWN (Afire Bey V x Evita Padron), ridden by Mary Mag Wilson for owner Dazzo Arabians.

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Arabian Reining Horse AAOTR Champion SMOKIN GUNS (Blew By You x Class of Angels), ridden by owner David Thielman.

Arabian Western Trail Horse Junior Horse Champion CADILLAC KHOWBOY (TA Khalil x Tsparklin Jewel), ridden by owner Jessica Bein.

Arabian Reining Horse ATR Limit Rider Champion RA LANAI (Khadraj NA x Sablefire), ridden by owner Rene Padgham.

Side Saddle HA/AA Ladies Side Saddle English Championship - Champion: KOHLMINER (RA Hot Every Nite x Orriya), H: Debra Smith, O: Debra Smith; Reserve: SPRING BREAK LOA (Millennium LOA x Sultan’s Daybreak), H: Alisha Kinney, O: Alisha Kinney; 3rd: POP ROCKS (Baske Afire x Precisely Poppy), H: Wendy Potts, O: Erin Henehan; 4th: WCF ELI (Zodiac Matador x Refina), H: Jaime Smith, O: Rainwater Insurance, Inc.; 5th: TRILOGIE TABASCO (The Color of Fame x AH Cayenne), H: Teana Long, O: Teana Long.

HA/AA Ladies Side Saddle Western Championship - Champion: CAPT JACK SPARROW PGA (Starof Fame V x Peppys Dainty Queen), H: Danielle Stock, O: Remington Monroe Equine LLC; Reserve: ALADA GOLD (Alada Baskin x Moonlight An Ice), H: Cari Thompson, O: Jennifer Hardy; 3rd: CALAMITY JANE BY JAKE ( Jake Jamaal JCA x XX Cantarina), H: Devin Miller, O: Roberta Stevenson; 4th: IMAGINE FAME (The Color of Fame x Sunhi Ddanncer), H: Shannon Beethe, O: Susan Mekeel; 5th: STARS AND STRIPES SF (Allionces Knight x Starry Spumoni), H: Sarah Shawcroft, O: Rancho Sonado LLC.

Arabian Western Trail Horse AATR and English Trail Horse ATR Champion MARCO NA (Sir Fames HBV x EA Miracle), ridden by Patricia Hoye for owner Hannah Baca.

HA/AA Ladies Side Saddle All Disciplines ATR Championship - Champion: KOHLMINER (RA Hot Every Nite x Orriya), H: Debra Smith, O: Debra Smith; Reserve: MR BOMBASTIC (Clout x LA Quintina), H: Lauren Aguilera, O: Lauren Aguilera; 3rd: SPRING BREAK LOA (Millennium LOA x Sultan’s Daybreak), H: Alisha Kinney, O: Alisha Kinney; 4th: KHARHARTT PGA (Khadraj NA x Peppys Dainty Queen), H: Pat Ronyak, O:

Arabian Western Trail Horse Champion BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), ridden by Jeffrey Wilms for owner Susan Wheeler.

Pat Ronyak; 5th: YES SIR EEE BOB (O Key Dough Key x SX Celisse), H: Molly Madden, O: Molly Madden.

Western Pleasure HA/AA Western Pleasure Championship Champion: CAPT JACK SPARROW PGA (Starof Fame V x Peppys Dainty Queen), H: Greg Harris, O: Remington Monroe Equine LLC; Reserve: KERSPLASH PR (SJ Mikhail x Gradie), H: Gary Dearth, O: Pine Ridge Arabians; 3rd: ETERNAL ELEGANCE GF (Eternety x Copper Elegance), H: Carolyn McDonald Shino, O: Neufeld Family Trust; 4th: JAKES LIL SECRET CB ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Alada Secrets), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: Laura Stewart; 5th: TFA DESERT STORM (TFA Zimsinferno x Deserts Golden Flower), H: Brandon Flood, O: Mayree Nolan.

HA/AA Western Pleasure Junior Horse Championship - Champion: KEEPIN SECRETS CB (Khaberet PGA x Alada Secrets), H: Natalie Jones, O: Cynthia Burkman; Reserve: LIVIN ON LOVE CB ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Shania Twain), H: Devin Miller, O: Jason Jones; 3rd: DR DUNNS AND ROSES (Were Dun x DR Cherish Me), H: Laurie Martin, O: Kelly Bowden; 4th: DIONEA PA (Enzo x Donatella Versace), H: Robert Long, O: Cynthia Rodgers, 5th: KHOWBOY UP J (Khadraj NA x Tobasco), H: Gail Lundquist, O: Rene Ramirez.

HA/AA Western Pleasure AAOTR 55 & Over Championship - Champion: KHARHARTT PGA (Khadraj NA x Peppys Dainty Queen), H: Pat Ronyak, O: Pat Ronyak; Reserve: JS LEMON MERINGUE (Vanilla Zip x Mi Serrenata), H: JoAnn Harlan, O: JoAnn Harlan; 3rd: EVA ABC (Metal of Honour

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Arabian Western Trail Horse Green Horse Champion CA AFLAME OF FIRE (Flame Ison x Shez Mi Toi), ridden by Lou Roper for owner James Callan.

Arabian Western Trail Horse JTR 18 & Under Champion BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), ridden by Wyatt Wilms for owner Susan Wheeler.

x Sierra Starview), H: Claudia Roberts, O: Claudia Roberts; 4th: MJD CSOLID GOLD (MJD Cuervo Gold x Sonoma Tasha), H: Ross McDonald, O: Carolyn McDonald Shino; 5th: HS PRETTY CLARA BOW (Psytation EA x Clare D Loon), H: Sara Sherman Glaser, O: Sara Sherman Glaser.

Mike Beethe, O: Callan Blackburn; 3rd: LIVIN ON LOVE CB ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Shania Twain), H: Jason Jones, O: Jason Jones; 4th: SLOW GIN FIZZ (Half Shot x Cyrkowka), H: Chelsea Cantero, O: Lori Cantero; 5th: RUMOR HAS IT BC (Santa Fe V x TR Moondrops), H: Ryan Dunn, O: Ryan Dunn.

HA/AA Western Pleasure AAOTR 36-54 Championship - Champion: LUCKY WISH (Lucky Sol Moon x Wisdoms Wish), H: Mike Beethe, O: Callan Blackburn; Reserve: KERSPLASH PR (SJ Mikhail x Gradie), H: Karen Dearth, O: Pine Ridge Arabians; 3rd: BSF STARBUCK (Were Dun x Escada MF), H: Michelle Pease-Paulsen, O: Michelle PeasePaulsen; 4th: QUEN UP A MOONSTORM (Rohara Moon Storm x Misty Dee McCue), H: Linda Hart-Goldsmith, O: Linda HartGoldsmith; 5th: CALAMITY JANE BY JAKE ( Jake Jamaal JCA x XX Cantarina), H: Roberta Stevenson, O: Roberta Stevenson.

HA/AA Western Pleasure ATR Select Rider Championship - Champion: EVA ABC (Metal of Honour x Sierra Starview), H: Claudia Roberts, O: Claudia Roberts; Reserve: JD CSOLID GOLD (MJD Cuervo Gold x Sonoma Tasha), H: Ross McDonald, O: Carolyn McDonald Shino; 3rd: BSF GITTER DUN (Were Dun x Zerrette), H: Shirley Thielman, O: David Thielman; 4th: SF PASSIONATE KISSES (HK Prokan x Springtime Victory), H: Gabby Napoli, O: Mary Campbell; 5th: I M ZEE ONE (Zee Mega Bucks x Justa Peppys Cowgirl), H: Kelly Bowden, O: Kelly Bowden.

HA/AA Western Pleasure AAOTR 19-35 Championship - Champion: RUMOR HAS IT BC (Santa Fe V x TR Moondrops), H: Ryan Dunn, O: Ryan Dunn; Reserve: DIONEA PA (Enzo x Donatella Versace), H: Gena Rodgers, O: Cynthia Rodgers; 3rd: HOLLYWOOD KRISPYKREME (Hollywood White x Foxxie Lady), H: Ashley Marie Szczepaniec, O: Ashley Marie Szczepaniec; 4th: DR DUNNS AND ROSES (Were Dun x DR Cherish Me), H: Kelly Bowden, O: Kelly Bowden.

HA/AA Western Pleasure AATR Championship - Champion: KHARHARTT PGA (Khadraj NA x Peppys Dainty Queen), H: Pat Ronyak, O: Pat Ronyak; Reserve: LUCKY WISH (Lucky Sol Moon x Wisdoms Wish), H:

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Arabian Working Cow Horse Champion BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), ridden by Jeffrey Wilms for owner Susan Wheeler.

Arabian Cutting Horse Non-Pro and Arabian Herd Work Champion BASKE THYME SA (Pryme Thyme x Kailabaska), ridden by Wyatt Wilms for owner Susan Wheeler.

HA/AA Western Pleasure JOTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: FLASH GORDEN (Unquestionablyhot x SDA Razzle Dazzle), H: Paige Neufeld, O: Paige Neufeld; Reserve: WA HOLLYWOOD SPOTS (Tackitts Mr Magic x My Krystal Rose), H: Kaitlin Harris, O: Kaitlin Harris; 3rd: ETERNAL ELEGANCE GF (Eternety x Copper Elegance), H: Jenna Neufeld, O: Neufeld Family Trust.

HA/AA Western Pleasure JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: FLASH GORDEN (Unquestionablyhot x SDA Razzle Dazzle), H: Jenna Neufeld, O: Paige Neufeld; Reserve: LIVIN ON LOVE CB ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Shania Twain), H: Kori Lynn Kelley, O: Jason Jones; 3rd: ETERNAL ELEGANCE GF

HA/AA Mare Saddle/Pleasure Type 2 Years & Over Champion SIERRA NEVADA WPE (Nevada TBA x Geena Davis), shown by Terry Holmes for owner John Ames.

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HA/AA Mare Stock/Hunter Type 2 Years & Over Champion HAUTE OFF AFIRE (Baske Afire x Haute Off The Press), shown by Carson Ehret for owner Steven Gonzales.

HA/AA Yearling Filly Breeders Sweepstakes Champion THREE TIMES ALADY FF (Aria Impresario x PF Just Peachy Keen), shown by Rodolfo Guzzo for owner J. Perry Perkins.

(Eternety x Copper Elegance), H: Joshua Shino, O: Neufeld Family Trust; 4th: DIONEA PA (Enzo x Donatella Versace), H: Teana Long, O: Cynthia Rodgers; 5th: WA HOLLYWOOD SPOTS (Tackitts Mr Magic x My Krystal Rose), H: Kaitlin Harris, O: Kaitlin Harris.

HA/AA Gelding Saddle/Pleasure Type 2 Years & Over and AOTH Champion APOLLO DE VALENTINO (DA Valentino x The Merchant’s Sweetheart), shown by owner Paul Glans.

HA/AA Gelding Stock/Hunter Type 2 Years & Over Champion GIAAKOBBE (MPA Giovanni x RA Zips Tranquility), shown by Joao Rodrigues for owner Jason Gales.

Hunter Pleasure/Jumper HA/AA Hunter Pleasure Championship - Champion: WD NOBLE LADD (IXL Noble Express x Gifted JG), H: Wendy Potts, O: Audrey Zinke; Reserve: SS JACK DANIELS (Standing Room Only x Jordanelle), H: Sally Randle, O: Shea Urgitus; 3rd: ITS A CELEBRATION (Its Sshow Time x Ramona’s Scarlett), H: Cynthia Burkman, O: Anita Hill; 4th: RHR CAMPUS KING (Versace x VF Campus Queen), H: Cheryl Fletcher, O: Barrie Padgham; 5th: MARQUIS DE BEY (BA Bey Elation x Elegant Ellie), H: Tamera Bowles, O: Danielle Chuchran.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure Junior Horse Championship - Champion: WC ALI NIGHT LONG (WC Ali Gazal x Sassys Night Out HM), H: Wendy Potts, O: Holly Woods Dillin; Reserve: ROL DOUBLE DARE (Cytosk x Doubletrees Keeping Secrets), H: Kim Christy, O: Vickie Zimmerman; 3rd: BLACK LABEL CCR (Loki x SRC Lady In Red), H: Justin Cowden, O: David Berry; 4th: WC IMAGINE THAT (Brandon Bey JCA x CT Pina Colada), H: Nestor Gonzalez, O: Lynne Olson; 5th: MOMENTUM LPR (Majesteit x Monaquita), H: Jonathan Ramsay, O: Long Point Ranch.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 40 & Over Championship - Champion: IRRESISTIBLE (Take Heart x Sing For Joy), H: Cher Redmond,

HA/AA Mare Saddle/Pleasure Type AOTH Champion SIERRA NEVADA WPE (Nevada TBA x Geena Davis), shown by Lara Ames for owner John Ames.

O: Cher Redmond; Reserve: WCF ELI (Zodiac Matador x Refina), H: Susan Rainwater, O: Rainwater Insurance, Inc.; 3rd: VDS RAJA (MJG Piqueno Scotch x VDS Overlook Amore), H: Jacqueline Suleiman, O: Jacqueline Suleiman; 4th: PERPETUAL MOTION IWF (Psyncopation x DR Sheza Lady), H: Dawn Labertew, O: Dawn Labertew; 5th: SF ITS A MIRAKEL (Rico x CF Windsock), H: Debra Smith, O: Debra Smith.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 Championship - Champion: SPRING BREAK LOA (Millennium LOA x Sultan’s Daybreak), H: Alisha Kinney, O: Alisha Kinney; Reserve: VIVIENNE LR (Knight Invader x KJ Déjà vu), H: Andrew Smith, O: North

By Northwest LLC; 3rd: GENTLEMANS QUARTERLY (Couturier x BP Lyrica Bey), H: Leanna Vandlen, O: Leanna Vandlen; 4th: GOTALOTAFFIRE (Afriendly Fire x CDlassicala), H: Gena Rodgers, O: Gena Rodgers; 5th: CHANCE TO JAM (CWP Chances Are x She Be Jammin), H: Ashley Lauren Toye, O: Ashley Lauren Toye.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure AATR Championship - Champion: SPRING BREAK LOA (Millennium LOA x Sultan’s Daybreak), H: Alisha Kinney, O: Alisha Kinney; Reserve: VIVIENNE LR (Knight Invader x KJ Déjà vu), H: Andrew Smith, O: North By Northwest LLC; 3rd: KNIGHTTS JEWEL (Knight Invader x Desertt Passion), H: Lindsay Smith, O: North By Northwest LLC; 4th: CHANCE TO JAM (CWP Chances Are x She Be Jammin), H: Ashley Lauren Toye, O: Ashley Lauren Toye; 5th: SS JACK DANIELS (Standing Room Only x Jordanelle), H: Shea Urgitus, O: Shea Urgitus.

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HA/AA Yearling Colt/Gelding Breeders Sweepstakes Champion REMEMBER THE NYTE RMA (Vitorio TO x CF Mamies Night Out), shown by Alcides Rodrigues for owner Melissa Subjeck.

HA/AA Gelding Stock/Hunter Type AOTH Champion GIAAKOBBE (MPA Giovanni x RA Zips Tranquility), shown by owner Jason Gales.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure ATR Select Rider Championship - Champion: ROL DOUBLE DARE (Cytosk x Doubletrees Keeping Secrets), H: Vickie Zimmerman, O: Vickie Zimmerman; Reserve: IRRESISTIBLE (Take Heart x Sing For Joy), H: Madison Schwanz, O: Cher Redmond; 3rd: WV MAJOR MAJOR (DS Major Afire x M Starlite), H: Patti Scheier, O: Randi Preiser; 4th: KISS MY CHIPS (HF Mister Chips x KF Runaround Sioux), H: Bonnie Gratzl, O: Jennifer Ziehl; 5th: REYDAR DDS (GR Psyches Rey x DDA Fames Victory), H: Valerie Fishgold, O: Valerie Fishgold.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: BIG TIME DDA (Its Sshow Time x Ramona’s Scarlett), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; Reserve: GOTALOTAFFIRE (Afriendly Fire x Classicala), H: Teana Long, O: Gena Rodgers; 3rd: YES SIR EEE BOB (O Key Dough Key x SX Celisse), H: Molly Madden, O: Molly Madden; 4th: WV MAJOR MAJOR (DS Major Afire x M Starlite), H: Joshua Shino, O: Randi Preiser; 5th: ITS A CELEBRATION (Its Sshow Time x Ramona’s Scarlett), H: Alexandra Claycomb, O: Anita Hill.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: BIG TIME DDA (Its Sshow Time x Ramona’s Scarlett), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; Reserve: JOYRIDE SF (Afire Bey V x Kelly Le Brock), H: Caitlin Pigott, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; 3rd: TRILOGIE TABASCO (The Color of Fame x AH Cayenne), H: Teana Long, O: Teana Long; 4th: VITALITY PE (Armani FC x Rommy), H: Nika Cornell, O: Maria Cornell; 5th: YES SIR EEE BOB (O Key Dough Key x SX Celisse), H: Molly Madden, O: Molly Madden.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: HE BE JEEBIE ( Justify x She Be Afire), H: Kori Lynn Kelley, O: Kori Lynn Kelley; Reserve: BELLA FLEUR (NYN Hisani x Sweet Chariot), H: Nina Leonard, O: Patricia DeAtley; 3rd: MANERO SF (Georgio AF x Brooklynn), H: Alexandra Davisson, O: Culbreth Equine Training & Management; 4th: MARTTINI (Hucklebey Berry x Sultans Mainshine), H: Cate Wondrasek, O: Cate Wondrasek; 5th: SR LORD OF THE RINGS (SR Ultimate x Queen of the Ring), H: Kaitlyn Taylor, O: Kaitlyn Taylor.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: HE BE JEEBIE ( Justify x She Be Afire), H: Natalie Jones, O: Kori Lynn Kelley; Reserve: FLASH GORDEN (Unquestionablyhot x SDA Razzle Dazzle), H: Paige Neufeld, O: Paige Neufeld; 3rd: WV MAJOR MAJOR (DS Major Afire x M Starlite), H: Vanessa Pedregon, O: Randi Preiser; 4th: MARTTINI (Hucklebey Berry x Sultans Mainshine), H: Cate Wondrasek, O: Cate Wondrasek; 5th: TKS SPOT OF CHAMPAGNE (Spotacular Fame x Vintage Champagne), H: Erin Riley, O: Erin Riley.

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HA/AA English Pleasure Champion MEAN MACHINE PF (Baske Afire x Lady Machine), ridden by Carol Willett for owner Double U Ranch LC.

HA/AA English Pleasure AAOTR Champion NOBLE VISION (Afires Vision x T Fantafox), ridden by owner Renee Rodgers.

HA/AA Jumper 1st Jump Off Championship - Champion: WINSLOW RS (Welcome S x Impatense), H: Toah Hatch, O: Kendall Brookhart; Reserve: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Ashley Wren, O: Ashley Wren.

HA/AA Jumper ATR 1st Jump Off Championship - Champion: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren.

HA/AA English Pleasure JOTR 18 & Under Champion MAMA MIA LOA (Mamage x My Lucky Day), ridden by Sarah Esqueda for owner Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.

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HA/AA English Pleasure JTR 18 & Under Champion APPROPO (Apollopalooza x Sendrini M), ridden by Bailey Wikel for owner Pegasus Arabians.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure AAOTR 40 & Over Champion JMJ GOLD N FIZZ (Scrimmage x Nonchalant), ridden by owner Mike Beethe.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 Champion WORTH A FIRE (Baske Afire x Galexina), ridden by owner Emily Maita.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure Champion JMJ GOLD N FIZZ (Scrimmage x Nonchalant), ridden by Shannon Beethe for owner Mike Beethe.

Show Hack HA/AA English Show Hack Championship - Champion: DREAM OF LOVE (Baske Afire x Spartan’s Silk Stockings), H: Taryn Lundquist, O: Maya Kahwaji; Reserve: PENELOPE KREWSE (Krewe x Sultan’s Final Dawn), H: James Lowe, O: Nicole Krueger; 3rd: NOBLE REVELATION BPA (IXL Noble Express x Shes All That), H: Chris Culbreth, O: Amber Collier; 4th: FABULAIRE (Afire Bey V x Money’s Stellar Performer), H: Annie Willett, O: A & M Arabians LLC; 5th: PRINCE LOA (Krewe x Sultans Final Dawn), H: Michelle PeasePaulsen, O: L. David Pease.

HA/AA English Show Hack AAOTR Championship - Champion: HALSTEADS DEVEN (Ariberry Bey V x Halsteads Devon), H: Michelle Pease-Paulsen, O: Michelle PeasePaulsen; Reserve: FAME DTC (CT Azeem Malik x Mon Cher Fame), H: Sierra Reyes, O: Sierra Reyes; 3rd: JB SURFS UP (Baske Afire x Petite Sweet), H: Emily Maita, O: Emily Maita; 4th: SKYY KING (Baske Afire x PF Lady Cameo), H: Jody Jurkens Gates, O: Jody Jurkens Gates; 5th: KOHLMINER (RA Hot Every Nite x Orriya), H: Debra Smith, O: Debra Smith.

HA/AA English Show Hack JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: DREAM OF LOVE (Baske Afire x Spartan’s Silk Stockings), H: Brianna Chamberlain, O: Maya Kahwaji; Reserve: MR BOMBASTIC (Clout x LA Quintina), H: Lauren Aguilera, O: Lauren Aguilera; 3rd: PARIS HILTON PE (MHR Nobility x Pauletta B), H: Amanda Burns, O: Amanda Burns; 4th: GHORGIA PEACh VVF (Mr Gazi x Pearl), H: Bailey Bostwick, O:

HA/AA Country English Pleasure Junior Horse Champion JSN MOMBASA (Baske Afire x Drive Me Crazy), ridden by Gary Dearth for owner Pine Ridge Arabians.

Bailey Bostwick; 5th: BLACK TIE AFFAIRE (Apollopalooza x Reindance FSF), H: Samantha Landsman, O: Samantha Landsman.

Driving HA/AA Pleasure Driving Championship - Champion: GOOMBAY SMASH (AA Apollo Bey x Out Trot ‘Em), H: Rene Ramirez, O: Penny Stuart.

HA/AA Country Pleasure Driving Championship - Champion: VICTIM OF LOVE (Sir William Robert x River Dance NA), H: James Lowe, O: Jordan Parr; Reserve: RH GLADIATOR (Mamage x Lakeview’s Savoir Faire), H: Dennis Wigren, O: Debra Smith; 3rd: DELTAS DELIGHT MF (Baske Afire x Pinekrest Delta Force), H: Rene Ramirez, O: Pamela Remus.

HA/AA Country Pleasure Driving ATD Championship - Champion: TC MATADOR (Zodiac Matador x Love Me Love Me Not), H: Diane Allen, O: Diane Allen; Reserve: DELTAS DELIGHT MF (Baske Afire x Pinekrest Delta Force), H: Pamela Remus, O: Pamela Remus.

Native Costume HA/AA Mounted Native Costume Championship - Champion: LLC ROYAL FLUSH (Orlando x Malenia), H: Amanda Borduin, O: Kelli Bradley; Reserve: FIRE STORM GM (Cease Fire x Chase The Clouds), H: Kaylee Atkinson, O: Christi Mattson; 3rd: BLACK TIE AFFAIRE (Apollopalooza x Reindance FSF), H: Samantha Landsman, O: Samantha Landsman; 4th: MR SAXOBEAT (Harlem Superior x Calysta), H: Scott Scheyli, O: Christi Mattson.

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HA/AA Country English Pleasure AATR Champion ELEGANT EXPRESSION (Afire Bey V x Express Yourself ), ridden by Barbara Rothman of Barbara Rothman Living Trust.

HA/AA Mounted Native Costume ATR Championship - Champion: PRINCE LOA (Krewe x Sultans Final Dawn), H: Michelle Pease-Paulsen, O: L. David Pease; Reserve: THE BIG DANCE (NDL Flashdance x Callaway’s Lyric), H: Sarah Esqueda, O: Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.; 3rd: BLACKJACK LOA (Krewe x Billie Valentine), H: Amanda Burns, O: Nchakha Moloi; 4th: MR SAXOBEAT (Harlem Superior x Calysta), H: Deserae Stanerson, O: Christi Mattson; 5th: BASKE AFIRES Princess (Baske Afire x Globetrotting Princess), H: Lisa Giordano Andre, O: Lisa Giordano Andre.

Reining HA/AA Reining Horse Championship Champion: SH KARLOTTA (Buenos Partee Dude x Sage Hill Karla), H: Jessica Bein, O: Rosethorn Trust; Reserve: BLACK JACK JERRY (Black Jack Olena x Sage Hill Karla), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: David Thielman; 3rd: BSF GITTER DUN (Were Dun x Zerrette), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: David Thielman; 4th: BSF STARBUCK (Were Dun x Escada MF), H: LaRae Fletcher Powell, O: Michelle Pease-Paulsen; 5th: TR BRACE FOR IMPACK ( Jaborrs Impack x Oakachic), H: Keith Tracy, O: Lauren Bailey-Pollard.

HA/AA Reining Junior Horse Championship - Champion: WERE DUN JOHNNY (Were Dun x BSF Fiona), H: Crystal McNutt, O: Susan Lefevre-Friedman; Reserve: BJ SPOOKS LIL GUN (Spooks Gotta Gun x Czars Fire Bug), H: Tyson Randle, O: Michelle DeRoche; 3rd: A HAIL STORM EWA (Shine Like Hail x Valarita), H: Tyson Randle, O: Maria Danieli Krueger; 4th: PAF HIT MAN (Like A Diamond x PAF ToHotToHandle), H:

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HA/AA Country English Pleasure ATR Select Rider Champion ROCK ON BA (Promotion x Stage Fright), ridden by owner Dawn Labertew.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 14-18 Champion VICTIM OF LOVE (Sir William Robert x River Dance NA), ridden by owner Jordan Parr.

Crystal McNutt, O: Auriel Overall-Isaman; 5th: SMALL TOWN LEGEND (Custom Legend x WBA Lucinda), H: Keith Tracy, O: Keith Tracy.

HA/AA Reining Horse AAOTR Championship - Champion: A HAIL STORM EWA (Shine Like Hail x Valarita), H: Maria Danieli Krueger, O: Maria Danieli Krueger; Reserve: HH IN LIVING COLOR (Tucknicolor x Khabreah), H: Megan Callan, O: James Callan; 3rd: BSF STARBUCK (Were Dun x Escada MF), H: Michelle Pease-Paulsen, O: Michelle Pease-Paulsen; 4th: BLACK JACK JERRY (Black Jack Olena x Sage Hill Karla), H: David Thielman, O: David Thielman; 5th: CHASING MY BUCKS (Zee Mega Bucks x Tucker E Chex), H: Ingrid Bentzen, O: Ingrid Bentzen.

HA/AA Reining Horse ATR Limit Rider Championship - Champion: WHAT BAR TONITE (What It Takes x Bar Time Karen), H: Julie May, O: Julie May; Reserve: GOOD TIME TO TAKE (What It Takes x A Good Time In Texas), H: Jennifer Hardy, O: Jennifer Hardy; 3rd: DM BUCKLE UP (The Creme of the Crop x Pentadora), H: Thiago Moraes, O: Thiago Moraes; 4th: LITTLE BIT OF BOOM (Boomernicker x Quais Habibi), H: Catherine Cole Ferandelli, O: Catherine Cole Ferandelli; 5th: BLACK JACK JERRY (Black Jack Olena x Sage Hill Karla), H: Shirley Thielman, O: David Thielman.

HA/AA Reining Horse JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: TR SKID MARK (Zee Mega Bucks x Chics Flip), H: Kori Lynn Kelley, O: Larry Lease; Reserve: WIMPYS LITTLE CAT (Wimpys Little Step x Scat Cat), H: Victoria Roe, O: Victoria

HA/AA Country English Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Champion GHORGIA PEACH VVF (Mr Gazi x Pearl), ridden by owner Bailey Bostwick.

HA/AA Country English Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Champion DREAM OF LOVE (Baske Afire x Spartan’s Silk Stockings), ridden by Brianna Chamberlain for owner Maya Kahwaji.

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HA/AA Park Horse Champion HALSTEADS DEVEN (Ariberry Bey V x Halsteads Devon), ridden by owner Michelle Pease-Paulsen.

HA/AA Ladies Side Saddle English and All Disciplines ATR Champion KOHLMINER (RA Hot Every Nite x Orriya), ridden by owner Debra Smith.

Roe; 3rd: KHAARGA ESCOBAR SLIK (Kharga Asal Sukkar x Beckie), H: Victoria Roe, O: Jessica Bein; 4th: MISS MAXIMUS (HH Maxemus x She Dun Slid), H: Karli Kelley, O: Larry Lease.

HA/AA Western Pleasure Champion CAPT JACK SPARROW PGA (Starof Fame V x Peppys Dainty Queen), ridden by Greg Harris for owner Remington Monroe Equine LLC.

Trail HA/AA Western Trail Horse Championship - Champion: IM DESTINEES HOBBY (Como Chex Hobby x Oasis Destinee), H: Jessica Bein, O: Jessica Bein; Reserve: AM HITCHTOA STAR (CKA Sea Biscuit x AM Sum Witch), H: Christine Kellner Searle, O: Kathleen Flaherty; 3rd: RCC FRIAR TUCK (Cashmere MA x Lil Red Riding Hood), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Robyn Meyer; 4th: SR KIST

BY FIRE (Set Fire x RH Sunkist Honey), H: Amanda Borduin, O: Kimberly Gouch; 5th: RILEY DE ECHO (Second Echo x Just Like Dee Dee), H: Joy Reed, O: Valerie Fishgold.

HA/AA Western Trail Horse Junior Horse Championship - Champion: RCC FRIAR TUCK (Cashmere MA x Lil Red Riding Hood), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Robyn Meyer; Reserve: CLC ANGELO MIO (Alada Baskin I x Far Out Angel), H: Jessica Bein, O: Catherine Cole Ferandelli.

HA/AA Western Pleasure Junior Horse Champion KEEPIN SECRETS CB (Khaberet PGA x Alada Secrets), ridden by Natalie Jones for owner Cynthia Burkman.

HA/AA Western Trail Horse AATR Championship - Champion: MTN UNIQUE (RG Al Mone x Addicted To Love), H: Michelle Roberts, O: Carol Roberts; Reserve: AM HITCHTOA STAR (CKA Sea Biscuit x AM Sum Witch), H: Kathleen Flaherty, O: Kathleen Flaherty; 3rd: STARS AND STRIPES SF (Allionces Knight x Starry Spumoni), H: Nan Walden, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; 4th: SR KIST BY FIRE (Set Fire x RH Sunkist Honey), H: Kimberly Gouch, O:

HA/AA Ladies Side Saddle Western Champion CAPT JACK SPARROW PGA (Starof Fame V x Peppys Dainty Queen), ridden by Danielle Stock for owner Remington Monroe Equine LLC. Kimberly Gouch; 5th: RCC FRIAR TUCK (Cashmere MA x Lil Red Riding Hood), H: Robyn Meyer, O: Robyn Meyer.

HA/AA Western Trail Horse Green Horse Championship - Champion: KHAARGA ESCOBAR SLIK (Kharga Asal Sukkar x Beckie), H: Jessica Bein, O: Jessica Bein; Reserve: SR KIST BY FIRE (Set Fire x RH Sunkist Honey), H: Amanda Borduin, O: Kimberly Gouch; 3rd: INTEREST ONLY (Bud The Teaser x Zucharita), H: Joy Reed, O: Kotarski Family Trust; 4th: CLC ANGELO MIO (Alada Baskin I x Far Out Angel), H: Jessica Bein, O: Catherine Cole Ferandelli; 5th: IMA PAINTED CHINOCHIC (Ima Painted Fritz x SHF Figment), H: Joy Reed, O: Darbi Hand.

HA/AA Western Trail Horse JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: IM DESTINEES HOBBY (Como Chex Hobby x Oasis Destinee), H: Victoria Roe, O: Jessica Bein; Reserve: WIMPYS LITTLE CAT (Wimpys Little Step x Scat Cat), H: Victoria Roe, O: Victoria Roe; 3rd: THE BUCK STOPS HERE (Cat Man Dooley x Bookra Gentry), H: Kaylee Atkinson, O: Christi Mattson; 4th: SF PASSIONATE KISSES (HK Prokan x Springtime Victory), H: Gabby Napoli, O: Mary Campbell.

HA/AA English Trail Horse Championship - Champion: THE BUCK STOPS HERE (Cat Man Dooley x Bookra Gentry), H: Scott Scheyli, O: Christi Mattson; Reserve: WIMPYS LITTLE CAT (Wimpys Little Step x Scat Cat), H: Jessica Bein, O: Victoria Roe; 3rd: STARS AND STRIPES SF (Allionces Knight x Starry Spumoni), H: Courtney Spicer, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; 4th: TWYLITE ZONE

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HA/AA Western Pleasure AAOTR 55 & Over and AATR Champion KHARHARTT PGA (Khadraj NA x Peppys Dainty Queen), ridden by owner Pat Ronyak.

(Basic Four x JB Dos Jalapenas), H: Jessica Bein, O: Valerie Arend; 5th: CLC ANGELO MIO (Alada Baskin I x Far Out Angel), H: Jessica Bein, O: Catherine Cole Ferandelli.

HA/AA English Trail Horse ATR Championship - Champion: STARS AND STRIPES SF (Allionces Knight x Starry Spumoni), H: Nan Walden, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; Reserve: TKS SPOT OF CHAMPAGNE (Spotacular Fame x Vintage Champagne), H: Erin Riley, O: Erin Riley.

Hunter Hack/Regular Working/ Green/Modif ied HA/AA Hunter Hack Championship Champion: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren; Reserve: ZIPPY KI YAY (Tezmar Bey x Zip N Slide DT), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Cathy Griffin; 3rd: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Ashley Wren, O: Ashley Wren; 4th: NF MISS SCARLETT SLEW (Ara x APM Starr Struckk), H: Denise Krause, O: Marian Conrad LaLonde; 5th: BEST ADVICE CCR (SJ Mikhail x Featuring Ms Paige), H: Erin Pickett, O: Erin Pickett.

HA/AA Hunter Hack Junior Horse Championship - Champion: SAFARI AF (Taste Afire x Butterfly’s Kentucky Rose), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Lisa Burkhardt.

HA/AA Hunter Hack AATR Championship - Champion: NF MISS SCARLETT SLEW (Ara x APM Starr Struckk), H: Marian Conrad LaLonde, O: Marian Conrad LaLonde.

HA/AA Hunter Hack JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: MBE VERSACE

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HA/AA Western Pleasure AAOTR 36 -54 Champion LUCKY WISH (Lucky Sol Moon x Wisdoms Wish), ridden by Mike Beethe for owner Callan Blackburn.

HA/AA Western Pleasure AAOTR 19-35 Champion RUMOR HAS IT BC (Santa Fe V x TR Moondrops), ridden by owner Ryan Dunn.

(Eld Willy Bob x Jemini Christmas), H: Kelley Long, O: Jackie Alkin; Reserve: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren; 3rd: KHARBEN COLOR (Tucknicolor x PZs Kharben Kiss), H: Anna Redmond, O: Wolf Springs Ranches, Inc.; 4th: BEST ADVICE CCR (SJ Mikhail x Featuring Ms Paige), H: Erin Pickett, O: Erin Pickett; 5th: SUNOVAGUN (Showgun PGN x Gidget), H: Zacko Hardin, O: Kristin Hardin.

HA/AA Regular Working Hunter Championship - Champion: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Ashley Wren, O: Ashley Wren; Reserve: NF MISS SCARLETT SLEW (Ara x APM Starr Struckk), H: Denise Krause, O: Marian Conrad LaLonde.

HA/AA Western Pleasure ATR Select Rider Champion EVA ABC (Metal of Honour x Sierra Starview), ridden by owner Claudia Roberts.

HA/AA Regular Working Hunter AATR Championship - Champion: NF MISS SCARLETT SLEW (Ara x APM Starr Struckk), H: Marian Conrad LaLonde, O: Marian Conrad LaLonde.

HA/AA Regular Working Hunter JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren; Reserve: MBE VERSACE (Eld Willy Bob x Jemini Christmas), H: Kelley Long, O: Jackie Alkin; 3rd: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren.

HA/AA Green Working Hunter Championship - Champion: ZIPPY KI YAY (Tezmar Bey x Zip N Slide DT), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Cathy Griffin; Reserve: ZIP TO MY LU (Tezmar Bey x Zip N Slide DT), H:

HA/AA Western Pleasure JOTR 18 & Under Champion FLASH GORDEN (Unquestionablyhot x SDA Razzle Dazzle), ridden by owner Paige Neufeld.

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HA/AA Western Pleasure JTR 18 & Under Champion FLASH GORDEN (Unquestionablyhot x SDA Razzle Dazzle), ridden by Jenna Neufeld for owner Paige Neufeld.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure Champion WD NOBLE LADD (IXL Noble Express x Gifted JG), ridden by Wendy Potts for owner Audrey Zinke.

Kristin Hardin, O: Cathy Griffin; 3rd: SAFARI AF (Taste Afire x Butterfly’s Kentucky Rose), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Lisa Burkhardt; 4th: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Ashley Wren, O: Ashley Wren.

HA/AA Modified Hunter ATR Championship - Champion: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren; Reserve: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren; 3rd: BEST ADVICE CCR (SJ Mikhail x Featuring Ms Paige), H: Erin Pickett, O: Erin Pickett.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 40 & Over Champion IRRESISTIBLE (Take Heart x Sing For Joy), ridden by owner Cher Redmond.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure AAOTR 19-39 and AATR Champion SPRING BREAK LOA (Millennium LOA x Sultan’s Daybreak), ridden by owner Alisha Kinney.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure Junior Horse Champion WC ALI NIGHT LONG (WC Ali Gazal x Sassys Night Out HM), ridden by Wendy Potts for owner Holly Woods Dillin.

HA/AA Working Cow Horse Championship Champion: COCO POLENE (Shahcolate Bey MA x Hema), H: Andy Camacho, O: Madelena Camacho-Larkin; Reserve: CC RIVAL (Mister Cayanne x AJ Dioressence), H: John Dublin, O: Michelle Roberts.

HA/AA Working Cow Horse ATR Championship - Champion: CC RIVAL (Mister Cayanne x AJ Dioressence), H: Michelle Roberts, O: Michelle Roberts; Reserve: TR DUN THIS DUN THAT (Hollywood Dun It x Lahabeebe), H: Harold Green, O: Evergreen Arabians.

Reined/Working Cow HA/AA Reined Cow Horse Championship - Champion: WIMPYS LITTLE CAT (Wimpys Little Step x Scat Cat), H: Jessica Bein, O: Victoria Roe; Reserve: TWYLITE ZONE (Basic Four x JB Dos Jalapenas), H: Jessica Bein, O: Valerie Arend.

Cutting/Herd HA/AA Cutting Horse Open Championship - Champion: WILL HE BOOGY (Fantastiko x Sterlings Gold Lace), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Robyn Meyer; Reserve: SHINY BUTTONS (Goodtime Shine x Buttonns and Bows), H: Amy Wilms, O: Wilms Family Revocable Trust.

HA/AA Reined Cow Horse ATR Championship - Champion: SMART LITTLE ALEX (The Smart Smoke x HF Farena), H: Michelle Roberts, O: Carol Roberts.

HA/AA Cutting Horse Non-Pro Championship - Champion: WILL HE BOOGY (Fantastiko x Sterlings Gold Lace), H: Robyn Meyer, O: Robyn Meyer.

HA/AA Limited Reined Cow Horse ATR Championship - Champion: CHASING MY BUCKS (Zee Mega Bucks x Tucker E Chex), H: Ingrid Bentzen, O: Ingrid Bentzen; Reserve: WIMPYS LITTLE CAT (Wimpys Little Step x Scat Cat), H: Victoria Roe, O: Victoria Roe; 3rd: TR DUN THIS DUN THAT (Hollywood Dun It x Lahabeebe), H: Harold Green, O: Evergreen Arabians; 4th: JSN REIN MAN (Boss Solano x Chuzelle), H: Carol Roberts, O: Carol Roberts.

HA/AA Cutting Horse $5,000 Novice Horse Championship - Champion: SHINY BUTTONS (Goodtime Shine x Buttonns and Bows), H: Amy Wilms, O: Wilms Family Revocable Trust; Reserve: WILL HE BOOGY (Fantastiko x Sterlings Gold Lace), H: Jeffrey Wilms, O: Robyn Meyer; 3rd: SMOKIN AMBIANCE (The Smart Smoke x HF Farena), H: John Dublin, O: Carol Roberts.

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HA/AA Hunter Pleasure ATR Select Rider Champion ROL DOUBLE DARE (Cytosk x Doubletrees Keeping Secrets), ridden by owner Vickie Zimmerman.

HA/AA Herd Work Championship Champion: COCO POLENE (Shahcolate Bey MA x Hema), H: Andy Camacho, O: Madelena Camacho-Larkin; Reserve: SIN DERELLA WP (Trick R Treat x Rockys Filly), H: Andy Camacho, O: Andy Camacho; 3rd: TR IT TAKES GRIT (What It Takes x Zza Zza Lena), H: Kit Hall, O: Kit Hall.

Showmanship/ Horsemanship Halter Showmanship AATH Championship - Champion: Queen Of Hearts LA (Ole Patche Rock x Hearts Desyre), H: DEVIN GALLOWAY, O: Devin Galloway; Reserve: BSF Starbuck (Were Dun x Escada MF), H: MICHELLE PEASE-PAULSEN, O: Michelle Pease-Paulsen; 3rd: You Glow Girl ( Justafire DGL x Ring of Fire BM), H: AURIEL OVERALL-ISAMAN, O: Auriel OverallIsaman; 4th: Madonna V (Desperado V x Moska), H: AMY KENNEY, O: Susan Witte; 5th: JS Protocol (SV Basksko x Like Me), H: ASHLEY MARIE SZCZEPANIEC, O: Ashley Marie Szczepaniec.

Youth Halter Showmanship JTH 14-18 Championship - Champion: Queen Of Hearts LA (Ole Patche Rock x Hearts Desyre), H: JOSHUA SHINO, O: Devin Galloway; Reserve: Yes Sir Eee Bob (O Key Dough Key x SX Celisse), H: MOLLY MADDEN, O: Molly Madden; 3rd: PAF Venice Beach (Robisabi x Laguna Beach), H: DESERAE STANERSON, O: Rexanne Darnell; 4th: Khaarga Escobar Slik (Kharga Asal Sukkar x Beckie), H: TEANA LONG, O: Jessica Bein; 5th: NF Just Dew It (Tezmar Bey x EC Parfait), H: CHRISTY SIMS, O: Christy Sims.

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HA/AA Hunter Pleasure JOTR and JTR 14-18 Champion BIG TIME DDA (Its Sshow Time x Ramona’s Scarlett), ridden by Sarah Esqueda for owner Highland Pride Arabians, Inc.

HA/AA Hunter Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under Champion HE BE JEEBIE ( Justify x She Be Afire), ridden by Natalie Jones for owner Kori Lynn Kelley.

Youth Halter Showmanship JTH 11-13 Championship - Champion: Eva ABC (Metal of Honour x Sierra Starview), H: VANESSA PEDREGON, O: Claudia Roberts; Reserve: Queen Of Hearts LA (Ole Patche Rock x Hearts Desyre), H: DANELLE GALLOWAY, O: Devin Galloway; 3rd: Kyrie Eleison FF (Revelry x Cataloniya), H: KAYLEE ATKINSON, O: Marsha Thomas; 4th: Marttini (Hucklebey Berry x Sultans Mainshine), H: CATE WONDRASEK, O: Cate Wondrasek; 5th: Tamar Desert Wind (Ptron x Evening Fire KA), H: KACIA KAPELKE, O: Kacia Kapelke.

Youth Halter Showmanship JTH 10 & Under Championship - Champion: JS Serinah (CW Bravado x Ambaretta), H: QUINN EISENFELD, O: Quinn Eisenfeld; Reserve: Court Marshall PA (TC Marshall x Fantasia PA), H: KAYLA ROTELLA, O: Joseph Rotella; 3rd: Federale (Desperado V x Fixaleyn), H: GRACE RALEIGH, O: Emma Croopnick; 4th: KW Scarletts Tara (Wolf x TC Scarlett Ohara), H: GEORGINA RAMIREZ, O: Kristine Walker; 5th: PE Sweet Latte (Aladdinnsblessing x C-R Fanfare), H: LAUREN LITTELL, O: Heidi Pretzel.

Western Horsemanship AATR Championship - Champion: AZA Force (Fame VF x Arabay Azaleen), H: ASHLEY MARIE SZCZEPANIEC, O: Mardi Pauling; Reserve: BSF Starbuck (Were Dun x Escada MF), H: MICHELLE PEASE-PAULSEN, O: Michelle Pease-Paulsen; 3rd: TR Sweet Deal (Dealin For Jewels x TR Sweet Magia), H: KARA FISHGOLD, O: Kara Fishgold; 4th: BSF Gitter Dun (Were Dun x Zerrette), H: DAVID THIELMAN, O: David Thielman; 5th: Stars

HA/AA English Show Hack Champion DREAM OF LOVE (Baske Afire x Spartan’s Silk Stockings), ridden by Taryn Lundquist for owner Maya Kahwaji.

HA/AA English Show Hack AAOTR Champion HALSTEADS DEVEN (Ariberry Bey V x Halsteads Devon), ridden by owner Michelle Pease-Paulsen.

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HA/AA English Show Hack JTR 18 & Under Champion DREAM OF LOVE (Baske Afire x Spartan’s Silk Stockings), ridden by Brianna Chamberlain for owner Maya Kahwaji.

HA/AA Pleasure Driving Champion GOOMBAY SMASH (AA Apollo Bey x Out Trot ‘Em), driven by Rene Ramirez for owner Penny Stuart. and Stripes SF (Allionces Knight x Starry Spumoni), H: NAN WALDEN, O: Rancho Sonado LLC. Western Horsemanship JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: Psygnature H (Padrons Psyche x Moonlight Lady SF), H: VICTORIA ROE, O: Jessica Bein; Reserve: The Buck Stops Here (Cat Man Dooley x Bookra Gentry), H: RYAN DEPUGH, O: Christi Mattson; 3rd: Magnitude VA (MCA Magnum Force x Farica), H: KAITLIN RENNER, O: Kaitlin Renner.

HA/AA Country Pleasure Driving ATD Champion TC MATADOR (Zodiac Matador x Love Me Love Me Not), driven by owner Diane Allen.

Western Horsemanship JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: TA Giovanni (Kordelas x Gloria AHSB), H: TRENTYN POWELL, O: Silver Aspen Ranch; Reserve: TR Skid Mark (Zee Mega Bucks x Chics Flip), H: KARLI KELLEY, O: Larry Lease; 3rd: Miss Maximus (HH Maxemus x She Dun Slid), H: KORI LYNN KELLEY, O: Larry Lease; 4th: The Buck Stops Here (Cat Man Dooley x Bookra Gentry), H: KAYLEE ATKINSON, O: Christi Mattson; 5th: Buenos Aires PGA (Khadraj NA x TR Evita), H: AMY REED, O: Amy Reed.

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HA/AA Mounted Native Costume Champion LLC ROYAL FLUSH (Orlando x Malenia), ridden by Amanda Borduin for owner Kelli Bradley.

A/HA/AA Saddle Seat Equitation JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: Vegas LOA (Meistermind x Love Me Tonight), H: AMANDA BURNS, O: Sara Sherman Glaser; Reserve: Afire of Roses MB (Baske Afire x To A Wild Rose), H: MARY MAG WILSON, O: Lori Luck.

A/HA/AA Saddle Seat Equitation JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: Dream Of

HA/AA Country Pleasure Driving Champion VICTIM OF LOVE (Sir William Robert x River Dance NA), driven by James Lowe for owner Jordan Parr.

Love (Baske Afire x Spartan’s Silk Stockings), H: BRIANNA CHAMBERLAIN, O: Maya Kahwaji; Reserve: Jezabell PE (Armani FC x Pauletta B), H: TAYLOR MCADAMS, O: Pegasus Arabians; 3rd: Fire Storm GM (Cease Fire x Chase The Clouds), H: KAYLEE ATKINSON, O: Christi Mattson; 4th: KF Lord of the Dance (KF Mark’s Majesty x River Dance NA), H: ABBEY WEISS, O: Abbey Weiss.

A/HA/AA Saddle Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under Championship - Champion: Swix (SF Specs Shocwave x Just on Ice), H: QUINN EISENFELD, O: Quinn Eisenfeld; Reserve: KDK Feel The Rhythm (Hucklebey Berry x She’s Phi-Vacious), H: GRACE RALEIGH, O: Susan Witte.

A/HA/AA Western Seat Equitation Walk/ Jog 10 & Under Championship - Champion: JS Serinah (CW Bravado x Ambaretta), H: QUINN EISENFELD, O: Quinn Eisenfeld; Reserve: Koulom Bey (Kouvay Bey x Elza), H: JONG REDMOND, O: Wolf Springs Ranches, Inc.; 3rd: MJD CSolid Gold (MJD Cuervo Gold x Sonoma Tasha), H: MCKELLA TIZIANI, O: Carolyn McDonald Shino; 4th: Apache Amistad (Don Amistad x Indy), H: MEI REDMOND, O: Michael Redmond; 5th: Sambucca Raves (Rave VF x Princess Huck V), H: SIENA KRUEGER, O: Maria Danieli Krueger.

A/HA/AA Hunter Seat Equitation Over Obstacles ATR Championship - Champion: DM Providance (Promotion x BB Belle V), H: KATHRYN DOYLE, O: Kathryn Doyle.

Hunt Seat Equitation Not To Jump AATR Championship - Champion: Locked N Loded (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H:

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HA/AA Mounted Native Costume ATR Champion PRINCE LOA (Krewe x Sultans Final Dawn), ridden by Michelle Pease-Paulsen for owner L. David Pease.

HA/AA Reining Horse ATR Limit Rider Champion WHAT BAR TONITE (What It Takes x Bar Time Karen), ridden by owner Julie May.

HILLARY BOOTHE, O: Hillary Boothe, Reserve: BSF Starbuck (Were Dun x Escada MF), H: MICHELLE PEASE-PAULSEN, O: Michelle Pease-Paulsen; 3rd: SK Chocolate Roses (Schehrezade Obsidian x Roses and Banners), H: ANDREW NEEDHAMMER, O: Julia Needhammer; 4th: Blessings Legacy (Aladdinnsblessing x Alantra), H: CASSANDRA FULLER, O: Fullers Par Excellence Farms.

Hunter Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under Championship - Champion: Afire Goddess (In The Lineafire x Philyra), H: QUINN EISENFELD, O: Devin Galloway; Reserve: Cuervo Sunrise CCR (Roi Rogers HMG x Padrons Chantille), H: HANNAH SERPA, O: Hannah Serpa; 3rd: Double Indimnity (Intense x NW Psyches Promis), H: WAVERLY COLLISON, O: Cindy Lee Dale; 4th: Sambucca Raves (Rave VF x Princess Huck V), H: SIENA KRUEGER, O: Maria Danieli Krueger; 5th: PE Sweet Latte (Aladdinnsblessing x C-R Fanfare), H: LAUREN LITTELL, O: Heidi Pretzel.

Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: MC Khalling Khard (Adonis x MC Khardia), H: JOSHUA SHINO, O: Tiffany Kurth; Reserve: Ssinatra (Shameless x DE Naztravia), H: KELSEY MCMAHAN, O: Kelsey McMahan; 3rd: Justa Hoot ( Justafire DGL x FSR Barbara), H: BAILEY MIRMELLI, O: Bailey Mirmelli; 4th: Moxberry Bey (Khemberry Bey V x Simply Moxie), H: MOLLY MADDEN, O: Molly Madden; 5th: Vitality PE (Armani FC x Rommy), H: NIKA CORNELL, O: Maria Cornell.

Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: Jake Daniels CB ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Dar Nuba), H: SYDNIE ST JEAN, O: Sydnie St Jean; Reserve: DS Kool Dude (Kouvay Bey x Nardiaa), H: KYLIE BLAKESLY, O: Lauren Keller; 3rd: WV Major Major (DS Major Afire x M Starlite), H: VANESSA PEDREGON, O: Randi Preiser; 4th: Magnosabi (Ames Charisma x Iim So Sheik), H: ALEXANDRA DAVISSON, O: Alexandra Davisson; 5th: Ben There Dunthat RA (Brennas Golden Dunit x Minding Ps and Qs), H: KORI LYNN KELLEY, O: Larry Lease.

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A/HA/AA Reining Seat Equitation JTR 14-18 Championship - Champion: The Buck Stops Here (Cat Man Dooley x Bookra Gentry), H: RYAN DEPUGH, O: Christi Mattson; Reserve: Wimpys Little Cat (Wimpys Little Step x Scat Cat), H: VICTORIA ROE, O: Victoria Roe.

HA/AA Western Trail Horse Champion IM DESTINEES HOBBY (Como Chex Hobby x Oasis Destinee), ridden by owner Jessica Bein.

HA/AA Western Trail Horse Junior Horse Champion RCC FRIAR TUCK (Cashmere MA x Lil Red Riding Hood), ridden by Jeffrey Wilms for owner Robyn Meyer.

A/HA/AA Reining Seat Equitation JTR 13 & Under Championship - Champion: TR Skid Mark (Zee Mega Bucks x Chics Flip), H: KORI LYNN KELLEY, O: Larry Lease; Reserve: TA Giovanni (Kordelas x Gloria AHSB), H: TRENTYN POWELL, O: Silver Aspen Ranch; 3rd: Miss Maximus (HH Maxemus x She Dun Slid), H: KARLI KELLEY, O: Larry Lease.

Walk/Trot A/HA/AA English Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under Championship - Champion: SS BOY GENIUS (TBO Beyboy Bask x Wild and Lovely PH), H: Quinn Eisenfeld, O: Penny Stuart.

HA/AA Western Trail Horse AATR Champion MTN UNIQUE (RG Al Mone x Addicted To Love), ridden by Michelle Roberts for owner Carol Roberts.

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HA/AA Western Trail Horse Green Horse Champion KHAARGA ESCOBAR SLIK (Kharga Asal Sukkar x Beckie), ridden by owner Jessica Bein.

HA/AA Reined Cow Horse Champion WIMPYS LITTLE CAT (Wimpys Little Step x Scat Cat), ridden by Jessica Bein for owner Victoria Roe.

HA/AA Reined Cow Horse ATR Champion SMART LITTLE ALEX (The Smart Smoke x HF Farena), ridden by Michelle Roberts for owner Carol Roberts.

HA/AA English Trail Horse Champion THE BUCK STOPS HERE (Cat Man Dooley x Bookra Gentry), ridden by Scott Scheyli for owner Christi Mattson.

HA/AA English Trail Horse ATR Champion STARS AND STRIPES SF (Allionces Knight x Starry Spumoni), ridden by Nan Walden, owner of Rancho Sonado LLC.

A/HA/AA Country English Pleasure Walk/ Trot 10 & Under Championship - Champion: SWIX (SF Specs Shocwave x Just on Ice), H: Quinn Eisenfeld, O: Quinn Eisenfeld; Reserve: KDK FEEL THE RHYTHM (Hucklebey Berry x She’s Phi-Vacious), H: Grace Raleigh, O: Susan Witt.e

(Musseaus x Teen Witch), H: Sydney Van Pelt, O: Ashlye Daniel; Reserve: KHAARGA ESCOBAR SLIK (Kharga Asal Sukkar x Beckie), H: Mckenna Bein, O: Jessica Bein; 3rd: IM DESTINEES HOBBY (Como Chex Hobby x Oasis Destinee), H: Mckenna Bein, O: Jessica Bein.

A/HA/AA Western Pleasure Walk/Jog 10 & Under Championship - Champion: KW SCARLETTS TARA (Wolf x TC Scarlett Ohara), H: Georgina Ramirez, O: Kristine Walker; Reserve: TK KOOL FANTASY (TF Totally Kool x Gramm Cracker), H: Addison Thompson, O: Deebe Cooke; 3rd: MJD CSOLID GOLD (MJD Cuervo Gold x Sonoma Tasha), H: Richard Archuleta, O: Carolyn McDonald Shino; 4th: SW ONE MORE TIME (Supremacys High Time x May Elation), H: Mackenna Basteyns, O: Arturo Ramirez; 5th: SAMBUCCA RAVES (Rave VF x Princess Huck V), H: Siena Krueger, O: Maria Danieli Krueger.

A/HA/AA Western Trail Horse Walk/Jog 10 & Under Championship - Champion: IM DESTINEES HOBBY (Como Chex Hobby x Oasis Destinee), H: Mckenna Bein, O: Jessica Bein; Reserve: KHAARGA ESCOBAR SLIK (Kharga Asal Sukkar x Beckie), H: Mckenna Bein, O: Jessica Bein; 3rd: SAUL (Musseaus x Teen Witch), H: Sydney Van Pelt, O: Ashlye Daniel; 4th: JS SERINAH (CW Bravado x Ambaretta), H: Quinn Eisenfeld, O: Quinn Eisenfeld; 5th: SAMBUCCA RAVES (Rave VF x Princess Huck V), H: Siena Krueger, O: Maria Danieli Krueger.

A/HA/AA Hunter Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under Championship - Champion: PE SWEET LATTE (Aladdinnsblessing x C-R Fanfare), H: Lauren Littell, O: Heidi Pretzel; Reserve: AFIRE GODDESS (In The Lineafire x Philyra), H: Quinn Eisenfeld, O: Devin Galloway; 3rd: WINDBORNE BRAVADA (Alada Baskin x Bagics Lil Audrey), H: Olivia Pullifrone, O: Juliet Jackson; 4th: CUERVO SUNRISE CCR (Roi Rogers HMG x Padrons Chantille), H: Hannah Serpa, O: Hannah Serpa; 5th: COURT MARSHALL PA (TC Marshall x Fantasia PA), H: Kayla Rotella, O: Joseph Rotella.

A/HA/AA Short Stirrup Reining 10 & Under Championship - Champion: SAUL

Sport Horse Arabian Hunter Halter Arabian Sport Horse Stallions IH Hunter Type Championship - Champion: ENVITATION ONLY (Allience x Eldara), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Miki Couchoud; Reserve: ELIJAH SDC (Alkazar PASB x FTL Elspeth), H: Kelley Long, O: Sally Clow.

Arabian Sport Horse Stallions IH Hunter Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship Champion: ENVITATION ONLY (Allience x Eldara), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Miki Couchoud; Reserve: ELIJAH SDC (Alkazar PASB x FTL Elspeth), H: Kelley Long, O: Sally Clow.

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HA/AA Working Cow Horse ATR Champion CC RIVAL (Mister Cayanne x AJ Dioressence), ridden by owner Michelle Roberts.

MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Final Khorus), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Kathy Klein; Reserve: ROMANCE V (Maclintock V x Ravvens Skylark), H: Sarah Shawcroft, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; 3rd: AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 4th: ALI BALOO (MFA Hullabaloo x Torjete), H: Diana Vance, O: Diana Vance; 5th: REVELRYS CATALYNA (Revelry x Cataloniya), H: Scott Scheyli, O: Marsha Thomas.

Arabian Sport Horse Mares IH Hunter Type 2 Yrs & Over ATH Championship - Champion: RIO BALOOS MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Final Khorus), H: Katie Harmon, O: Kathy Klein; Reserve: AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Michele Fertig, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 3rd: ALI BALOO (MFA Hullabaloo x Torjete), H: Diana Vance, O: Diana Vance; 4th: ROMANCE V (Maclintock V x Ravvens Skylark), H: Nan Walden, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; 5th: NABILAS FANTASY (El Nabila x R Desperada), H: Mathugh Vance, O: Mathugh Vance.

Arabian Sport Horse Geldings IH Hunter Type Championship - Champion: LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; Reserve: RENEGADE MAC V (Maclintock V x Ravvens Skylark), H: Sarah Shawcroft, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; 3rd: NF AXL (Bremervale Andronicus x NF Mirabella), H: Trish Nelson, O: Trish Nelson; 4th: AM VICTORY PARADE (AM Power Raid x AM Lightening Raid), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 5th: PLAUDIT (SVS Fornaio x Polishanna), H: Jill Loskill, O: Jill Loskill.

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HA/AA Cutting Horse Open Champion WILL HE BOOGY (Fantastiko x Sterlings Gold Lace), ridden by Jeffrey Wilms for owner Robyn Meyer.

HA/AA Cutting Horse Non-Pro Champion WILL HE BOOGY (Fantastiko x Sterlings Gold Lace), ridden by owner Robyn Meyer.

Arabian Sport Horse Geldings IH Hunter Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship - Champion: LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; Reserve: NF AXL (Bremervale Andronicus x NF Mirabella), H: Reed Brainard, O: Trish Nelson; 3rd: RENEGADE MAC V (Maclintock V x Ravvens Skylark), H: Nan Walden, O: Rancho Sonado LLC; 4th: AM VICTORY PARADE (AM Power Raid x AM Lightening Raid), H: Michele Fertig, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 5th: PLAUDIT (SVS Fornaio x Polishanna), H: Jill Loskill, O: Jill Loskill.

Arabian Dressage Halter Arabian Sport Horse Stallions IH Dressage Type Championship - Champion: TAMAR IMPRESSIONIST (Mais Shah x Tamartel Yriaelite), H: John Joyner Jr, O: John Joyner Jr; Reserve: ENVITATION ONLY (Allience x Eldara), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Miki Couchoud; 3rd: FOHCUS (Emanor x Fantazee VF), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Miki Couchoud; 4th: ELIJAH SDC (Alkazar PASB x FTL Elspeth), H: Kelley Long, O: Sally Clow.

Arabian Sport Horse Stallions IH Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship - Champion: TAMAR IMPRESSIONIST (Mais Shah x Tamartel Yriaelite), H: Carla Adams, O: John Joyner Jr; Reserve: ENVITATION ONLY (Allience x Eldara), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Miki Couchoud; 3rd: ELIJAH SDC (Alkazar PASB x FTL Elspeth), H: Kelley Long, O: Sally Clow; 4th: FOHCUS (Emanor x Fantazee VF), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Miki Couchoud.

Arabian Sport Horse Mares IH Dressage Type Championship - Champion: AMF TAMARA

HA/AA Cutting Horse $5,000 Novice Horse Champion SHINY BUTTONS (Goodtime Shine x Buttonns and Bows), ridden by Amy Wilms for owner Wilms Family Revocable Trust.

Halter Showmanship AATH Champion DEVIN GALLOWAY, owner of Queen Of Hearts LA (Ole Patche Rock x Hearts Desyre).

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Youth Halter Showmanship JTH 14-18 Champion JOSHUA SHINO with Queen Of Hearts LA (Ole Patche Rock x Hearts Desyre), for owner Devin Galloway.

Youth Halter Showmanship JTH 11-13 Champion VANESSA PEDREGON with Eva ABC (Metal of Honour x Sierra Starview), for owner Claudia Roberts.

ROSE (TFA Domingo x Saharan Breeze), H: Anne Machler, O: Anne Machler; Reserve: RIO BALOOS MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Final Khorus), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Kathy Klein; 3rd: AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 4th: NABILAS FANTASY (El Nabila x R Desperada), H: Mathugh Vance, O: Mathugh Vance; 5th: FANCI GAL (AH Gallant x Fraliera), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Linda DuBois.

Western Horsemanship AATR Champion ASHLEY MARIE SZCZEPANIEC with AZA Force (Fame VF x Arabay Azaleen), for owner Mardi Pauling.

Western Horsemanship JTR 14 -18 Champion VICTORIA ROE with Psygnature H (Padrons Psyche x Moonlight Lady SF), for owner Jessica Bein.

Arabian Sport Horse Mares IH Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship - Champion: RIO BALOOS MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Final Khorus), H: Katie Harmon, O: Kathy Klein; Reserve: AMF TAMARA ROSE (TFA Domingo x Saharan Breeze), H: Jennifer Brewer, O: Anne Machler; 3rd: NABILAS FANTASY (El Nabila x R Desperada), H: Mathugh Vance, O: Mathugh Vance; 4th: AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Michele Fertig, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 5th: FANCI GAL (AH Gallant x Fraliera), H: Linda DuBois, O: Linda DuBois.

Arabian Sport Horse Geldings IH Dressage Type Championship - Champion: LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; Reserve: AM VICTORY PARADE (AM Power Raid x AM Lightening Raid), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 3rd: RH JERICHO (Piedmont x SH London Tea), H: Susan Hill, O: Susan Hill; 4th: RAIN CHANCE (Ptron x Bara Regina), H: Shea Johnson, O: Shea Johnson; 5th: NF AXL (Bremervale Andronicus x NF Mirabella), H: Trish Nelson, O: Trish Nelson.

Youth Halter Showmanship JTH 10 & Under Champion QUINN EISENFELD, owner of JS Serinah (CW Bravado x Ambaretta).

Arabian Sport Horse Geldings IH Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship - Champion: RH JERICHO (Piedmont x SH London Tea), H: Susan Hill, O: Susan Hill; Reserve: AM VICTORY PARADE (AM Power Raid x AM Lightening Raid), H: Michele Fertig, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 3rd: RAIN CHANCE (Ptron x Bara Regina), H: Kristin Kabat, O: Shea Johnson; 4th: LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; 5th: AH BROOKLIN (Revelry x AH Amorette), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Marian Conrad LaLonde.

JTH Arabian Sport Horse Mares IH JTH 18 & Under Championship - Champion: AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Kelley Long, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; Reserve: ALI BALOO (MFA Hullabaloo x Torjete), H: Madeline Jahns, O: Diana Vance; 3rd: AM STYLISH CELEBRITY (AM Michael Love x AM Smiling Dream), H: Emma Kosmeder, O: Emma Kosmeder.

Arabian Sport Horse Geldings IH JTH 18 & Under Championship - Champion: AM VICTORY PARADE (AM Power Raid x AM Lightening Raid), H: Kelley Long, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC. Arabian Under Saddle Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle Championship - Champion: SILVER GENT (Cavu Malachi x Promise Lawshaysa), H: Lorna Giovanelli, O: Lorna Giovanelli; Reserve: NF AXL (Bremervale Andronicus x NF Mirabella), H: Trish Nelson, O: Trish Nelson; 3rd: RIO BALOOS MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Volume 45, No. 1 |

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A/HA/AA Saddle Seat Equitation JTR 14-18 Champion AMANDA BURNS with Vegas LOA (Meistermind x Love Me Tonight), for owner Sara Sherman Glaser.

Final Khorus), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Kathy Klein; 4th: LLC VERSYN (Versace x MS Symphonie), H: Sawyer Kieler, O: Sawyer Kieler; 5th: ENVITATION ONLY (Allience x Eldara), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Miki Couchoud.

Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle Junior Horse Championship - Champion: AL-MARAH JESSICA (Bremervale Andronicus x Reem Al Fala), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; Reserve: AM VICTORY PARADE (AM Power Raid x AM Lightening Raid), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 3rd: SCARLETT JAMAAL BFS (Mazkarade x Juliana El Jamaal BF), H: Katie Wojcieszek, O: David Bishop.

Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle ATR Championship - Champion: DM VIVID KHEMISTRY (Khemberry Bey V x GT Vixen), H: Maren Cochran, O: Maren Cochran; Reserve: NF AXL (Bremervale Andronicus x NF Mirabella), H: Tiffany Hayes, O: Trish Nelson; 3rd: STARABETTA (Starof Fame V x GG Jabetta), H: Amber Spisak, O: Amber Spisak; 4th: ENVITATION ONLY (Allience x Eldara), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Miki Couchoud; 5th: AM GREAT OTHELLO (Bremervale Andronicus x Quest Tocaya), H: Kerry Lee Redente, O: Kerry Lee Redente.

Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle JTR Championship - Champion: LLC VERSYN (Versace x MS Symphonie), H: Sawyer Kieler, O: Sawyer Kieler; Reserve: AM STYLISH CELEBRITY (AM Michael Love x AM Smiling Dream), H: Emma Kosmeder, O: Emma Kosmeder; 3rd: TR FRISKMI (Mishaah x Friska BRSB), H: Kaitlyn Ruonavaara, O: Wendy Ruonavaara; 4th: AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy 42 •

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A/HA/AA Saddle Seat Equitation JTR 13 & Under Champion BRIANNA CHAMBERLAIN with Dream Of Love (Baske Afire x Spartan’s Silk Stockings), for owner Maya Kahwaji.

A/HA/AA Saddle Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under Champion QUINN EISENFELD, owner of Swix (SF Specs Shocwave x Just on Ice).

x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Kelley Long, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC; 5th: SR SSAVANT (Sshameless x Lluminessa), H: Megan Manning, O: Megan Manning.

Arabian Sport Horse Show Hack Championship - Champion: CJA DEBBONHEIR (The Million Heir x CJA Lorelei), H: Jodi Reynolds, O: Jodi Reynolds; Reserve: RH JERICHO (Piedmont x SH London Tea), H: Carolyn Heaton, O: Susan Hill; 3rd: ZZEUS SA (BA Ibn Dream x Zolee Gura), H: Tamera Bowles, O: Anne Santer; 4th: AMF TAMARA ROSE (TFA Domingo x Saharan Breeze), H: Anne Machler, O: Anne Machler; 5th: CSP TRIBILITY (MHR Nobility x Trifirette), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe.

Half-Arabian Hunter Halter HA/AA Sport Horse Mares IH Hunter Type Championship - Champion: PEJCZYKS GUIDING STAR (Star of Halo x Pejczyk Bannatu), H: Robin Clark, O: Andrea Feldaverd; Reserve: NF MISS SCARLETT SLEW (Ara x APM Starr Struckk), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Marian Conrad LaLonde; 3rd: A SWEET CITY WOMAN (High N Command x La Khatrina KF), H: Jackie Alkin, O: S. Dianne Bubb; 4th: B ZOSHENNE (Pascal Depau x Ravenwoodshalique), H: Shea Johnson, O: Kelli Congero; 5th: NIGHTTS ROYALE (Royal Prince x Summer Nightt), H: Robin Clark, O: Robin Clark.

HA/AA Sport Horse Mares IH Hunter Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship Champion: PEJCZYKS GUIDING STAR (Star of Halo x Pejczyk Bannatu), H: Robin Clark, O: Andrea Feldaverd; Reserve: NF MISS SCARLETT SLEW (Ara x APM Starr Struckk), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Marian

A/HA/AA Western Seat Equitation Walk/Jog 10 & Under Champion QUINN EISENFELD, owner of JS Serinah (CW Bravado x Ambaretta).

Hunt Seat Equitation Not To Jump AATR Champion HILLARY BOOTHE, owner of Locked N Loded (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline).

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Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump JTR 14-18 Champion JOSHUA SHINO with MC Khalling Khard (Adonis x MC Khardia), for owner Tiffany Kurth.

A/HA/AA Reining Seat Equitation JTR 14-18 Champion RYAN DEPUGH with The Buck Stops Here (Cat Man Dooley x Bookra Gentry), for owner Christi Mattson.

Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump JTR 13 & Under Champion SYDNIE ST JEAN, owner of Jake Daniels CB ( Jake Jamaal JCA x Dar Nuba).

Hunter Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under Champion QUINN EISENFELD with Afire Goddess (In The Lineafire x Philyra), for owner Devin Galloway.

Conrad LaLonde; 3rd: A SWEET CITY WOMAN (High N Command x La Khatrina KF), H: Michele Fertig, O: S. Dianne Bubb; 4th: NIGHTTS ROYALE (Royal Prince x Summer Nightt), H: Robin Clark, O: Robin Clark; 5th: B ZOSHENNE (Pascal Depau x Ravenwoodshalique), H: Madison Gales, O: Kelli Congero.

PEJCZYKS GUIDING STAR (Star of Halo x Pejczyk Bannatu), H: Robin Clark, O: Andrea Feldaverd; 3rd: NIGHTTS ROYALE (Royal Prince x Summer Nightt), H: Robin Clark, O: Robin Clark; 4th: A SWEET CITY WOMAN (High N Command x La Khatrina KF), H: Jackie Alkin, O: S. Dianne Bubb.

HA/AA Sport Horse Geldings IH Hunter Type Championship - Champion: BEON ALLA CZAR (Beon Eternety x Alla Petite), H: Jill Loskill, O: Jill Loskill; Reserve: SOREALL (Allionce x Soleya), H: Todd Ehret, O: Lorna Harron; 3rd: RS MERCURY (SDA Silver Legend x Vagabonds Finale), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Jackie Alkin; 4th: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Ashley Wren; 5th: WITTLE PRANK STAR (Good Ol Boy x Farnely’s Lottie Da), H: A J Schlatter Flynn, O: A J Schlatter Flynn.

HA/AA Sport Horse Geldings IH Hunter Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship Champion: SOREALL (Allionce x Soleya), H: Wendy Davis, O: Lorna Harron; Reserve: RS MERCURY (SDA Silver Legend x Vagabonds Finale), H: Michele Fertig, O: Jackie Alkin; 3rd: BEON ALLA CZAR (Beon Eternety x Alla Petite), H: Jill Loskill, O: Jill Loskill; 4th: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Ashley Wren; 5th: WITTLE PRANK STAR (Good Ol Boy x Farnely’s Lottie Da), H: Katie Wojcieszek, O: A J Schlatter Flynn.

A/HA/AA English Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under Champion SS BOY GENIUS (TBO Beyboy Bask x Wild and Lovely PH), ridden by Quinn Eisenfeld for owner Penny Stuart.

Half-Arabian Dressage Halter HA/AA Sport Horse Mares IH Dressage Type Championship - Champion: B ZOSHENNE (Pascal Depau x Ravenwoodshalique), H: Shea Johnson, O: Kelli Congero; Reserve:

HA/AA Sport Horse Mares IH Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship - Champion: B ZOSHENNE (Pascal Depau x Ravenwoodshalique), H: Kristin Kabat, O: Kelli Congero; Reserve: NIGHTTS ROYALE (Royal Prince x Summer Nightt), H: Robin Clark, O: Robin Clark; 3rd: PEJCZYKS GUIDING STAR (Star of Halo x Pejczyk Bannatu), H: Robin Clark, O: Andrea Feldaverd; 4th: A SWEET CITY WOMAN (High N Command x La Khatrina KF), H: Michele Fertig, O: S. Dianne Bubb.

HA/AA Sport Horse Geldings IH Dressage Type Championship - Champion: BEON ALLA CZAR (Beon Eternety x Alla Petite), H: Jill Loskill, O: Jill Loskill; Reserve: RS MERCURY (SDA Silver Legend x Vagabonds Finale), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Jackie Alkin; 3rd: SOREALL (Allionce x Soleya), H: Todd Ehret, O: Lorna Harron; 4th: TWO MOONNS TLC (Paladinn MA x Prima Marlinda), H: Katie Harmon, O: Katie Harmon; 5th: AMF TONKA TOY (FH Maximus x Saharan Breeze), H: Anne Machler, O: Anne Machler.

HA/AA Sport Horse Geldings IH Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Championship - Champion: BEON ALLA CZAR (Beon Eternety x Alla Petite), H: Jill Loskill, O: Jill Loskill; Reserve: RS MERCURY (SDA Silver Legend x Vagabonds Finale), H: Michele Fertig, O: Jackie Alkin; 3: VF MAJESTIC Volume 45, No. 1 |

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A/HA/AA Country English Pleasure Walk/ Trot 10 & Under Champion SWIX (SF Specs Shocwave x Just on Ice), ridden by owner Quinn Eisenfeld.

ROGUE (LFD Amir Rogue x Majestic Holme), H: Madeline Jahns, O: Madeline Jahns; 4th: SOREALL (Allionce x Soleya), H: Wendy Davis, O: Lorna Harron; 5th: TWO MOONNS TLC (Paladinn MA x Prima Marlinda), H: Katie Harmon, O: Katie Harmon.

JTH HA/AA Sport Horse Mares IH JTH 18 & Under Championship - Champion: A SWEET CITY WOMAN (High N Command x La Khatrina KF), H: Kelley Long, O: S. Dianne Bubb; Reserve: B ZOSHENNE (Pascal Depau x Ravenwoodshalique), H: Meredith Pendleton, O: Kelli Congero; 3rd: MOXBERRY BEY (Khemberry Bey V x Simply Moxie), H: Molly Madden, O: Molly Madden.

HA/AA Sport Horse Geldings IH JTH 18 & Under Championship - Champion: RS MERCURY (SDA Silver Legend x Vagabonds Finale), H: Sara Kerr, O: Jackie Alkin; Reserve: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren; 3rd: MBE VERSACE (Eld Willy Bob x Jemini Christmas), H: Kelley Long, O: Jackie Alkin; 4th: WITTLE PRANK STAR (Good Ol Boy x Farnely’s Lottie Da), H: Tyler Holiday Hardin, O: A J Schlatter Flynn; 5th: VF MAJESTIC ROGUE (LFD Amir Rogue x Majestic Holme), H: Madeline Jahns, O: Madeline Jahns.

Half-Arabian Under Saddle HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle Championship - Champion: AM TOKEN CHICK (Bremervale Andronicus x Queen Christine), H: Wendy Davis, O: Jerry Hamilton; Reserve: BEAUNAFIDE PRINCESS (Beaunafide Bey x Diamonts Princess), H: Missy Gilliland, O: Maren Cochran; 3rd: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Ashley 44 •

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A/HA/AA Western Pleasure Walk/Jog 10 & Under Champion KW SCARLETTS TARA (Wolf x TC Scarlett Ohara), ridden by Georgina Ramirez for owner Kristine Walker.

A/HA/AA Hunter Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under Champion PE SWEET LATTE (Aladdinnsblessing x C-R Fanfare), ridden by Lauren Littell for owner Heidi Pretzel.

Wren, O: Ashley Wren; 4th: THE AGA KHAN (Rayzaar x WS Flaxen Lady), H: Carolyn Heaton, O: Abigail Richlin; 5th: B ZOSHENNE (Pascal Depau x Ravenwoodshalique), H: Shea Johnson, O: Kelli Congero.

HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle Junior Horse Championship - Champion: SOREALL (Allionce x Soleya), H: Todd Ehret, O: Lorna Harron; Reserve: AMF TONKA TOY (FH Maximus x Saharan Breeze), H: Anne Machler, O: Anne Machler; 3rd: SAFARI AF (Taste Afire x Butterfly’s Kentucky Rose), H: Kristin Hardin, O: Lisa Burkhardt.

HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle ATR Championship - Champion: NF MISS SCARLETT SLEW (Ara x APM Starr Struckk), H: Marian Conrad LaLonde, O: Marian Conrad LaLonde; Reserve: AM TOKEN CHICK (Bremervale Andronicus x Queen Christine), H: Wendy Davis, O: Jerry Hamilton; 3rd: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Miki Couchoud, O: Ashley Wren; 4th: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren; 5th: BEAUNAFIDE PRINCESS (Beaunafide Bey x Diamonts Princess), H: Maren Cochran, O: Maren Cochran.

HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle JTR Championship - Champion: MBE VERSACE (Eld Willy Bob x Jemini Christmas), H: Kelley Long, O: Jackie Alkin; Reserve: RS MERCURY (SDA Silver Legend x Vagabonds Finale), H: Sara Kerr, O: Jackie Alkin; 3rd: A TOUCH OF CLASS (Signal Bey x Caramel Puff ), H: Savannah Borad, O: Ashley Wren; 4th: MOXBERRY BEY (Khemberry Bey V x Simply Moxie), H: Molly Madden, O: Molly Madden; 5th: KHARBEN COLOR (Tucknicolor x PZs

A/HA/AA Short Stirrup Reining 10 & Under Champion SAUL (Musseaus x Teen Witch), ridden

by Sydney Van Pelt for owner Ashlye Daniel.

A/HA/AA Western Trail Horse Walk/Jog 10 & Under Champion IM DESTINEES HOBBY (Como Chex Hobby x Oasis Destinee), ridden by Mckenna Bein for owner Jessica Bein.

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Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle Champion SILVER GENT (Cavu Malachi x Promise Lawshaysa), ridden by owner Lorna Giovanelli.

Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle Junior Horse Champion AL-MARAH JESSICA (Bremervale Andronicus x Reem Al Fala), ridden by Kristin Hardin for owner Al-Marah Arabians LLC.

Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle ATR Champion DM VIVID KHEMISTRY (Khemberry Bey V x GT Vixen), ridden by owner Maren Cochran.

Kharben Kiss), H: Anna Redmond, O: Wolf Springs Ranches, Inc. HA/AA Sport Horse Show Hack Championship - Champion: HS ACES HIGH (High Sign x Sultan’s Spunkey Monkey), H: Tamera Bowles, O: High Star Farms LLC; Reserve: CITIE SLICKER (Crimson N Smoke x Breathless Mahonney), H: Sara Kerr, O: Sara Kerr; 3rd: GALILEO (Alota Gator Bait x Beaus Star Ruler), H: Ashley Wren, O: Ashley Wren; 4th: CH BOY BLUE (Negociant x CH Kherida), H: Gail Thomas, O: Gail Thomas.

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Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle JTR Champion LLC VERSYN (Versace x MS Symphonie), ridden by owner Sawyer Kieler.

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Arabian Sport Horse Show Hack Champion CJA DEBBONHEIR (The Million Heir x CJA Lorelei), ridden by owner Jodi Reynolds.

Dressage Arabian Dressage Training Level Test 3 Championship - Champion: RIO BALOOS MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Final Khorus), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Kathy Klein; Reserve: FANCI GAL (AH Gallant x Fraliera), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Linda DuBois; 3rd: LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; 4th: DM KHEMBER STAR (Khemberry Bey V x BSA Star Danzer), H: Linda Holcomb-Denbrock, O: Linda Holcomb-Denbrock; 5th: AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC. HA/AA Dressage Training Level Test 3 Championship - Champion: HS ACES HIGH (High Sign x Sultan’s Spunkey Monkey), H: Hillary Boothe, O: High Star Farms LLC; Reserve: THE AGA KHAN (Rayzaar x WS Flaxen Lady), H: Carolyn Heaton, O: Abigail Richlin; 3rd: KINETIC ROMANCE (Draco x Bemy Sunshine), H: Missy Gilliland, O: Joanna Norman; 4th: JD SUNTEENA (Serix Sundance x Skips

Raffteeka), H: Carol Rhodes, O: Irena Callahan; 5th: ZIPPY KI YAY (Tezmar Bey x Zip N Slide DT), H: Anna Filleti, O: Cathy Griffin.

A/HA/AA Dressage Training Level Test 3 AATR Championship - Champion: LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; Reserve: BEAUNAFIDE PRINCESS (Beaunafide Bey x Diamonts Princess), H: Maren Cochran, O: Maren Cochran; 3rd: HS ACES HIGH (High Sign x Sultan’s Spunkey Monkey, H: Hillary Boothe, O: High Star Farms LLC; 4th: ALI BALOO (MFA Hullabaloo x Torjete), H: Diana Vance, O: Diana Vance; 5th: ZIPPY KI YAY (Tezmar Bey x Zip N Slide DT), H: Katie Wojcieszek, O: Cathy Griffin.

A/HA/AA Dressage Training Level Test 3 JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: ALI BALOO (MFA Hullabaloo x Torjete), H: Madeline Jahns, O: Diana Vance; Reserve: SR SSAVANT (Sshameless x Lluminessa), H: Megan Manning, O: Megan Manning; 3rd: CRF BARENAKED LADY (Brass x Lady Gambler), H: Hannah Hiland, O: Hannah Hiland; 4th: VF MAJESTIC ROGUE (LFD Amir Rogue x Majestic Holme), H: Madeline Jahns, O: Madeline Jahns; 5th: VICTORY DANSE (RSD Dark Victory x Scarlet Musk), H: Sara Kerr, O: Sara Kerr.

A/HA/AA Dressage First Level Test 3 Championship - Champion: HS ACES HIGH (High Sign x Sultan’s Spunkey Monkey), H: Hillary Boothe, O: High Star Farms LLC; Reserve: LA RIIZ GYPSY BELLE (Supreme La-Ritz x MX Tiana), H: Missy Gilliland, O: Debra Sumner; 3rd: RIO BALOOS MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Final Khorus), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Kathy Klein; 4th: LOCKED N

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HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle Champion AM TOKEN CHICK (Bremervale Andronicus x Queen Christine), ridden by Wendy Davis for owner Jerry Hamilton.

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HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle Junior Horse Champion SOREALL (Allionce x Soleya), ridden by Todd Ehret for owner Lorna Harron.

HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle ATR Champion NF MISS SCARLETT SLEW (Ara x APM Starr Struckk), ridden by owner Marian Conrad LaLonde.

LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; 5th: AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), H: Jackie Alkin, O: Al-Marah Arabians LLC.

(Mr Chips x Psynderella), H: Patricia Tabitha Muller, O: Anne Allison.

A/HA/AA Dressage Second Level Test 3 ATR Championship - Champion: ZANZYBAR ( Juventus x JK Raset), H: Amanda Southerly, O: Lois Whittington; Reserve: CJA DEBBONHEIR (The Million Heir x CJA Lorelei), H: Jodi Reynolds, O: Jodi Reynolds; 3rd: DM VIVID KHEMISTRY (Khemberry Bey V x GT Vixen), H: Maren Cochran, O: Maren Cochran; 4th: CITIE SLICKER (Crimson N Smoke x Breathless Mahonney), H: Sara Kerr, O: Sara Kerr; 5th: DM PROVIDANCE (Promotion x BB Belle V), H: Kathryn Doyle, O: Kathryn Doyle.

A/HA/AA Dressage First Level Test 3 AATR Championship - Champion: HS ACES HIGH (High Sign x Sultan’s Spunkey Monkey), H: Hillary Boothe, O: High Star Farms LLC; Reserve: AEGYPTIAN GOLD (Aegypt x Megn Liberty Gold), H: Sondra Powers, O: Sondra Powers; 3rd: BEAUNAFIDE PRINCESS (Beaunafide Bey x Diamonts Princess), H: Maren Cochran, O: Maren Cochran; 4th: LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), H: Hillary Boothe, O: Hillary Boothe; 5th: PACIFICO SCG (TR Friskmi x Gypsy), H: Susan Girard, O: Susan Girard.

A/HA/AA Dressage First Level Test 3 JTR 18 & Under Championship - Champion: SR SSAVANT (Sshameless x Lluminessa), H: Megan Manning, O: Megan Manning; Reserve: CRF BARENAKED LADY (Brass x Lady Gambler), H: Hannah Hiland, O: Hannah Hiland; 3rd: VICTORY DANSE (RSD Dark Victory x Scarlet Musk), H: Sara Kerr, O: Sara Kerr; 4th: DM PROVIDANCE (Promotion x BB Belle V), H: Kathryn Doyle, O: Kathryn Doyle; 5th: MBE VERSACE (Eld Willy Bob x Jemini Christmas), H: Kelley Long, O: Jackie Alkin.

A/HA/AA Dressage Second Level Test 3 Championship - Champion: EL DA VINCI (SH Rembrandt x Shahrai), H: Kailee Surplus, O: Cynthia Course; Reserve: DM VIVID KHEMISTRY (Khemberry Bey V x GT Vixen), H: Missy Gilliland, O: Maren Cochran; 3rd: RAIN CHANCE (Ptron x Bara Regina), H: Shea Johnson, O: Shea Johnson; 4th: PFLICKAA 46 •

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A/HA/AA Dressage Third Level Test 3 Championship - Champion: DANCIN UP A STORM (Storm The Castle x Fiaal Khorus), H: Missy Gilliland, O: Debra Sumner; Reserve: EL DA VINCI (SH Rembrandt x Shahrai), H: Kailee Surplus, O: Cynthia Course; 3rd: PFLICKAA (Mr Chips x Psynderella), H: Patricia Tabitha Muller, O: Anne Allison.

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HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle JTR Champion MBE VERSACE (Eld Willy Bob x Jemini Christmas), ridden by Kelley Long for owner Jackie Alkin.

A/HA/AA Dressage Third Level Test 3 ATR Championship - Champion: CITIE SLICKER (Crimson N Smoke x Breathless Mahonney), H: Sara Kerr, O: Sara Kerr.

A/HA/AA Dressage Intermediate I Championship - Champion: ZZEUS SA (BA Ibn Dream x Zolee Gura), H: Tamera Bowles, O: Anne Santer.

A/HA/AA Dressage Prix St. Georges Championship - Champion: HH VALENTINO (Mystrigo x Bit Of Klass), H: Shea Johnson, O: Shea Johnson; Reserve: ZZEUS SA (BA Ibn Dream x Zolee Gura), H: Tamera Bowles, O: Anne Santer.

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HA/AA Sport Horse Show Hack Champion HS ACES HIGH (High Sign x Sultan’s Spunkey Monkey), ridden by Tamera Bowles for owner High Star Farms LLC.

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2014 Region 7 Sport Horse/Dressage Champions Sport Horse Arabian Sport Horse Stallion IH Hunter Type Open and 2 Years & Over ATH Champion ENVITATION ONLY (Allience x Eldara), shown by owner Miki Couchoud.

Arabian Sport Horse Mare IH Hunter Type Champion RIO BALOOS MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Final Khorus), shown

by Jackie Alkin for owner Kathy Klein.

Arabian Sport Horse Mare IH Hunter Type 2 Yrs & Over ATH and Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Champion RIO BALOOS MELODY (MFA Hullabaloo x Final Khorus), shown by Katie Harmon for owner Kathy Klein.

Arabian Sport Horse Gelding IH Hunter Type Open and 2 Years & Over ATH and Dressage Type Open Champion LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), shown by owner Hillary Boothe.

Arabian Sport Horse Stallion IH Dressage Type Champion TAMAR IMPRESSIONIST (Mais Shah x Tamartel Yriaelite), shown by owner John Joyner Jr. Arabian Sport Horse Stallion IH Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Champion TAMAR IMPRESSIONIST (Mais Shah x Tamartel Yriaelite), shown by Carla Adams for owner John Joyner Jr. Arabian Sport Horse Mare IH Dressage Type Champion AMF TAMARA ROSE (TFA Domingo x Saharan Breeze), shown by owner Anne Machler.

Arabian Sport Horse Gelding IH Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Champion RH JERICHO (Piedmont x SH London Tea), shown by owner Susan Hill.

Arabian Sport Horse Mare IH JTH 18 & Under Champion AM HER MAJESTY ARIEL (AM Good Oldboy x Al-Marah HRH Domaine), shown by Kelley Long for owner Al-Marah Arabians LLC.

Arabian Sport Horse Gelding IH JTH 18 & Under Champion AM VICTORY PARADE (AM Power Raid x AM Lightening Raid), shown by Kelley Long for owner Al-Marah Arabians LLC. HA/AA Sport Horse Mare IH Hunter Type Open and 2 Years & Over ATH Champion PEJCZYKS GUIDING STAR (Star of Halo x Pejczyk Bannatu), shown by Robin Clark for owner Andrea Feldaverd.

HA/AA Sport Horse Gelding IH Hunter Type and Dressage Type Open and 2 Years & Over ATH Champion BEON ALLA CZAR (Beon Eternety x Alla Petite), shown by owner Jill Loskill.

HA/AA Sport Horse Gelding IH Hunter Type 2 Years & Over ATH Champion SOREALL (Allionce x Soleya), shown by Wendy Davis for owner Lorna Harron.

HA/AA Sport Horse Mare IH Dressage Type Champion B ZOSHENNE (Pascal Depau x Ravenwoodshalique), shown by Shea Johnson for owner Kelli Congero.

HA/AA Sport Horse Mare IH Dressage Type 2 Years & Over ATH Champion B ZOSHENNE (Pascal Depau x Ravenwoodshalique), shown by Kristin Kabat for owner Kelli Congero.

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HA/AA Sport Horse Gelding IH JTH 18 & Under Champion RS MERCURY (SDA Silver Legend x Vagabonds Finale), shown by Sara Kerr for owner Jackie Alkin.

(win photos not available) HA/AA Dressage Training Level Test 3, First Level Test 3 and First Level Test 3 AATR Champion HS ACES HIGH (High Sign x Sultan’s Spunkey Monkey), ridden by Hillary Boothe for owner High Star Farms LLC. A/HA/AA Dressage Training Level Test 3 AATR Champion LOCKED N LODED (LBA Lode Star x SF Praline), ridden by owner Hillary Boothe.

A/HA/AA Dressage Training Level Test 3 JTR 18 & Under Champion ALI BALOO (MFA Hullabaloo x Torjete), ridden by Madeline Jahns for owner Diana Vance.

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Lori And Victor Ricigliano

by ANNE STRATTON

There are plenty of professional attributes that can be assigned to Lori and Victor Ricigliano, of Marketing Mafia Productions Inc., one of the Arabian horse industry’s most prolific media providers. They’re talented, skilled, hardworking, and they both know horses. But the salient point in their lives—the one which provides the foundation for their success—is that they don’t just love each other. They like each other.

That is critical, because with the exception of a few times when Lori has been away judging a horse show, they have been together 24/seven for 18 years, training and breeding horses or working at photography and videography. In the winter, that now means in a 36-foot mobile studio in Scottsdale, which, as Lori puts it, is so confined that “you can hear another person breathing in the next room.” For some people, that would be the death of a relationship. For the Riciglianos, it has been the engine that has driven them to the top of their game.

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The Making Of Soul Mates When Lori and Victor Ricigliano met in 1995, they knew that they shared a passion for horses, but they had no idea what that would mean— how one thing would lead to another and they would go from southern California to northern Minnesota (the nearest town that resonates with the rest of the country is Fargo, N.D.) before they would find the life they now have. The journey that took them there is as interesting in its own way as their globetrotting life now is exciting.

Growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs, Lori was the quintessential “horse crazy” kid, but with extraordinary commitment; at the age of 12, she groomed horses at a local Saddlebred barn to scrape together the $300 price of an unregistered mare. Then she tracked down the owners of the mare’s sire and dam, secured their

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signatures and assembled all the paperwork to satisfy the Arabian Horse Registry’s requirements for completing a registration. It was a task which daunted more experienced horse owners than a budding teenager, but she got it done and Ambrosia Jinn is still with her at the age of 31.

The mare, whose pedigree reflects a mix of Egyptian and domestic breeding, introduced her young owner to training. “Ambrosia became my four-wheel drive vehicle,” Lori says.

“I taught her to drive, ride and trail ride, and I showed her for years.”

The young horsewoman kept working through her high school years, first for Saddlebred

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trainer (now sculptor) Douwe Blumberg and then for Lois Ann Kroll, longtime Arabian horse owner and author of the popular booklet, Arabian Costumes. She also indulged an interest in art that she says she inherited from her father, an artist and civil engineer, and a long line of grandfathers. She was as comfortable with a pencil or charcoal in her hand as she was holding reins, and she even enjoyed a little photography.

But photography in the film days could be a pricey hobby, and already into horses, she postponed taking it any further.

By the time Lori started college at California State University Northridge, she had determined to become a veterinarian, but the goal lasted only until she realized that really, she just wanted to train horses. Cutting short her academics, she launched a training career locally and at the age of 21, got her judge’s card in Arabian horses (she still has it and officiates at three or four shows a year).

“My dad and mother both believed in me and whatever I wanted to do,” she remembers.

“They said, ‘Are you sure?’ I said, ‘Yes, I think

there’s something more.’ They said, ‘We know you can do it.’”

Over the next few years, she began making her name in the show ring. Then in 1995, when she was 22, she made a decision which changed her life. She moved her business to Carmel Rose Arabians, a small operation near Hesperia, Calif., owned by Joan Kelly—whose son, Victor, had just retired with an injury from the police force. In the course of redirecting his life, he was working with horses at the ranch.

Victor Ricigliano too was a native Californian.

During his childhood, he and his mother lived with his grandparents after her divorce from his stepfather, Mathew Bertolini. But while the marriage may have been over, Matt’s role in the boy’s life was not. He remained a father figure for Victor and was living with the Riciglianos in Minnesota when he died three years ago.

“He was one of my best friends in the whole world,” Victor says, and adds that it was Matt

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who most encouraged his interest in photography. At the age of 14, glancing through magazines, he had discovered his passion: he wanted to take pictures of people. But all he had was a little Kodak Instamatic; a 35mm SLR was well out of his price range, even with all the odd jobs he was picking up to stoke his savings. It was even too much for his mother, although she supported his dream.

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And then Matt came to visit. “Is this really what you want to do?” he asked. Victor replied, “Dad, it’s exactly what I want to do. I want to take pictures like in these magazines.”

“So we went to a camera store, and we bought a Pentax SLR 35mm with one lens,” Victor says. “He had to put it on five different credit cards. It wasn’t a top of the line camera at the time, but for him—for us, at the level of income we lived at—it was like going out and buying a car. He maxed out every credit card he had to buy me that camera, and when he handed it to me, he said, ‘Just do the best you can. Be the best you can. I know in my heart that you will be better than the people who took these pictures you’re looking at. But I want you to know I am proud of you, and if you do your best, I will always be proud of you.”

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By the time he was 16, Victor had purchased an annual pass to Disneyland, where he went several times a week, just to sit on Main Street and photograph the people walking by. “That’s where it all started,” he says.

Although he made some money, primarily photographing models at fashion and hair shows, it was not a stable income. He worked in computers for a while, and then became an Emergency Medical Technician before finally settling on law enforcement, first in San Gabriel and then east of Los Angeles in West Covina.

In police work, he found the second passion of his life, and with it came an opportunity to indulge another interest. He became a founding member of the city’s equestrian unit, in which each officer owned the horse he rode on duty. Most departments, Victor notes, use their mounted units primarily for community relations. In West Covina, the horses appeared for public relations opportunities such as parades, but also patrolled such places as malls and paseos (narrow thoroughfares between houses in a rougher part of town where cars could not go).

He chuckles when he remembers taking his horse for specialized training; he was the only person there with a purebred Arabian.

The other officers laughed when he arrived, but Royal, as his grey gelding was called, was a former endurance horse who quickly rose to the top of the class. By the end of the course, he had set a record for the highest overall score, an honor he would hold for many years. On the street, the horse’s snowy color attracted the children of West Covina, and he proved an effective ambassador as well as skilled police horse.

Talk to Victor Ricigliano today and you are left in no doubt: he loved being a police officer and if he hadn’t been injured, he would not have given it up. “I like to help people,” he says. “I like to solve problems, and as an officer, you are the ultimate problem solver.”

Then, in 1995, a back injury took him off the job. He withdrew to his mother’s horse farm in Hesperia, rode Royal, and before long began helping neighbors with their trail horses. Word got around quickly that he could turn out bombproof riding companions, and he developed a growing clientele just doing what he liked to do.

Two other noteworthy events happened at that time as well. He dusted off his camera, which over the past few years had emerged only at crime scenes, and he met the young woman who was training from his mother’s barn.

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It Takes Two The first thing that became apparent about Lori and Victor Ricigliano as horse trainers was that they complemented each other. Lori aimed at the show ring, while Victor focused his efforts on creating responsive, unflappable trail horses who could do their jobs on auto pilot if necessary (Royal could be ridden everywhere without any tack at all). It just naturally happened that he began helping her with a few horses who were discipline cases, and they got to know each other gradually.

When did it become apparent that more than friendship might be possible? Victor laughs. In those days, he arrived at the farm’s office at 4 a.m. to knock out work before he left on his training rounds. Lori is not a morning person, he reports— and yet she began showing up around 4:10 with coffee (“all her make up on and fully dressed,” he marvels). “I said, ‘You really don’t have to get up this early! I’ll come back and have coffee with you!’”

The rest is history. They fell in love.

Together, they wanted to try something new, and chose Colorado to start their own training

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operation. “We had some good clients, and it was a fun, beautiful time in our life,” Lori recalls, adding that they worked well together; Victor “knocked the rough edges” off the horses, and she did the finish work. But they wanted to breed Arabians also, and they realized that that would mean moving.

In 1998, on the internet, she located the 50-acre property they now own in Minnesota. They liked it enough not to complain (much) during the first winter, and over time, they rehabbed the farm, built a barn and an arena, and carefully connected everything so that going from one structure to another on cold days would be easier. And they found they liked the nearby town of Wolverton, where residents made them feel welcome.

It was like they had arrived—except that it laid the groundwork for a new life. Photography was on the horizon.

They had settled in nicely, made friends in the Minnesota equine community and were enjoying their horses, when the millennium ushered in the digital age of photography. Victor, who had resumed his

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interest in shooting when he’d left the police force, was consumed. He had tried before to interest Lori, but met with little real success. “Technology scared her,” he explains. “She thought a computer was a giant typewriter.” Still, he knew that the combination of her artistic eye and equine experience would give her extraordinary vision as a photographer.

“Victor taught me how to get what was in my mind into the camera,” Lori says of her transformation.

She already knew the angle she needed and the look she wanted; all she had to learn was how to drive the family Nikons. They got started by shooting first at home, and then, casually and just for practice, at other Minnesota farms. From there, everything escalated. And it wasn’t just about technical ability; looking back now, Lori notes that shooting at such operations as Midwest and Shada gave them vital experience not only in photographing Arabians, but also in creating images of top-level show horses.

Soon what had been a rewarding pastime was clearly on the road to a new business. One discernible turning point, Lori recalls, came when they received their first international booking (Brazil, Haras Vanguarda), which resulted in another turning point: one of Victor’s photographs of the farm’s stallion, Ryad El Jamaal, was selected for the cover of Arabian Horse Times.

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Other venues quickly followed, all over the United States and Canada, with significant representation in South America. It wasn’t just a pleasant dream; they formed a company named Marketing Mafia Productions Inc. (“I’m Italian,” Victor laughs), and in time added equine video production, as well as commercial photography, to their services.

The key to their talent? It’s their approach, both say.

“I talk to the owner to find out how they see their horse,” Lori offers, “and I shoot for that, not just what we see. We’ve had people tell us, ‘You seem to find a different look on these horses; you capture emotion well. You seem to feel what the horse is thinking.’

“We were horsemen first, photographers second,” she continues. “I know the standard of how we want to represent our horses in our breed, the standard to how we judge them. What I do is instinctual; it’s anticipating how the horse is going to move, shooting with my gut and using natural light to create a beautiful scene. It’s the energy of the horse, capturing the movement and then letting it happen naturally.”

“A great photo is not one that is set, it’s captured,” says Victor. “You have to be there to capture the moment.

You have to work with the horse’s comfort level. There is no more beautiful picture than a horse being a horse.”

An example? “When you make a baby so comfortable that it will bounce away from its mother and play— those are great shots. If you scare it by taking it away from its mother, so that it is only concerned with getting back to her, you don’t get the same thing. We both look at it as, ‘How are we going to do this as the horse wants to do it? How do we make it fun for them?’ It’s being able to read the horses.”

When both photos and videos are requested, Lori is responsible for the still shots, while Victor accounts for the videos. Otherwise, they both shoot stills, each with their different style, and their competition fuels the results.

In recognition of their success, both Riciglianos have won Arabian Horse Times Readers’ Choice Awards, Victor in 2009 for his March cover photo of DA Valentino, and Lori in 2013 for her January cover shot of Da Vinci FM.

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In Real Life Life has come a long way since the Riciglianos moved to Minnesota (and Lori froze the zippers of her ski pants lugging buckets of water to the horses in the winter). Now they spend most of their time from December through April in Scottsdale, although trips to shoot locations in North America and internationally are booked throughout the year.

The net result is that they always are grateful to get home. “Our farm is our sanctuary,” says Lori.

Their house, which was built in 1905, is four-square prairie style with an arts and crafts flavor. “It feels like you are stepping back into about 1930,” Lori says. Photographs and art, mostly equine, line the

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walls and decorate the tables. About 13 horses, many their retired show partners, occupy the surrounding pastures, and in town, a gallery carries their giclee prints (high quality photos on canvas). Local friends follow their travels on Facebook. It is home.

When they are at the farm, they are usually processing their work. Victor is known as the neat and organized one (he can lay his hands on any image or video they’ve ever shot), whereas Lori’s desk is a triumph of what her husband calls “disorganized organization.” She knows where everything is, though, he concedes.

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So, really, what was it all those years ago that told each of them it would be better to dance together than alone? For Victor, meeting Lori was like being on a collision course with light.

“It’s kind of corny,” he shrugs, “but when you talk about true love at first sight, that’s the way it was for me with Lori. I was madly in love with her from the first second I saw her. Head over heels. They say in everybody’s life, you have a soul mate, and Lori is mine.

“That doesn’t mean we don’t argue, because we do (I’m pure Italian, she’s half Italian/half Irish, with gypsy thrown in for spice). But we know life isn’t that serious, so if we’re at home and we get in a disagreement, I’ll just get in the car and drive.” He smiles. “I’m not a quarter of a mile away before I’m picking up the cell phone just to hear her voice. Janey Morse described it best when I was at her house while Lori was judging a horse show. She came over to me and said, ‘You’re lost, aren’t you?’ And I said, ‘Janey, I’m just counting the hours till she gets back.’”

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And Lori? She is more reserved, but the feelings are genuine. “Victor is the kindest, strongest individual I’ve ever met,” she says simply. “He’s my rock. He gives me the ability to be who I am; he gives me the freedom to create.” She got a glimpse of his quality, she says, when she observed his patience and compassion in training his horses. “You can judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. That’s how you can tell a person’s true character.” n

One of Victor’s favorite photos, which he shot of Lori at Oak Ridge Arabians as she waited for just the right image. “She was doing what she loves, sitting in a field with horses, creating art,” he says. “That is my wife. That is Lori.”

(The horse is the late multi-national champion Half-Arabian, Centourian.)

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by Kara Larson Albuquerque in July. For everyone involved in the Arabian horse show world, this means one thing: Youth Nationals.

Coming into its 22nd year, Arabian youth riders from all around the world will flock to New Mexico for the biggest event of their show season. As anticipation builds and qualifications accumulate, all look forward to this prestigious show. Today, Youth Nationals continues to gain recognition as a competitive and fun show as it inspires young riders and handlers to keep practicing and trainers to do their best to prepare their young students for the big show in Albuquerque. Youth Nationals Show Commissioner Mickey Hegg is also awaiting a great Youth Nationals. “I’m looking forward to another year of excellent exhibitors and their horses competing with the camaraderie and skill our young exhibitors demonstrate.

I can also tell you that this is a very hard-working show commission that never gives up and works to support each other in all aspects of the show. We never lose focus

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on who this show is for—we want it to be the best it can be for our youth exhibitors.”

Events that simply cannot be missed this year include the Exhibitor Welcome Party, sponsored by the Albuquerque CVB, on Saturday, July 19th. The famed mechanical bull will be back for this occasion. The following day, July 20th, the Parade of Regions brings all the regions in the U.S. and Canada together to show off their regional pride. With a theme of “Spotlight on the Stars,” this popular event will wow the crowd and marks a very special aspect of Youth Nationals. The Stall Decorating Contest will be held Sunday, July 20th, the Stick Horse Contest, complete with homemade horses and enthusiastic youngsters, is occurring on Monday, July 21st.

If hippology is on your radar, then the Arabian Horse Hippology Contest, held on Tuesday, July 22nd, will interest you. The Flying Pigs Fundraiser will happen on

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Tuesday, July 22nd and Friday, July 25th. A perfect cool treat in the New Mexico sun comes with the Ice Cream Social on Thursday, July 24th. For our furry friends, the Dog Costume and Dog Races are also on Thursday. A few more popular attractions back again this year are the Pink Flaming Flock (P.F.F), Trailer Raffle Benefiting AHYA donated by Renee Pelzman and Shadow Trailers LLC of Florida, and the T.A.I.L Tours, which will be on Saturday and Sunday ( July 19th and 20th) and Friday and Saturday ( July 25th and 26th). Also in 2014, three new classes added to the already impressive list are Sport Horse In-Hand, Short Stirrup Reining 10 & Under, and Western Riding Exhibition.

Opportunities for scholarships are also available. Youth Nationals has a great deal to offer talented graduating seniors from the Arabian horse community. There will be $1,000 to the Champion and $500 to the Reserve Champion in both the Arabian and Half-Arabian/ Anglo-Arabian Saddle Seat Equitation JTR 13 & Under

Championship, and in both the Arabian and HalfArabian/Anglo-Arabian Saddle Seat Equitation JTR 14-18 Championship. One more new scholarship this year comes from Markel Insurance. This special scholarship will reward $3,500 to the high point and $1,500 to the reserve youth and horse team that compete in equitation, showmanship, and one under-saddle class in any division.

Beyond fun events, scholarship opportunities, and a showcase of the best youth Arabian horse teams around, Youth Nationals is a family show where a friendly atmosphere, quality horsemanship, and good sportsmanship take center stage. Hegg shares, “Youth Nationals is the gateway for our adult national shows and it offers a wonderful way for our youth to show their ability to the entire equine world. The love these youth have for the Arabian horse and their desire to display that passion is the heart of Youth Nationals. The friendships formed at Youth go on for a lifetime, which adds to the whole experience for all involved.”

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What do you think makes Youth Nationals such a great show? What I truly love about Youth Nationals is that it is completely centered on the youth and making it the best experience for anybody who decides to show there.

Since all of the classes are youth classes, you’re watching all of your friends showing. This provides for a positive energy throughout the show as the youth get to be with their friends from all over the United States that you normally don’t get to see that often. This energy carries over into all the activities the AHYA puts on, such as the Ice Cream Social or the Flying Pigs contest.

How long have you been riding? I’ve been riding horses since the 4th grade, so around 9 years. I started showing competitively in 6th grade.

What made you want to run for AHYA President? I’ve seen first-hand how amazing this Association really is and I wanted to continue to be a part of it. I started out as a Vice-Director and my passion only grew from there because the AHA gives so much responsibility to the AHYA, and puts so much trust in us that all the people on the board are inspired to do what is best for the Association. I ran because I knew I’d have a great group of people alongside me with the same inspiration for the 2014 year.

What experiences have you had showing at YN? I went to my first Youth Nationals in the 7th grade, which was pretty difficult for me, as I imagine it is for most first-year Youth National showers. However, when I came back the next year, my horse, Clyde, and I, went reserve champion in the Arabian hnter, which was truly thrilling.

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Is AHYA planning on doing anything new at Youth this year? This will be our second year fundraising for the Make-A-Wish Foundation known as Pink Flamingo Flock. This fundraiser was really successful last year and is a perfect example of how much fun Youth Nationals truly is. Yes, it raises money for a great cause, but the entire show grounds has fun carrying it out, because all the barns get to “flock” other barns with a bunch of pink plastic flamingos. This will be the first year that we advertise for our Trailer Raffle at Youth Nationals and our second year of the fundraiser in general. The main difference year to year is the theme; this year the theme is “Spotlight on the Stars,” which is a Hollywood-based theme.

What are you most looking forward to at YN? Convention this year, as it will be the first year it is held in the morning on Friday, rather than in the afternoon. It is also the first year that delegates don’t have to sign up beforehand in order to participate. So hopefully, we’ll have a lot of people there to start the show off right!

What is your favorite class to watch or thing to do at Youth? My favorite is the Arabian Park, hands down, because it is in the evening of one of the finals nights.

There are so many people who come to watch this class specifically, and you can feel everyone’s excitement!

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A Note To All Arabian Youth Nationals Contenders:

PERSPECTIVE

by KARA LARSON

My journey with the Arabian started simply. It was effortless and sweet and I was six years old. I loved the horse, picking hooves, the smell of the barn, and getting to ride bareback if I had a “good” lesson. I grew up in this industry. My summer days were spent riding in the outdoor arena just minutes away from my home—both my horse and I sweating in the South Dakota sun. Followed up with a cool Sprite® for me and mouthfuls of grass for him, it seems now that moments like these should be kept in my pocket for a rainy day.

From this simplistic perfection, my horses continued to offer me everything a teenager could need. From trivial issues to the passing of my older brother, the warm fur of my horse’s neck caught every falling tear. No questions asked, no embarrassment, just the purest form of solace.

Their understanding holds a beauty few are privy to, but it is this esoteric bond that has the ability to change everything and renew hope.

The Arabian horse gave me patience, appreciation for life, and as I’ve grown since my first days with the horse, the saddle now feels like home. I no longer lustfully strive for the blue ribbon or fret in the trifling details that once upset me after a tough class. There are things that are not meant to be flawless and precise—things that are simply out of our realm of control. But isn’t that what makes horse shows interesting? If all we had to do was follow an

uncomplicated formula to carry out an impeccable performance, I think boredom would follow rather quickly.

With mistakes, we gain experience, knowledge, and something to work toward the next time around.

Although errors can shake confidence, you will come back stronger than before—believe me, I have had my fair share.

So as you enter the arena at Youth Nationals this year, try to view the experience for what it is. This is a horse show—a place to exercise the bond you share with your horse, a time to feel proud of your accomplishments, a chance to connect further with your horse trainers, family, and friends, and lastly, a moment to appreciate the beauty in the life you’re living. It’s an odd world, and our Arabian horse subculture is no exception to this oddity, but taking a breath and reveling in the big picture offers a wonderful freedom. It’s like galloping atop the track in Albuquerque, riding out of the ring as national champion, taking a drink of ice cold water after a long class, and the electricity of a cheering crowd—all rolled into one big feeling. Give yourself a chance to take in your surroundings, stop overthinking, allow the pressure to lift, and remember that one bad ride isn’t going to spin the Earth out of orbit.

If you’re going to Youth Nationals, you’re a brilliant rider or handler. Be confident in your talents and continue to dream of roses, but do keep in mind that most of the beauty in life stems from the journey, not the destination. ■

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Hannah Feldman & Malieka +// PB Hunter Pleasure JTR/JOTR 14-18 & Ladies English Side Saddle

arabian-training.com

FaCebOOk OFFiCial Half-arabian Country english Pleasure JOTR & JTR 14-18

Half-arabian Country Pleasure Driving JTD 18 & Under

“Best of Luck Buggie!!

We could not be prouder of you and all of your hard work!” ~ Mom & Dad

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Owned by The Charnesky Family Harrisonville, MO

ChriShan Park Chris Wilson: 417.761.2031 Shan Wilson: 417.848.3943

National Champion

Csp ViVa La ViDa

arabian park JTr 18 & under

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National Champion

CF Coming up roses

Country pleasure Driving JTD 18 & under ferrara photo

National Champion

Csp ViVa La ViDa arabian english pleasure JoTr & JTr 14-18 arabian pleasure Driving JTD 18 & under

Csp Danze ToThe musiC arabian saddle seat equitation 14-18 arabian Country english pleasure JoTr 14-18 (Not Pictured)

National Champion

Danse aLL nighT upha Challenge Cup 14-17 half-arabian saddle seat equitation 14-18 ferrara photo

shown by elaina & elise roeder

ChriShan Park Chris Wilson: 417.761.2031 shan Wilson: 417.848.3943

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Contenders

Earthquake Arabians is located in beautiful Northern California.

TRAINERS: Tamara Collins and Megan Jenkins 3141 Morgan Territory Rd., Clayton, CA 94517 • 707-386-7771

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Hott Copy

Scrimmage x Breathing Fire+ Contending In:

Arabian English Show Hack JTR 14-18 and JOTR 18 & Under Arabian Mounted Native Costume JTR 14-18 and JOTR 18 & Under 2014 Scottsdale Top Ten Arabian English Show Hack JTR 18 & Under 2014 Scottsdale Top Ten Arabian Mounted Native Costume JTR 18 & Under 2013 Region 3 Reserve Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 18 & Under 2013 Region 3 Reserve Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 18 & Under 2013 Region 3 Top Four Arabian Mounted Native Costume JTR 18 & Under

Sophie Yih MPH

Flash Gordon

NDL Flashdance+/ x Nik Nak Paddy Wack Contending In:

Saddle Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under H/A Country English Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under Showmanship JTH 10 & Under 2014 Diablo AHA Champion Country English Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under 2014 Diablo AHA Reserve Champion Saddle Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under 2014 AHA Nor Cal Reserve Champion Country English Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under 2013 Region 3 Top Five Walk/Trot Equitation 10 & Under

Megan Southall Challs Image Magnum Chall HVP x SH Luvs Echo Contending In:

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Arabian Hunter Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Arabian Hunter Seat Equitation JTR 13 & Under 2014 Diablo AHA Champion Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under 2014 Diablo AHA Champion Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump 13 & Under 2014 AHA Nor Cal Reserve Champion Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under 2014 Golden Gate AHA Reserve Champion Arabian Hunter Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Volume 45, No. 1 |

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Delirious PGA+// Starof Fame V+/ x Fames Delight Contending In:

H/A Hunter Pleasure JOTR 14-18 H/A Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump 14-18 2014 Scottsdale Reserve Champion Hunter Seat Equitation 14-18 2013 Unanimous Canadian National Champion H/A Hunter Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under 2013 Canadian National Champion H/A Hunter Pleasure JTR 13 & Under 2013 Canadian National Top Ten Hunter Seat Equitation JTR 13 & Under 2013 Region 3 Champion H/A Hunter Pleasure JTR 13 & Under 2013 Region 3 Champion Hunter Seat Equitation JTR 13 & Under 2013 Region 3 Top Three H/A Hunter Pleasure JOTR 18 & Under

Temptastic A Temptation x Beyberry Charades Contending In:

Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 2014 Scottsdale Top Ten Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 14-18 2014 Scottsdale Top Ten Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 2014 Diablo AHA Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 18 & Under

Tamara Collins and Megan Jenkins • 3141 Morgan Territory Rd., Clayton, CA 94517 • 707-386-7771

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Erica Mark A Time To Dance+//

Apollopalooza x Dancing Rain X Contending In:

Hunter Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18 2014 Scottsdale Unanimous Champion 2x 2013 Canadian National Unanimous Champion 2013 Scottsdale Champion 2012 Youth National Champion 2012 Scottsdale Unanimous Champion 2x 2011 Canadian National Champion

Botox+/

Apollopalooza x Petra C

Contending In:

H/A English Show Hack JTR 14-18 and JOTR 18 & Under H/A Mounted Native Costume JTR 14-18 and JOTR 18 & Under 2013 Scottsdale Reserve Champion 2013 Canadian National Champion 2x 2011 Canadian National Champion 2010 Canadian National Reserve Champion

Tamara Collins and Megan Jenkins • 3141 Morgan Territory Rd., Clayton, CA 94517 • 707-386-7771

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Mackenzie Potts & midniGHT cHrome HF H/a HunTer pleasure JoTr/JTr 14-18 2014 scoTTsdale reserve cHampion H/a HunTer pleasure 2014 reGion 9 reserve cHampion H/a HunTer pleasure

Tuscan sun arabian sporT Horse GeldinG in-Hand arabian sporT Horse under saddle arabian WesTern pleasure JoTr/JTr 14-18 2014 reGion 9 cHampion sporT Horse

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WesTern HorsemansHip & HunTer seaT equiTaTion 14-18 2014 reGion 9 cHampion HorsemansHip

Tamar cool Kid

Also showing

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Mary Margaret Gilbert & JoGeesdavine Wind arabian WesTern pleasure JoTr/JTr 14-18 arabian ladies side saddle WesTern JTr 18 & under

Wc iliad arabian HunTer pleasure JoTr/JTr 14-18 Also competing in Western Horsemanship JTR 14-18 & Showmanship JTH 14-18

Proud parents: John & Sandy Gilbert

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Be Dressed to Perfection when you Ride down the Red Carpet to receive your Roses!

Mary Mag Wilson & Sydney Landers

Isabella Perricone

Jenny Lau

Elaina Roeder & Madison Stringer

Faith Robbins

Quintin Roberts

Good Luck 2014 Youth National Riders!

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Introducing the 2014

Stable of Stars from Bisch Training.

☆☆ ☆☆ Amanda Burns

Kutloano Moloi

Sefenya Moloi

Bailey Bostwick

Where youth riders are the stars.

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Showing

Amanda Burns

Amanda Burns and Paris Hilton PE

Competing in Half Arabian Side Saddle, Half Arabian Show Hack JTR and JOTR. , Half Arabian Country Pleasure 14-18 JOTR, Vegas LOA, UPHA 14-17, Half Arabian Saddle Seat Equitation, BP Klassique Bey Saddle Seat Equitation Purebred 14-18. Easy Dun It, Half Arabian reining horse and reining seat equitation 14-18. With Tyson Randle.

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Showing

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Sefenya Moloi and Afire Flame+

Competing in Purebred English Pleasure JTR 13 and under, Purebred Show Hack JTR 13 and Under.

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Showing

Bailey Bostwick

Bailey Bostwick and Ghorgia Peach WF

Competing in Half Arabian Show Hack 13 and under, Half Arabian Country Pleasure JTR and JOTR .

Bailey Bostwick and Ghorgia Peach WF are qualified for 13 and under Country English Pleasure and Show Hack.Her first show with her “Peach” she earned a Top Ten at Scottsdale. She also was Champion in the 13 and under JOTR and Reserve Champion in the JTR at Region 7.

Way to go Bailey! We are so very proud of you!

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☆ Now

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Kutloano Moloi and Blackjack LOA

Competing in Half Arabian Gelding Halter JTH, Half Arabian Native Costume 14-18, Half Arabian Country Pleasure 14-18.

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Mc Kenna Bein and

Im DestInees Hobby+// KHaarga escobar slIK+ sH Karlotta am lIberty ParaDe FlasH gorDen

Walk/Trot 10 & Under …

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LOSE CONTROL, TO GAIN IT ...

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JOTR & JTR 14-18

Proudly Owned by Kinkela Harkins

UPHA Arabian Breeds Challenge Cup H/A Saddle Seat Equitation 14-18

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UPHA Arabian Breeds Challenge Cup H/A Saddle Seat Equitation H/A Country English Pleasure Proudly Owned by Emma williams

Thank you to my family and Joel and Ashton, I could never thank you enough for what you have done for me. And I couldn’t forget my best friend, Teddie.

All the peppermints and carrots could never make up for what you have done for me. ~Love Emma

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H/A English Pleasure

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National Champions Da Kota and Rachel Olson

BACK IN ALBUQUERQUE FOR OUR LAST YOUTH NATIONALS ...

Available for purchase

FF

+ // To everyone who has helped me along the way these past ten years ... Thank You! The Lord has truly blessed me with an amazing horse show family! Love you all, Rachel

2013 YOUTH NATIONAL CHAMPION HALF-ARABIAN WESTERN PLEASURE JTR 14-18 2012 UNANIMOUS YOUTH NATIONAL CHAMPION HALF-ARABIAN WESTERN PLEASURE JOTR 14-17 2013 SCOTTSDALE CHAMPION HALF-ARABIAN WESTERN PLEASURE JOTR 18 & UNDER AND JTR 14-18

We are so Proud of You! Love Mom, Lou, Jane and Aunt Susan

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Markel proudly presents…

The Markel $5,000 Youth Scholarship New for Youth Nationals 2014 Includes $3,500 for Champion and $1,500 for Reserve Champion July 19 - 26, 2014 Expo New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Requirements for Eligibility: One horse and one rider To be Eligible: Horse and rider must compete in one Showmanship, Equitation and Under Saddle Class in any discipline Awards: Highpoint awards will be tracked and recorded, with winner announced at this year’s Youth Nationals Show in Albuquerque, NM For more information, visit www.arabianhorseinsurance.com and www.arabianhorses.org/YNLscholarship Contact: Kimberly Douglas saddleup@markelcorp.com 901-299-7818

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STRONG when you are weak,

BRAVE when you are scared,

AND

HUMBLE when you are VICTORIOUS

I N T R O D U C E S

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Follow the DREAMS which set your soul on fire, for those are the ones you

NEVER REGRET CF

BELLA LUNA

H/A Equitation UPHA Arabian Breeds Challenge Cup H/A Country English Pleasure

MANDALAY BEY Arabian Equitation Arabian Show Hack

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Faith Robbins Winner Of

12 NATIONAL CHAMPION & RESERVE TITLES

DIAMOND CHIPS LOA H/A English Pleasure JTR H/A Park Horse JTR

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We are never given

DREAMS THEM

without the power to make

COME TRUE

BLAZE AFIRE BF H/A Equitation UPHA Arabian Breeds Challenge Cup H/A Country English Pleasure

NOBLE HERO Arabian English Pleasure JTR/JOTR Arabian Park Horse JTR

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JACKAL H/A English Pleasure JTR/JOTR H/A Park Horse JTR

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NEVER let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your HEART you were MEANT TO DO

Jordan Mutschelknaus ANZA DE COGNAC Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR/JOTR Arabian Equitation

DON’T BE AFRAID to give up the GOOD and go for the GREAT

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Every CHAMPION was once a contender that simply REFUSED to GIVE UP

Wyatt Budd TEMPTING TANGO Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR Arabian Country Pleasure Driving JTD AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

You have to FIGHT through some bad days to EARN the BEST days of your life

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MAGDALENA

H/A Equitation H/A Park Horse JTR

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

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And the day came when the RISK to remain TIGHT in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to BLOSSOM

Skylar Gunlicks AFIRES SECRET

H/A English Pleasure JTR UPHA Arabian Breeds Challenge Cup

You’ve got what it TAKES, but it will take EVERYTHING you’ve got

Abbi McComb STRIKE SO SASSY

H/A Equitation UPHA Arabian Breeds Challenge Cup

VITO VALENTINO

Also competing with H/A Country English Pleasure JTR/JOTR

It’s okay to be a GLOW STICK; sometimes we need to BREAK before we SHINE

Abigail Schounce BRING ON THE GLORY H/A English Pleasure JTR/JOTR H/A Park Horse

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HS JUSTATEMPTATION

U NA N I MOU S R E G ION 1 C HA M PION COMPETING IN

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Katherine Mathews

CAMELOT MEDNYTS STEED | MORNING GLORY SF

Competing In HA HUNT SEAT EQUITATION – Walk/Trot 10 & Under

DRESSAGE – Walk/Trot 10 & Under

PB HUNT SEAT EQUITATION – Walk/Trot 10 & Under

PB HUNTER PLEASURE – Walk/Trot 10 & Under

HA HUNTER PLEASURE – Walk/Trot 10 & Under

PB SPORT HORSE IN HAND

HA SPORT HORSE IN HAND

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JERIKO MP+ | CAMERA SHY | SHY GAYFEEN++++// New Mexico competitors; before we reach for the stars, we reach for the hay.

Competing In PB SPORT HORSE UNDER SADDLE

HA HUNTER SEAT EQUITATION NTJ – JOTR 13 & Under

DRESSAGE TRAINING LEVEL JTR – JOTR 13 & Under

DRESSAGE TRAINING LEVEL JTR – JOTR 13 & Under

HA HUNTER PLEASURE JTR – JOTR 13 & Under

PB HUNTER PLEASURE JTR – JOTR 13 & Under

HA SPORT HORSE UNDER SADDLE – In Hand

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JERIKO MP+ New Mexico bred. New Mexico born. New Mexico proud.

Competing In PB HUNTER PLEASURE – Walk/Trot 10 & Under

DRESSAGE – Walk/Trot 10 & Under

PB HUNTER SEAT EQUITATION– Walk/Trot 10 & Under

PB SPORT HORSE IN HAND

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Multi-National Champion TA Rising Starr x Miss Rippin Rascal

Multi-National Champion Don Amistad x G Indy

Multi-National Champion Kouvay Bey x Elza

The Redmond Family Scottsdale, Arizona

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ALLIE OLLILA IN

"CATCHING FIRE" STARRING THE FIRE MARSHALL

Competing in H/A Saddle Seat Equitation 13 & Under UPHA Challenge Cup 13 & Under H/A Country Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under

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CAMRYN MARTENS

IN A WESTERN DOUBLE-FEATURE!

MM KINGSLEE+//

HOW THE WEST WAS WON Competing in Arabian Western Pleasure Arabian Western Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under

CASH IN THE BUCKS

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS

Competing in H/A Western Pleasure H/A Western Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under

2014 Scottsdale Champion Western Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under 2014 Scottsdale Top Ten Western Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under

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H C T P I PERFECT

WITH MAJOR SENSATION DJ & AKS PHINAL JAM

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H/A Hunter Pleasure Walk/Trot 10 & Under H/A Hunter Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under with AKS Phinal Jam

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Competing in Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under with Mister Mamage CW+ 2014 Scottsdale Top Ten Country English Pleasure JTR 14 & Under

Arabian Western Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under with Ssteam+/

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SEVANA SKINNER IN

"BRING IT ON" STARRING MS ELECTRA GLIDE AND ARIES MA

Competing in H/A Mounted Native Costume JTR 13 & Under with MS Electra Glide Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR & JTR 13 & Under with Aries MA

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Competing in Half-Arabian English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 14-18 Half-Arabian Saddle Seat Equitation 14-18 UPHA Arabian Breeds Challenge Cup JTR 14-18 Ariberry Bey V x Halstead’s Sandy

Competing in Half-Arabian English Show Hack JOTR 18 & Under Half-Arabian English Show Hack JTR 14-18 Half-Arabian Ladies Side Saddle English JTR 18 & Under Meistermind X Kelly Le Brock

Offered for your consideration

Owned by Mary Jo Meier of Waukesha, WI A Temptation X Westela

Competing in Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 Arabian Saddle Seat Equitation 14-18

I want to thank Mary Jo for giving me the opportunity to show her talented horse Westlie.

It was truly a pleasure! - Jenna

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Competing in Half-Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR and JTR 14-18 Half-Arabian Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump 14-18 SS Painted Intimidator x Scarlett Magnolia

Competing in Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under

Afire Bey V X LBC Noble Spirit

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- Emily Kuras with

Candelight Jazz Competing in:

Arabian Western Pleasure JTR 14-18 Arabian Western Pleasure JOTR 14-18

CF Afires

Valentine

Competing in:

H/A Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 H/A Country English Pleasure JOTR 14-18

Rushlow’s ARAbiAns

Chad, Marggie, Sally, Quintin and Cash

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- Abby Mills with

Michaelangelo DD Competing in:

Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under Arabian English Show Hack JTR 13 & Under Arabian English Show Hack JOTR 18 & Under

Tamar Last Kisz Competing in:

Arabian Western Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Arabian Ladies Side Saddle Western JTR 18 & Under

- Isabel Chism with

GSF

Lordof The Ring Competing in:

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JTR and JOTR 13 & Under Arabian Ladies Side Saddle English JTR 18 & Under 2013 National Top Ten Arabian Hunter Pleasure 13 & Under JTR 2013 National Top Ten Arabian Hunter Pleasure 13 & Under JOTR 2013 Buckeye Reserve Champion Arabian Hunter Pleasure 2011 National Top Ten Arabian Hunter Pleasure 10 & Under

Rushlow’s ARAbiAns

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2014 YOUTH CONTENDERS

- Quintin Roberts -

Competing in:

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- Lauren Tokash with

HSA Braveheart

Competing in:

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JTR 14-18 Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR 14-18 Arabian Ladies Side Saddle English 18 & Under

Rushlow’s ARAbiAns

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Meet Our Stars!

Jocelyn Davis &

Meisters Tribute+//Â Arabian Hunter Pleasure Walk/Trot Arabian Hunter Seat Equitation Walk/Trot

2.

Nicole Davis & Fanfare WF+/

3 Meet Our Stars!

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18

4 Meet Our Stars!

3. Ryan Young &

HS Psytation Station+ Arabian Hunter Pleasure JTR 11-13

4. Nicole Davis &

Phi Me To The Moon+/ 5 Meet Our Stars!

H/A Hunter Pleasure JTR and JOTR H/A Hunter Seat Equitation 14-18

6 Meet Our Stars!

5-6.

Chance Harvey & Allexxus

Arabian Hunter and Western Pleasure Walk/Trot Arabian Western and Hunter Seat Equitation Walk/Trot

7.

Romy Young & Alianza PA+ Arabian Hunter Seat Equitation Walk/Trot

7 Meet Our Stars!

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Top Ten Guidelines For Success At Youth Nationals

by Scott Benjamin

10. Envision your winning performance. Fortune favors the prepared! Ride to win.

The judges are looking for the best performance each and every time in every class— from elimination to final.

9.

Do no override your horse. No matter how talented your horse may be, your performance needs to reflect one suitable for a youth exhibitor. Be careful not to overtire your horse in the first few days if you have several classes and/or divisions in which to ride during the week.

8. Use the arena to your advantage. Know where you need to go and what

you need to do to show your horse to its greatest advantage. Be aware of your surroundings and position your horse to be seen at its best advantage. Avoid congestion, pitfalls in the ring and problem horses. DO NOT run over the judge in an attempt to be seen. We cannot pin you if we are injured/maimed, knocked unconscious or worse!

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7. In equitation and showmanship, please remember to demonstrate superior

horsemanship. While we are indeed judging the person’s performance, your demonstration of skill is directly related to your ability to get your horse to perform at its very best. Know your pattern! Help us reward your skill and preparation by executing a well rehearsed precise pattern. Silly questions in the line-up are unnecessary.

6.

Know the class specifications and execute them accordingly. ***ENGLISH DIVISION ALERT!*** All horses, regardless of discipline, will be expected to walk—four-beat, flat-footed, possibly for an extended period of time. These are pleasure classes with performances suitable for a youth exhibitor.

2014 Youth Nationals judge, Scott Benjamin.

5.

Correct your mistakes (which are inevitable) quickly, efficiently and smoothly with minimal drama and fuss. A mistake-free performance is not a requirement to win in any class, so keep riding and stay focused.

4. Concentrate on your performance. What everyone else is doing—as long as no

interference is caused by, or to you—is none of your business. Don’t look around and get intimidated. Leave the judging to the judges. Get in, get busy and get the job done!

3.

Showboating is unnecessary. When the line-up is called, strike your best trot down the rail and cruise into line. The class is finished and the judges have already made up their minds. Impress us by lining up with style!

2. Enjoy the moment. Reflect on the journey both you and your horse have made

to get to this point—to Youth Nationals—and savor every sweet morsel of that achievement.

1. Have fun! This is your time to shine. Make it the ride/performance of your life!

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At Green Acres Ranch, Inc.

Keeley Bullard and Black Primo+/

H/A Country English Pleasure JOTR 14-18 H/A Ladies Side Saddle English JTR 18 & Under H/A English Show Hack JOTR and JTR 14-18

Cadberry

H/A Hunter Pleasure JOTR and JTR 14-18 H/A Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump 14-18

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Youth National Contenders

Saylor Weidauer and ROL Cygn Here+

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR & JTR 13 & Under Arabian Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump 13 & Under

Yahtzzee Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 13 & Under Arabian English Show Hack JTR 13 & Under Arabian Native Costume JTR 13 & Under Arabian Saddle Seat Equitation 13 & Under

Maya Kikuchi and KD BayonBay

Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under Arabian English Show Hack JTR 13 & Under Arabian Native Costume JTR 13 & Under

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At Green Acres Ranch, Inc.

Camille Welch and

KD Kontagious+

A/HA/AA Showmanship JTH 11-13

Olivia Welch and National Champion KD Kontagious+

Arabian Hunter Pleasure JOTR & JTR 14-18 Arabian Hunter Seat Equitation Not To Jump 14-18 A/HA/AA Showmanship JTH 14-18

Sam Weber and Reserve National Champion

Hit The Road Jack++/

H/A Country English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under UPHA Arabian Breeds Challenge Cup JTR 13 & Under H/A Saddle Seat Equitation 13 & Under H/A Native Costume JTR 13 & Under H/A Gelding Saddle/Pleasure JTH 18 & Under KRE Show Horses • Katherine Rich-Elzig 909-518-0100 • katherine_richgar@yahoo.com www.katherinerichelzig.com 124

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2014 Youth Nationals CONTENDERS

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Liza Lathrum RECIPIENT OF 2013 UPHA AWARD The Arabian Breed Sportsmanship 13 and Under

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

CHIHULY (PICTURED)

(Baske Afire x UF Starfire’s Salute)

2013 Youth National Top Ten H/A Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 2014 Region 10 Top Five H/A Country English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 14 & Under COMPETING IN:

H/A Country English Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18

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FISHNET STOCKINGS COMPETING IN:

UPHA Challenge Cup JTR 14-17 and H/A Saddle Seat Equitation 14-18

Liza Lathrum

PART Y ON WF (Baske Afire x Aparty Girl)

2013 Youth National Top Ten Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR and JTR 13 & Under 2014 Scottsdale Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 14 & Under COMPETING IN:

Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18

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Isabella Templeton

AFIRES HEIR APPARENT (Afires Heir x AF Ellenai)

2014 Region 12 Reserve Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure Open 2014 Region 10 Reserve Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 15-18 Region 10 Top Five Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 15-18 COMPETING IN:

Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18

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Isabella Templeton

CF MYSTERY MAN (Baske Afire x Tangled Heart)

2014 Region 10 Top Five HA Country English Pleasure 15-18 JTR COMPETING IN:

UPHA Challenge Cup JTR 14-17 H/A Country English Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18

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Taylor Richman

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

ON MY MEIND (Meistermind x Cocodrie)

2012 Canadian National Top Ten Arabian English Pleasure AAOTR 18-39 2012 Canadian National Champion Arabian English Pleasure JTR 17 & Under COMPETING IN:

Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR and JOTR 13 & Under

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Jaeda Isley VPA MISS MOLLIE (Aploz+// x Empyreal Eligance)

VPA MISS MOLLY

2010 Youth National Top Ten Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR 14-17

COMPETING IN:

COMPETING IN:

Class Here Class Here Class Here OWNED BY Aaaaaa

Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR and JOTR 13 & Under

WHATA TINY DANCER (Winterprinz x English Rose RM)

2013 Region 11 Reserve Champion H/A Hunter Pleasure Junior Horse 2014 Region 10 Top Five H/A Hunter Pleasure JOTR 17 & Under COMPETING IN:

H/A Hunter Pleasure JTR 13 & Under

AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

ROHARA MARCO POLO (QR Marc x Oliviah)

2013 U.S. National Top Ten H/A Hunter Pleasure Select AATR 2013 U.S. National Top Ten H/A Hunter Pleasure AAOTR Maturity COMPETING IN:

H/A Hunter Pleasure JOTR 13 & Under

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Allison Davis BOGOTA SCA (Afire Bey V x Brilliance V)

2014 Scottsdale Top Ten Arabian Country English Pleasure Select AATR 2014 Region 10 Top Five Arabian Country English Pleasure Select AATR COMPETING IN:

Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18

LAH LAH

(AA Apollo Bey x Fraska)

Multiple National Champion English Pleasure Amateur 2014 Buckeye Top Eight Arabian English Pleasure AOTR COMPETING IN:

Arabian English Pleasure JTR 14-18

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Allison Davis

CSP VINCENT VEGA (Vegaz x Vanity’s Gal)

2013 Youth National Top Ten H/A Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 2013 Youth National Reserve Champion UPHA Challenge Cup 13 & Under 2014 Region 10 Top Five H/A Country English Pleasure JOTR 15-18 COMPETING IN:

H/A Country English Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18

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Sales Opportunities

Whata Tiny Dancer

Fishnet Stockings

Second Millennium

VPA Miss Mollie

Reference Sire - Magnum Psyche

SF Stetson

KD Expression Heir

Marchesi

On My Meind

SOLD

Chihuly

FISHNET STOCKINGS

(Baske Afire x Ring Girl) 2007 H/A Chestnut Mare Region 10 Top Five H/A Country 19-39 Region 11 Top Five H/A Country

SECOND MILLENNIUM

(Millennium LOA+ x Infinity CSP) 2004 Bay Mare 2012 Youth National Top Ten Country JOTR/JTR 14-17 Multi-U.S. National Top Ten AOTR 18-35

VPA MISS MOLLIE

(Aploz+// x Empyreal Eligance) 2002 Chestnut Mare 2010 Youth National Top Ten Country JOTR 14-17

KD EXPRESSION HEIR

(IXL Noble Express+ x Eliza LA) 2006 Bay Gelding 2012 Youth National Top Ten Country JOTR/JTR 13 & Under 2011 U.S. National Top Ten AAOTR Maturity

SOLD

Tribute Thyme SA

Mastarks Delta Force

ROYAL FLUSH SKF

(Vegaz x Hillcroft Princess Royal) 2008 Chestnut Gelding H/A Country Gelding with superstar potential; limited showing.

MARCHESI

(Marwan Al Shaqab x Bey Atheyna) 2006 Bay Gelding U.S. National Top Ten Futurity Gelding Ready to win in amateur hunter pleasure.

Tons of quality.

ANIGHT AT THE ROXY

CHIHULY

(Pryme Thyme x Diamond Tribute) 2007 Bay Stallion U.S. National Champion Stallion 4-5 Year Olds, Champion Stallion AAOTH and U.S./Canadian National Champion Stallion.

PROUPORIE DDR

WHATA TINY DANCER

(Periaptor x Pro S Fieree) 1998 H/A Bay Mare Mult-National Top Ten H/A English Pleasure ATR

MAGGIE MAY LOA

(Apaladin++ x The Country Rose) 2008 H/A Grey Mare Full sibling to multi-National Champion Born To Boogie; extreme motion.

National champion potential.

(Millennium LOA x Byzance) 2004 H/A Chestnut Mare Multi-National Top Ten English Show Hack

COMIC STRIP

PHEOBES ASENSATION

(Justafire DGL x La Mirabella ASHA) 1999 H/A Bay Gelding Youth National Top Ten English JOTR/JTR 13 & Under.

Ready to go equitation mount.

TRIBUTE THYME SA

(Baske Afire x UF Starfire’s Salute) 2004 H/A Chestnut Gelding 2013 Youth National Top Ten H/A Country JTR 14-18 2012 Youth National Top Ten H/A Country JOTR/JTR 14-17

(A Temptation x Pheobe Afire) 2005 Chestnut Mare Both sire and dam are National Champions.

Had an exceptional colt by Vegaz; fantastic broodmare.

(Winterprinz x English Rose RM) 2009 H/A Chestnut Mare 2013 Region 11 Reserve Champion H/A Hunter Jr. Horse 2014 Region 10 Top Five H/A Hunter JOTR

CA Jeapordy

MASTARKS DELTA FORCE (Mastark x Delta Delta Deker) 2005 H/A Chestnut Gelding SOLD ~ Congratulations to Caroline Kereluk!

CA JEAPORDY

(Sultan’s Affirmative Action x Three Timeza Lady) 2003 H/A Chestnut Gelding SOLD ~ Congratulations to Lana and Kylee Deering!

SF STETSON

(Magnum Psyche x Simple Pleasures) 2011 Chestnut Gelding Hunter prospect

ON MY MEIND

(Meistermind x Cocodrie) 1998 Bay Mare 2012 Canadian National Top Ten English 18-39 AOTR 2012 Canadian National English JTR 17 and under

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E

in the Classic tradition of hunt

VG Georgio

Arabian hunter Pleasure JTR and JOTR 14-18

C

rimson Illusion

Half-Arabian Hunter Equitation not to jump

DC Arabians

Dru & Allison Cederberg Billings, Montana 406-245-2091

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You're Never Too Young To Start Riding Horses!

JB Golladay pr oud pa r ents John a n d L e a h B e th G ol l a day

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In Their Final Youth Nationals Appearance!

Toi Slamtastic CRF (Matoi x Fantasy Watch)

2013 Youth National Cha mpion H/A English Pleasure JOTR 14-18 and Vie wer ' s Choice Award Winner

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Laura Morton C e l e b r at i o n C h a m p i o n

CRF Intoxicating (Matoi x Glamorize)

2013 Region 10 Cha mpion H/A Country English Pleasure ATR 2013 Youth National Top Ten Half-Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 and Vie wer’s Choice Award Winner

Half-Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR & JTR 14-18 Proud Parents: Joe and Janice Morton Volume 45, No. 1 | youth 141

Allison Cederberg M u l t i - N at i o n a l C h a m p i o n

Shock And Awe DSF (Millennium LOA x Byzance)

Half-Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR & JTR 14-18 2014 Unanimous Scottsdale Champion H/A Country English Pleasure JOTR/JTR 15-18

M u l t i - N at i o n a l Champion

MSU Afire Blazon (Afire Bey V x Aieda)

Arabian English Pleasure JOTR & JTR 14-18 and Arabian Park

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Abby Weiby ERA Horacio (Baske Afire x Pavlova X)

Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR & JTR 14-18 2014 Region 10 Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR

Alicia CA Half-Arabian Country English Pleasure JTR 14-18 and Half-Arabian Country Driving JTD 18 & Under 2014 Region 10 Champion H/A Country English Pleasure Select Rider ATR 2014 Region 10 Champion H/A Country Pleasure Driving ATD

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Caelen Caspers

U n a n i m o u s N at i o n a l C h a m p i o n

Tres Kool

(Phi Slama Jama x NDL Anjelica)

2013 Unanimous Youth National Champion H/A Pleasure Driving JTD 18 & Under

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Lana Trautman M u l t i - N at i o n a l C h a m p i o n

SF Spellbound (Afire Bey V x Spectra PR)

2013 Youth National Top Ten Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR/JTR 13 & Under

Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR & JTR Arabian Saddle Seat Equitation 13 & Under Proud Parents: Bruce and Karna Trautm an Volume 45, No. 1 | youth 145

Alexa Tiziani

R e s e r v e N at i o n a l C h a m p i o n

Double Oh Sevenn (Hucklebey Berry x Mahoganyy )

2014 Scottsdale Champion Saddle Seat Equitation 14 & Under 2014 Scottsdale Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure 14 & Under

Arabian Country English Pleasure JOTR & JTR 13 & Under Arabian Saddle Seat Equitation 13 & Under

McKella Tiziani R e s e r v e N at i o n a l C h a m p i o n

Double Oh Sevenn (Hucklebey Berry x Mahoganyy )

2013 Youth National Top Ten Arabian Country English Pleasure and Saddle Seat Equitation Walk/Trot 10 & Under 2014 Region 10 Reserve Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure

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Classy Lady CRF

Brass Visions CRF (Photo is full sibling Ames Deja Vu)

Honoroll TRGR

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Classy Lady CRF

2010 Arabian Chestnut Gelding

2010 Half-Arabian Black Mare

Brass Visions CRF

My Phine Penny

2011 Arabian Chestnut Gelding

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(IXL Noble Express x Helen Hayes X)

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For more information, contact: Leah Beth Golladay 515-520-7604 • leah@cedarridgearabians.com

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2007 Arabian Bay Mare

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Kelley Clark

AL-MARAH SILVER CHARM+/

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Summer Princess JA+/ LAST YEAR COMPETING AT YOUTH NATIONALS …

H/A Saddle Seat Equitation JTR 14-18 H/A Mounted Native Costume JTR 14-18 H/A Mounted Native Costume JOTR 14-18 Available for Purchase

Trained by: Ross Tarkington Stables 214.405.7710

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“Ross, thank you for all you have done for me and Summer, bringing us together as a team. I truly appreciate you and the whole Ross Tarkington Stable team for all your hard work and dedication to the riders and horses in your care. You have helped me become the rider I am today, and I am grateful for the opportunity to have ridden in your barn.”

“A special thank you also to, Lyric Phillips, for all you have taught me.”

Megan Sitzman &

multi-national champion

Amerikan Eagle+// in their final ride together at Youth Nationals

Dear Nancy and Gary, Words cannot even begin to express how thankful I am to you for giving me the opportunity to ride such a special horse. Both of you are the kindest, most caring, selfless people I know and Eagle is truly lucky to call you mom and dad.

You have allowed me a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, because, like Eddie always says, there will never be another horse like Eagle in our lifetime. Over these past five years Eagle has taught me so much. Every trip, he gave me everything and then some, taking care of me every step of the way. Eagle is truly the master and I am the “young grasshopper.�

Thanks to your kindness and generosity, Eagle and I have accomplished: 3 National Championships, 3 National Top Tens, 3 Regional Championships, 1 Reserve Regional Championship, and 4 Regional Top Fives.

Dear Eddie and Mitzi, I do not even know where to begin in thanking you both. You have made me feel like part of the family since day one. Eddie, thank you for bringing Eagle and me together. You have given me the opportunity to ride one of the greatest cow horses ever.

Thank you for the countless hours of dedication to making me a better rider. You have taught me so much and helped shape me into the rider I am today. You push me to be not only a better rider, but also a better person.

Mitzi, thank you for welcoming me into your home. Thank you for all the wonderful meals you have cooked, from the Sunday morning pancakes to grilled cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise, and countless rides to and from the airport!

Thank you both for being there to support me in all my endeavors.

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the beginning of the 2014 Youth Nationals, the final practice lessons, show clothes fittings, and, lastly, Youth Yearbook questionnaires are tended to. With a theme of “Spotlight on the Stars,” this year’s questions lean toward movies, celebrities, music, and the magic of Youth Nationals. Young riders and handlers from all over have shared what they love about the Arabian horse, preserving a memento of childhood while instilling an eagerness for all that is to come in the Albuquerque sun!

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__________________________ __________________________ GRADUATING SENIORS __________________________ __________________________ Jordan Alvey

Julia Broome

Julia Broome

Trainer’s Name: Jim Lowe Farm Affiliation: Lowe Show Horse Centre Age: 18 Parent’s Names: David and Laura Broome

Trainer’s Name: Tish Kondas Farm Affiliation: Showtime Training Center Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Judi and Tim Alvey

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... try and hang out with Beyonce and Justin Timberlake!

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy more horses.

Three words that describe me are ... organized, determined, and adventurous.

Three words that describe me are ... laid back, quiet, and open minded.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, she would be ... Tyra Banks.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “A Thousand Miles,” by Vanessa Carlton.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to show my favorite teammate, Cher, this year for the first time.

After high school graduation I plan to ... to attend a college university in the fall.

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If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Jennifer Lawrence because she’s young, sassy, loud, and makes a huge statement!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I’m Gonna Be,” by Big Sean and Jhene Aiko.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... It is my last year riding and showing, which is bittersweet, but I am looking forward to making the most of my time at Youth Nationals and cherishing every last moment and experience.

After high school graduation I plan to ... attend Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. From there, I

Wyatt Budd plan on graduating with a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications and hopefully take over my dad’s television production company.

Wyatt Budd

Trainer’s Name: Dalton Budd and Kellie Wendling Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Mike and Terri Budd If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... throw a party.

Three words that describe me are ... confident, determined, and successful.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Mohammed Ali because he’s great in the ring.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Work Hard, Play Hard,” by Wiz Khalifa.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am excited to show all of my horses and compete against high quality riders.

After high school graduation I plan to ... go into the workforce of training and selling Arabian and Half-Arabian

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Maris Castang

Allison Cederberg

horses, and train under and learn from some of the best trainers in the country.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because … I am showing three truly special horses. One being my first horse I got when I was nine, the second being the horse that got me my first national championship and the third, a horse that is taking me for my first go in hunter pleasure at the national level.

After high school graduation I plan to … attend UGA and continue riding and showing.

Maris Castang

Trainer’s Name: Tish Kondas and Carla Schiltz Farm Affiliation: Showtime Training Center Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Jean Baptiste and Kimberly Castang If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is … travel the world if my bank account grew as much as my status did.

Three words that describe me are … laid back, dreamer, and honest.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Aleutian would be Al Pacino—no exact reason, he just gives off that sort of vibe. VF Playing With Fire would be Will Smith. We always say that Fire has a baby face and it seems like Will Smith’s face hasn’t aged at all, so it fits. Plus, they are both talented at what they do! BA True Blue would be Audrey Hepburn. She looks like she could be a cover model from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

If my life had a theme song, it would be … “Don’t Stop Me Now,” by Queen.

Allison Cederberg

Trainers’ Names: John Golladay, Leah Beth Golladay, Cynthia Burkman, Natalie Jones, Taryn Lundquist, Ricki Desiderio, Stephanie Desiderio and Michael Desiderio Farm Affiliation: Cedar Ridge Arabians, Burkman Centre, Tranquillity Farm Age: 18 Parent’s Name: Dru Cederberg If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... crash as many parties as possible.

Three words that describe me are ... feisty, energetic, and ginger.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Shocky would be Ryan Reynolds in “The Proposal” because he is a total

Mary Margaret Gilbert sweetheart. Georgio would be Adam Sandler because he is a complete goof ball. Louie would be the guy version of Hermione Granger because he is smart, ginger, and always has your back.

I don’t know who Blazon would be, but it would be definitely someone spicy!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... I honestly have no idea!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 ... to see all of my friends I only get to see once a year and to make unforgettable memories inside and outside of the ring.

After high school graduation I plan to ... attend Colorado State University and study Communications.

Mary Margaret Gilbert

Trainer’s Name: Laurie Long and Lynn Almond Farm Affiliation: Bay Area Equestrian Center Age: 18 Parent’s Names: John and Sandy Gilbert If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... travel all over the world.

Three words that describe me are ... loyal, fun, and caring.

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Matt Huke

Hannah Kulik

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Don’t Stop Believin’,” by Journey.

matter what happens in my life, I will always find a way to push through it.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Here’s to Never Growing Up,”

by Avril Lavigne.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am excited to ride and hang out with my friends.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to spend the entire show with the best team I could ever ask for!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am excited to ride my newest horse at Youth for the first time.

After high school graduation I plan to ... go to Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and study pre-med.

After high school graduation I plan to ... continue my work with the equine industry as an instructor.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Ryan Gosling because I like Ryan Gosling.

After high school graduation I plan to ... attend Texas A&M University and major in nursing.

Cassie Hagen

Trainer’s Name: Larry Hoffman Farm Affiliation: Hesten Park Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Suzi and Dave Hagen If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy myself an English horse.

Three words that describe me are ... happy, caring, and determined.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Channing Tatum because he is big, goofy, and attractive!

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Trainer’s Name: Kellie Wendling and Dalton Budd Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Jodi and Craig Huke If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... meet every famous person I could.

Three words that describe me are ... determined, hard-working, and willing.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Ashton Kutcher because he knows how to have fun while doing his job.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Titanium,” by David Guetta. No

Hannah Kulik

Trainer’s Name: Jim Lowe Farm Affiliation: Lowe Show Horse Centre Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Deborah and Glen Kulik If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... honestly, probably nothing different, but I would buy myself and my dad a Bentley!

Three words that describe me are ... funny, nice, and unique!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Shakira because Goose is very sweet, and he likes to wiggle around a lot!

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Erica Mark If my life had a theme song, it would be ... anything by Christina Aguilera, Iggy Azalea, Drake, Chris Brown, James Brown, or The Temptations!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am so excited to show my horse, Goose, see everyone from all of the other barns, and go to my favorite restaurant ever, Bravo!

After high school graduation I plan to ... work for a celebrity stylist and practice for Nationals this summer, then I am starting at Loyola Marymount University this fall and plan on majoring in Communication Studies and theater!

Erica Mark

Trainer’s Name: Tamara Collins Farm Affiliation: Earthquake Arabians LLC Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Bob and Shoshana Mark If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy 50 Arabian show horses!

Three words that describe me are ... intelligent, compassionate, and silly.

Mayree Nolan

Jordan Parr

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Jennifer Aniston because my horse is so beautiful, but also so sweet.

such an exciting group of horses to show this year. I’ve worked hard with my trainer, Brandon Flood, to build strong relationships with each horse throughout this season. I can’t wait!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Just Dance,” by Lady Gaga.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to be with my incredible horses. They are amazing athletes, but are also the best horses to be around.

After high school graduation I plan to ... study hard in college.

Mayree Nolan

Trainer’s Name: Brandon Flood Farm Affiliation: Flood Show Horses Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Sarah and Tom Nolan

After high school graduation I plan to ... spend the summer with my friends.

In the fall I plan on attending the University of Arizona. I look forward to finally living near my horses again and being back in Arizona. I can’t wait to take many different classes and figure out what I want to do.

Jordan Parr

Trainer’s Name: Jim Lowe Farm Affiliation: Lowe Show Horse Centre Age: 17 Parent’s Name: Bliss Landon

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... catch a plane to Paris with my best friends.

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... pose with my horses at my first red carpet event!

Three words that describe me are ... patient, kind, and easy-going.

Three words that describe me are ... outgoing, determined, and athletic.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am very excited and thankful to have

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt because them together is a smoking hot couple!

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Abigail Schounce

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Not Afraid,” by Eminem.

Menzel because it is my favorite song of all time.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to see my friends that I haven’t seen in forever; and milkshakes and pizza!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is possibly my last Youth Nationals, and I will be showing in many more classes with amazing horses than ever before.

After high school graduation I plan to ... go to college and figure out what I want to accomplish in life.

Mackenzie Potts

Trainer’s Name: Laurie Long Farm Affiliation: Bay Area Equestrian Center Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Kristin and Jeff Potts If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... fly to Australia.

Three words that describe me are ... silly, optimistic, and driven.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... John Travolta in Grease because he’s very proud.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Defying Gravity,” by Idina

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After high school graduation I plan to ... attend Colorado State University in the fall, and pursue an animal sciences/ pre vet major.

Abigail Schounce

Trainer’s Name: Kellie Wendling and Dalton Budd Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Kaline and Davaina Schounce If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... move to Paris! It’s my favorite place in the world!

Three words that describe me are ... practical, compassionate, and responsible (I’m kind of like the mother of the barn).

Sarah Schweitzer If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Sofia Vergara because they are both beautiful, temperamental divas that know they’re in charge!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Don’t Stop Believin’,” by Journey.

This describes my desire to always do my best in my riding career, no matter the competition. I will always have faith in myself and my horse!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this will be my last year at as I will age out. As sad as I am that it will be my last, I am ready for it to be my best and most unforgettable Youth Nationals yet!

After high school graduation I plan to ... attend Michigan State University to study Biology and Veterinary Medicine.

Sarah Schweitzer

Trainer’s Name: Vicki Humphrey, Jessica Clinton-DeSoto and Gabriel DeSoto Farm Affiliation: Vicki Humphrey Training Center Age: 18 Parent’s Name: Laurie Tomlinson

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Abigail Weiby

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... pay for my college.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is my favorite show of the year!

Three words that describe me are ... weird, athletic, and short.

After high school graduation I plan to ... attend Northern Arizona University and study business management, as well as studying fashion merchandising in the future.

I also plan on continuing to show horses, but in the NRHA circuit.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Kevin Hart because he’s small and he’s a goofball.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I can’t wait to see everyone that I only get to see once a year!

After high school graduation I plan to ... attend Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and study business and economics.

Amara Spizzirri

Trainer’s Name: Dan & Wendy Huss and Greg Harris Farm Affiliation: Huss Performance Horses/Jade Creek Arabians Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Miriam and Keith Spizzirri Three words that describe me are ... laid-back, funny, and nice.

Abigail Weiby

Trainer’s Name: John and Leah Golladay Farm Affiliation: Cedar Ridge Arabians Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Steve and Carolyn Weiby

Mackinley Wilson If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“On Top of the World,” by Imagine Dragons.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to be with my friends and the horses!

After high school graduation I plan to ... attend George Washington University.

Mackinley Wilson

Trainer’s Name: Larry & Jody Hoffman and Rick Nab Farm Affiliation: Hesten Park Age: 19 Parent’s Names: Kris Vasko and Joe Wilson

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... high-five Robert Downey Jr, because he’s Iron Man, and that’s pretty cool.

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... travel the world and then get my own reality TV show and call it, “The Crazy Life of Mackinley Wilson.” I think it has a nice ring to it!

Three words that describe me are ... id, ego, and super ego.

Three words that describe me are ... hardworking, genuine, and sassy!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Carrot Top because they are both red and curly.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Will Smith because just like Will, Bugsy has many talents and likes to work hard!

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Sarah Beth Womble If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Good Time,” by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen. The title says it all!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is unlike any other show I go to—it is super fun and I love that it brings together youth from across the U.S. and Canada. I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to go to Youth once again. It is a great way to end my youth show career!

Sarah Beth Womble

Trainer’s Name: Joel and Ashton Kiesner, and Tommy Garland Farm Affiliation: Kiesner Training and Garlands LTD Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Mickey and Dee Dee Womble

Gabi Aguirre I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to see all of my friends who I only see once a year at Youth!

After high school graduation I plan to ... attend the University of Alabama.

__________________________ __________________________ 14-18 __________________________ __________________________ Gabi Aguirre

Trainer’s Name: Joel and Ashton Kiesner Farm Affiliation: Kiesner Training Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Kelli and Gerry Aguirre If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... provide people with the opportunity to discover more about the Arabian horse and enjoy them as much as I do.

Three words that describe me are ... outgoing, friendly, and dedicated.

Three words that describe me are ... motivated, cool-headed, and sarcastic.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “The Lazy Song,” by Bruno Mars.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Kim Kardashian because she thinks she’s all that.

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Tabitha Bell If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Beamer, Benz, or Bentley,” by Lloyd Banks.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to spend time with my family, friends, and horses.

Tabitha Bell

Trainer’s Name: Vickey Bowman and Jonathan Ramsay Farm Affiliation: Silver Lane Training Center and Stachowski Farms Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Paul and Jennifer Bell If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... fund the non-profit, Pawsitive Pawsibilities that I started this year to buy service dogs for kids.

Three words that describe me are ... fearless, focused, and cheerful.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Zim would be Luke Bryan because he is strong, handsome, and loyal. Stella would be Carrie Underwood because she is beautiful, sweet, and talented.

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Amanda Burns If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Titanium,” by David Guetta; I have titanium rods in my back and ankles.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I was unable to attend last year due to recovering from surgery. I also have a new western horse and I am showing my sister’s horse, Zim It Up, for the first time.

Amanda Burns

Trainer’s Name: Dede Bisch and Tyson Randle Farm Affiliation: Bisch Training and Tyson Randle Reining Horses Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Danny and Deborah Burns If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go shopping!

Three words that describe me are ... intelligent, hard worker, and funny.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Paris Hilton because for one, that’s her actual name, but she really does have the physical characteristics of being Paris Hilton.

Caelen Caspers If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Happy,” by Pharrell Williams.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I have worked hard all year to compete here.

Caelen Caspers

Trainer’s Name: John Golladay Farm Affiliation: Cedar Ridge Arabians Age: 16 Parent’s Names: Christine and Philip Caspers If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... pay back my parents for all of the money they put into me and my riding and academic career.

Three words that describe me are ... active, creative, and dedicated.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Mitchell from Modern Family because Trey (Tres Kool), like Mitchell, is ginger, very smart, goofy, opinionated and very demanding, especially when it comes to treats.

Kate Charnesky If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Lose Yourself,” by Eminem because the song is about dedicating yourself solely to one thing so much so that you lose yourself in it and I find that that happens to me when I ride.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... last year’s Nationals was so incredible, that I can only imagine that this year I will learn and improve as much, if not more, than I did last year. I love the atmosphere of Youth Nationals and the support given by my friends and even people I don’t know. I hope that this year I can push Trey and I to the best of our ability and ride hard. With this being my second year of Nationals, I’m excited to see what round two will bring!

Kate Charnesky

Trainer’s Name: Shan Wilson Farm Affiliation: Chrishan Park Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Chris and Ginny Charnesky If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... pay forward my blessings and give back to my community.

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Isabel Chism

Keeley Clark

Three words that describe me are ... determined, strong-minded, and caring.

Three words that describe me are ... adventurous, social, and dedicated.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Will Farrell because Boogie is an equine comedian with great facial expressions, especially when getting his massages!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Albert Einstein because he’s smart!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Best Shot,” by Birdy and Jaymes Young.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this is my first trip to Youth Nationals. I have dreamed of this experience, since the time I was told about my Aunt Cheryl being Reserve National Champion Open Native Costume at age 18 and this was before they split adult & youth nationals! I am looking forward to having great rides and drives with my best friend, Boogie!

Isabel Chism

Trainer’s Name: Chad Roberts Farm Affiliation: Rushlow’s Arabians Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Lisa and Bruce Chism If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy more horses!

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If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I Love It,” by Icona Pop. I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to show my horse and see my friends.

Keeley Clark

Trainer’s Name: Kassie Farm Affiliation: Al-Marah Arabian Horses Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Deidre and Steve Clark If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... travel the world.

Three words that describe me are ... laid-back, adventurous, and fun.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Johnny Deep because my horse has a similar sassy attitude.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Happy,” by Pharrell.

Katelynn Cox I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it’s one of my favorite shows of the year because there are so many activities that go on and the competition is really good.

Katelynn Cox

Trainer’s Name: Dalton Budd and Kellie Wendling Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses Age: 18 Parent’s Names: David and Tonia Cox If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go horse shopping!

Three words that describe me are ... responsible, hardworking, and fun.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Katy Perry because she’s sweet and confident.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Don’t Stop Believin’,” by Journey.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... It’s my last year, and after all the time I have put in, I am ready to show!

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Allison Davis

Allison Davis

Trainer’s Name: Ryan Strand and Elise Worman Farm Affiliation: Liberty Meadows Training Center Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Barry and Charity Davis If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... travel around the world and meet fascinating people.

Jenna Dillin

Jenna Dillin

Trainer’s Name: Randy Anderson and Eddie Ralston Farm Affiliation: Western Cross Arabians and Pintos, Ralston Training Center Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Linden and Holly Dillin If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy lots of beautiful horses!

Three words that describe me are ... smart, funny, and mature.

Three words that describe me are ... feisty, fun, and determined!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Ryan Reynolds because my horse, Vincent Vega, is laid back, handsome, and very charismatic (also because I want to be Blake Lively)!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Zayn Malik from One Direction because Einstein always has the cutest expressions!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Flawless,” by Beyonce.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I like being in the horse show bubble with my friends (water fights) and competing against some of the best horses!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Short People,” by Randy Newman.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am obviously looking forward to showing, but I am also excited about the delicious food and water ballooning!

Sarah Esqueda

Sarah Esqueda

Trainer’s Name: Cynthia Burkman Farm Affiliation: The Burkman Centre Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Tony and Keri Esqueda If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... put on a concert and give the money to charity because I would be a famous singer!

Three words that describe me are ... outgoing, loving, and determined.

If my horse were a famous celebrity …

HP Guns and Roses would be Michael Jackson. Everyone knows how Pistol moves his hocks—he and Michael have the best moves out there!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Do My Thang,” by Miley Cyrus.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... Youth Nationals is always a fun show for me. I love seeing my family in the stands supporting me. I also love hanging out with my friends. Every time I ride my horses, it’s such a blessing.

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Hannah Feldman

Trainer’s Name: Donna Waggoner Farm Affiliation: Buona Vista Arabians/ Donna Waggoner Training Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Julie and Gary Feldman If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... hire a personal chef and buy a few beautiful Arabian horses!

Three words that describe me are ... determined, weird, and energetic!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Rihanna because she’s sassy, yet beautiful.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Life is a Highway,” by Rascal Flatts.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to show my horses and see my friends!

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Raven Gropp

Trainer’s Name: Vicki Humphrey and Jessica Clinton-DeSoto Farm Affiliation: Vicki Humphrey Training Center Age: 16 Parent’s Names: Jeanne and Billy Gropp If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... have my truck lifted, install a wench, and then take it muddin’!

Three words that describe me are ... determined, hard-working, and ambitious.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Larry the Cable Guy because Apollo is very laid-back and doesn’t care about much of anything.

Skylar Gunlicks my friends from around the country and watch all of them show.

Skylar Gunlicks

Trainer’s Name: Kellie Wendling and Dalton Budd Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses Age: 15 Parent’s Names: Tom and Sarah Gunlicks If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... give a well-deserved shout-out to Arabian horses!

Three words that describe me are ... encouraging, outgoing, and cheeky.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “She’s Country,” by Jason Aldean.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Josh Hutcherson because he’s a kid at heart, but actually perfect at the same time—he’s great!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it’s the only show that I get to hang out with all

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I Won’t Give Up,” by Jason Mraz. As gushy as it sounds, it

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Sophia Handel

Kinkéla Harkins

represents my past few show years in its simplest form.

would be ... Miley Cyrus because he loves to have his tongue out.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I feel like youth is when you’re at your prime in the show season and you get to show off what you have worked so hard for all year. Also, being with your barn friends and the far-away friends you don’t always get to see and doing absolutely everything with them.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Fergalicious.”

Sophia Handel

Trainer’s Name: Gabe DeSoto Farm Affiliation: VHTC Age: 16 Parent’s Names: Ellen and Jeff Handel If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... use my fame and influence to meet and subsequently marry Harry Styles (and also promote the Arabian horse).

Three words that describe me are ...

Sassy, kind, and determined.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I can’t wait to see all my friends, hit up the Baskin Robbins in Tingley and, of course, show!

Kinkéla Harkins

Trainer’s Name: Joel Kiesner Farm Affiliation: Kiesner Training Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Keith and Kristin Harkins If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... order ten boxes of pizza for my personal jet ride to the Galápagos Islands and go scuba diving with hammerhead sharks (possibly with Johnny Depp).

Three words that describe me are ... hungry, nerdy, and friendly.

Luciana Hernandez If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Smaug from The Hobbit because he can breathe fire.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Vienna,” by Billy Joel.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I’m excited to show my dragon and I’m looking forward to meeting new friends.

Luciana Hernandez

Trainer’s Name: Christy Higman-Clements Farm Affiliation: Christy Higman-Clements Training Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Barbara Blanck and Eddie Hernandez If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... use my new fame to bring awareness to environmental problems in the world like the destruction of forests and global warming. And, of course, I would definitely buy myself a couple of new horses!

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Sarah Jayne Johnson

Sofia Kavanaugh

Three words that describe me are ... funny, friendly, and honest.

Three words that describe me are ... loud, blonde and a shopaholic.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Josh Hutcherson because he reminds me of Axiom because they are both handsome, sweet, and small in size, but have big hearts.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Dave Franco because Niles is good looking and pretends to be obnoxious when he’s a good guy like Dave.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Happy,” by Pharell Williams.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is the one time a year when I can see ALL my riding friends in the same place. It is also my last year riding in 13 & Under.

Sarah Jayne Johnson

Trainer’s Name: Jim Lowe Farm Affiliation: Lowe Show Horse Centre Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Glen and Lesley Johnson If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go out on a shopping spree!

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If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Jesus, Take The Wheel,” by Carrie Underwood .

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is one of my last times at Youth, and I am hoping to make it the best one yet!

Sofia Kavanaugh

Trainer’s Name: Megan Jenkins-Lewis Farm Affiliation: Earthquake Arabians Age: 15 Parent’s Names: Luisa Munoz and Michael Kavanaugh Three words that describe me are ... crazy, unique, and passionate.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I have never been to Youth Nationals before; it is

Karenne Koessler probably the biggest opportunity I have had so far in competing at a national level. I have been preparing for this show for a long time and I am ready and excited to face the challenge.

Karenne Koessler

Trainer’s Name: Christy Higman-Clements Farm Affiliation: Christy Higman-Clements Training Age: 17 Parent’s Name: Robert Koessler If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy more horses.

Three words that describe me are ... outgoing, athletic, and independent.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, he would be … a Drag Queen.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Radioactive,” by Imagine Dragons.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I can see all of my out-of-state friends and enjoy my time with my horse.

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Shanon Koessler

Shanon Koessler

Trainer’s Name: Christy Higman-Clements Farm Affiliation: Christy HigmanClements Training Age: 15 Parent’s Names: Delma and Robert Koessler If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go shopping!

Three words that describe me are ... independent, confident, and optimistic.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, he would be … a rock star!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Turn Down for What,” by DJ Snake and Lil Jon. I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it’s my first year in 14-18 and I get to see my friends.

Kasey Kreske

Trainer’s Name: Tamara Collins Farm Affiliation: Earthquake Arabians Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Katie and David Kreske

Kasey Kreske Three words that describe me are ... artistic, outgoing, and original.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Hott Copy (aka Prince) would be Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing from Friends. Chandler always seems to be “that guy,” the funny one. Prince is like “that guy” at the barn, too.

Prince and Chandler both have very quirky personalities!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... definitely be “Follow Your Arrow,”

by Kacey Musgraves!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I’ve dreamed about riding at Nationals ever since I started showing. It means a lot to me to be showing my own horse. He was a true diamond in the rough in a pasture, and for me to show him at nationals is truly unbelievable for the both of us.

Nicole Krueger

Trainer’s Name: Jim Lowe Farm Affiliation: Lowe Show Horse Centre

Nicole Krueger Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Brian and Lori Krueger If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... spend all my money buying horses, and spoiling them.

Three words that describe me are ... hard-working, optimistic, and trustworthy.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Penelope Cruz, because that’s her name!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Applause,” by Lady Gaga! This is especially true while I’m showing because it is so exciting to hear the audience applaud and cheer while I am in a class.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is my opportunity to show everyone how much Penny and I have improved since last year’s Youth Nationals.

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Emily Kuras

Trainer’s Name: Marggie RushlowRoberts and Chad Roberts Farm Affiliation: Rushlow’s Arabians Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Mary Gallagher Kuras and Patrick Kuras If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy horses for all of my friends who have not been able to have one of their own.

Three words that describe me are ... hard-working, dedicated, and kind.

If my horse were a famous celebrity …

Jazz would be Jensen Ackles because he is goofy and sweet, and Valentine would be Hugh Laurie because he is silly and smart.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “The Fighter,” by Gym Class Heroes.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this is my first year in 14-18 and I want to see if I can run with the big dogs!

Nikki Larson

Trainer’s Name: Jon Ramsay and Jessica Bein Farm Affiliation: Stachowski Farms

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Nikki Larson and Bein Performance Horses Age: 14 Parent’s Names: John and Lori Larson If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a barn and horses to fill it!

Three words that describe me are ... fun, outgoing, and kind.

If my horse were a famous celebrity …

Noble Hunter would be Blake Sheldon because he thinks he’s all that, and Chics Dig It would be Iggy Azalea because she’s funny and seems crazy.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... not just one song but a radio station because of all the variety.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to see all my friends and just have fun!

Liza Lathrum

Trainer’s Name: Ryan Strand and Elise Worman Farm Affiliation: Liberty Meadows Training Center Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Mick and Kim Lathrum

Liza Lathrum If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... I would go out and buy my dream horse, give a bunch of money to all my friends and family, and also donate to some of my favorite charities.

Three words that describe me are ... outgoing, goofy, and determined.

If my horse were a famous celebrity …

Chihuly would be Jim Carey because he is quite entertaining and silly—he is like a big kid! Considering his size of 17 hands, he is also a big chicken!

Party On WF (aka PO) would be John Travolta because he’s generous, handsome, and quiet. PO always works hard for me—he is a pleaser and super sweet on the ground and on his back.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “On Top of the World,” by Imagine Dragons, because it has a happy beat and great lyrics. There is a verse in this song that to me, describes a progression on all of us in Albuquerque that have been working hard to get here! And it goes as so: “Been waiting on this for a while now, paying my dues to the dirt. Take you with me if I can been dreaming of this since a child. I’m on top of the world!”

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MiKenna LaVenture I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I always have a great time when I’m in Albuquerque; it is what I look forward to most of the year! I enjoy meeting up with my friends, competing, and watching my friends compete. It is the time when it all comes together (hopefully) to see all my hard work pay off—the freezing cold lessons in the winter when I could not feel my toes, the 100 degree days with bleeding rubs on my knees, and blisters on my fingers were all worth every second!

MiKenna LaVenture

Trainer’s Name: Shannon Beethe Farm Affiliation: Beethe Arabians Age: 15 Parent’s Names: Michael and Kara LaVenture If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... travel around the world.

Three words that describe me are ... athletic, hard-working, and fun. I love playing sports, especially basketball, and I love being busy with activities, school, and friends.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Channing Tatum because he is strong, athletic, and a stud muffin!

Molly Madden If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Everything is AWESOME,” from the Lego Movie.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to hang out with all my horse friends for such a long period of time, and I get to spend time riding and competing with a fun horse!

Molly Madden

Trainer’s Name: Scott Scheyli Farm Affiliation: Scott Scheyli Performance Horses Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Kevin and Jill Madden If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go to a really nice restaurant and not have to be put on the wait list.

Three words that describe me are ... determined, hard-working, and relentless.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Jim Carey because my horse never stops “talking” when he wants something and he’s pretty awkward!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “All This Time,” by OneRepublic.

Abbi McComb That’s what I use for my Hunt Seat Equitation patterns!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love competing and having fun at the same time, and Youth is the perfect place for that!

Abbi McComb

Trainer’s Name: Kellie Wendling and Dalton Bud Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Ken and Karen McComb If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... rescue abused and wild horses from slaughter.

Three words that describe me are ... silly, peachy, and majestic.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Vinny from The Jersey Shore because Vito Valentino thinks he’s cool. Strikes So Sassy would be Jennifer Lawrence because she is very unexpectedly talented.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Wake Me Up,” by Avicii because it is about growing and changing and finding who you want to be.

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Abby Mills I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I’m excited to see all the people and friends I have met throughout my showing career, and getting to work and enjoying the show me, my horses, and teammates have been working so hard for all year.

Abby Mills

Trainer’s Name: Chad Roberts Farm Affiliation: Rushlow’s Arabians Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Nick and Amy Mills If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go to a celebrity party to meet actors, starting with Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston.

Kutloano Moloi I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love showing my horses and hanging out with my barn friends.

Kutloano Moloi

Trainer’s Name: Dede Bisch Farm Affiliation: Bisch Training Age: 15 Parent’s Name: Nchakha Moloi If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... call my friends and maybe go jolling, or go out.

Three words that describe me are ... rough, gentle, and kind.

Three words that describe me are ... funny, food-loving, and fan-girl.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … it’s still my horse, nothing different—I would never sell it.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Will Arnet because he can be very goofy and funny, but also focused and consistent.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... jolling songs.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Don’t You Forget About Me,” by Simple Minds (from ‘The Breakfast Club’).

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I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I want to try do better and I have set higher goals.

Sefenya Moloi

Sefenya Moloi

Trainer’s Name: Dede Bisch Farm Affiliation: Bisch Training Age: 14 Parent’s Name: Nchakha Moloi If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... tell my family, tell my friends, and I would take my family on a trip.

Three words that describe me are ... skilled, amazing, and fast.

If my horse were a famous celebrity ... it wouldn’t make a difference to me.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Township Funk,’ by DJ Mujava .

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am going to see some of my friends, and make my dream possible by getting top ten.

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Shelby Norris

Shelby Norris

Hews Oldham

Hews Oldham

Trainer’s Name: Ryan Strand Farm Affiliation: Liberty Meadows Training Center Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Mike and Chrissy Norris

Trainer’s Name: Vicki Humphrey, Jessica Clinton-DeSoto and Gabe DeSoto Farm Affiliation: Vicki Humphrey Training Center Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Matt and Kathy Oldham

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... probably go buy lots of fancy horses.

Three words that describe me are ... hard-working, determined, and talkative.

Three words that describe me are ... sweet, determined, and cheerful.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Lady Gaga because my horse Kim, has very crazy puffy hair.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “On Top Of The World,” by Imagine Dragons.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love being able to show horses! I have been working hard and looking forward all summer to come show, hang out with my friends, and get Kevin Price back in the water fights!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Counting Stars,” by One Republic.

Anna Redmond If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... try to step out of fame. I want to be surrounded by real and honest people. There’s no way I would trade my family, friends, and horses for a life that seems more glamorous only on the outside.

Three words that describe me are ... I … love … horses.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love the competition and being with all of my friends that I don’t always get to see.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Taylor Swift because Kharben would love to write songs about how much he loves me, and how he’s breaking up with me since I didn’t bring him to Youth Nationals.

Anna Redmond

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Dirt Road Prayer,” by Lauren Alaina.

Trainer’s Name: Susan Shea, Brett Becker, Joel Kiesner, Cynthia Burkman and Tyson Randle Farm Affiliation: Wolf Springs Ranch, Becker Stables, Kiesner Training, Burkman Centre and Tyson Randle Reining Horses Age: 16 Parent’s Names: Tom & Carmen Redmond

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I look forward to making more memories with my best friends! I’ve spent nearly every day of this year at the barn, and I feel that I’ve gotten to know my horses a lot better. My trainers have all worked hard to prepare us for the show that we work for all year. I want to ride

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Faith Robbins my best for my horses—they’ve given so much to me.

Faith Robbins

Trainer’s Name: Kellie Wendling and Dalton Budd Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses Age: 15 Parent’s Names: Mike and Lori Robbins If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... move to California.

Three words that describe me are ... passionate, outgoing, and ambitious.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Lisa Vanderpump because she has class and sass!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,”

by Cyndi Lauper, because I am always having fun!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I can’t wait to show my horses and make great memories with my barn!

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Victoria Roe

Trainer’s Name: Jessica Bein Farm Affiliation: Bein Perfomance Horses Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Luke and Denise Roe

Elaina Roeder have found the success I’m looking for.

And, of course, I’m excited for the Oreo milkshakes from Baskin Robbins!

Elaina Roeder

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... host affordable missionary trips to third world countries for those who are interested in and have a heart for the less fortunate.

Trainer’s Name: Shan Wilson and Lori Ross Farm Affiliation: ChriShan Park Age: 15 Parent’s Names: Kristin and Edwin Roeder

Three words that describe me are ... spontaneous, loving, and dedicated.

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... see how many followers I gained on Instagram.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Beyoncé because she is fierce and strong willed.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Something To Believe In,” by Parachute.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this year I have worked so hard on improving needed areas on the horses I will be competing on. I am excited to see how hard work pays off. Whether or not that process involves roses, I will have success as my key. If I get off of my horse and feel as though I improved and rode to the very best of my ability, then I will

Three words that describe me are ... hard-working, funny, and athletic.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Justin Timberlake because he is handsome, tall, smooth, and has great moves.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “The Fighter,” by Gym Class Heroes—“there is no reason you should ever have your head down.”

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I have a new equitation horse and I am ready to drive my national champion purebred.

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Makenna Rooker

Makenna Rooker

Trainer’s Name: Dalton Budd, Kellie Wendling, Joe Reser, Jeff Shall and Shawn & Carmelle Rooker Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses, Setting Sun Stables and Rooker Training Stables Age: 16 Parent’s Names: Shawn and Carmelle Rooker If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... raise awareness for abused horses and open a horse rescue.

Three words that describe me are ... ambitious, nice, and annoyinglypersistent!

If my horse were a famous celebrity …

Elle would be Emma Watson because she is so smart and innocent and just does her own thing. Renny would be Scott Disick because he knows he is a big deal. Ambienze would be Boo the Pomeranian because she is like a lap dog and always wants people’s affection, and lastly, I am pretty sure that Diva is a celebrity herself.

Shelby Scanlan

Megan Sitzman

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “White Horse,” by Taylor Swift.

The lyrics are completely irrelevant but I have a white horse and she is pretty cute.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Dale Earnhardt Jr. because he likes to go fast, but sometimes he crashes and burns.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is easily the best show of the year!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” by Bob Marley.

Shelby Scanlan

Trainer’s Name: Jim Lowe Farm Affiliation: Lowe Show Horse Centre Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Pete and Deanna Scanlan If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... advocate for social justice issues and always stay a positive model for others. There’s a lot going on in the world that most people are unaware of, and it is important that more people start speaking up about it. And, of course, with all that extra money I’m making I would buy another horse … or two.

Three words that describe me are ...

Hard-working, kind, and positive.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I can’t wait to see what my horse and I can accomplish.

Megan Sitzman

Trainer’s Name: Randy Anderson, Eddie Ralston and Ross Tarkington Farm Affiliation: Western Cross Arabians and Pintos, Ralston Training Center and Ross Tarkington Stables Age: 18 Parent’s Names: Joe and Therese Sitzman If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... co-star in a move with Zac Efron so we could fall madly in love.

Three words that describe me are ... multi-faceted, spunky, and clever.

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Megan Southall If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Melman from Madagascar because my horse, Cazz, always seems to have some sort of issue that requires medical attention.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I Lived,” by OneRepublic.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to spend time with my horse show family having fun doing what we love— showing Arabian horses.

Megan Southall

Jenna TeKolste would be … because of our hard work and dedication..

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Hall of Fame,” by will.i.am and The Script.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to show and share my joy and love for the Arabian horse.

Jenna TeKolste

Trainer’s Name: Larry and Jody Hoffman Farm Affiliation: Hesten Park Age: 15 Parent’s Names: Rob and Kari TeKolste

Trainer’s Name: Megan Jenkins-Lewis Farm Affiliation: Earthquake Arabians Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Kelly and Patti Southall

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... start a charity for kids who cannot ride and find ways for them to spend time with horses.

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... ride my horse.

Three words that describe me are ... unique, driven, and effervescent.

Three words that describe me are ... kind, passionate, and happy.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it

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If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Martha Stewart because she is a very caring, quiet, and reliable lady, but has spunk!

Isabella Templeton If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Back Home,” by Andy Grammer.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... my horses are kick butt!

Isabella Templeton

Trainer’s Name: Ryan Strand and Elise Worman Farm Affiliation: Liberty Meadows Training Center Age: 16 Parent’s Names: Dedee and John Templeton If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go on a GIANT shopping spree!

Who doesn’t like new things?

Three words that describe me are ... funny, dorky, and extremely loud!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Patrick Dempsey because Manny he thinks he’s McDreamy.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

Don’t You Forget About Me,” by Simple Minds (from ‘The Breakfast Club’).

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Kierstin Thigpen

Lauren Tokash

Tatym Vargas

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is my horse’s first year at Youth Nationals and my first show season with him.

Plus, I get to show in some purebred classes again.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is another year to show everyone what my horse and I have worked so hard to accomplish.

always working for what I want—I never get anything handed to me. It’s finally time for me to live out my dreams, and when they come true, it’ll feel a whole lot more accomplishing knowing that I worked hard for it.

Kierstin Thigpen

Trainer’s Name: Marggie RushlowRoberts and Chad Roberts Farm Affiliation: Rushlow’s Arabians Age: 17 Parent’s Names: Jon and Carol Tokash

Lauren Tokash

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... It’s been a dream of mine since I was 12. I never thought that my family could afford it or a horse. The past couple of years I’ve finally earned the money for not only a horse, but horse shows to qualify for Youth Nationals, and Youth itself.

After watching my best friend go to Youth Nationals for her first time, and become a national champion, makes me even more thrilled!

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch Age: 14 Parent’s Names: Kim Thigpen and Fred Thigpen If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... play a starring role in the next Spiderman movie.

Three words that describe me are ... athletic, determined, and intelligent.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Channing Tatum because all the girls fall for his gorgeous looks and classic charm.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Magic,” by Coldplay.

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... move my family and my closest friends into a mansion.

Three words that describe me are ... a dreamer, a thinker, and sassy.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Josh Hutcherson because he’s not a trouble maker, is a great person, and he happens to be dropdead gorgeous!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Change,” by Taylor Swift. I’m

Tatym Vargas

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch Age: 16 Parent’s Name: Barbara Magnino If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... record my own album!

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Olivia Welch

Bailey Bostwick

Mary Catherine Buchanan

Three words that describe me are ... sassy, determined, and stubborn.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Take It Easy,” by The Eagles.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Let It Go,” by Idina Menzel.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Chris Hemsworth because he’s manly and has good hair.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I can’t wait to show off how hard my horse and I have worked over this past show season.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this is my first Youth Nationals and I’m excited to take my new horse!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Boom Clap,” by Charli XCX. I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I’m showing a good group of horses!

Olivia Welch

Trainer’s Name: Katherine Rich-Elzig Farm Affiliation: KRE Show Horses @ Green Acres Ranch Age: 16 Parent’s Names: Jim and Shannon Welch If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go on a no-budget shopping spree, and buy all new clothes as well as all new horse related things.

Three words that describe me are ... driven, sassy, and hard working.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Usain Bolt because a few years ago he got loose and ran about five miles!

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Mary Catherine Buchanan

Trainer’s Name: Kim Arranaga Farm Affiliation: Kim Arranaga Performance Horses along with Cactus Rose Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Bill and Rena Buchanan

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... throw a party with all my family and friends.

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... just be myself, and prove to the world that you don’t have to pretend to be someone who you are not, and that people should love you for all your qualities. And after that, I will have pie for breakfast, and ride bareback on top of my horse, showing my care-free happy nature.

Three words that describe me are ... audacious, allegiant, and ambitious.

Three words that describe me are ... poised, comfortable, and loving.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... the Energizer Bunny, because she just keeps going and going.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Hunter Hayes because Hunter loves being someone’s “person,” the one who is always there for you,

Trainer’s Name: Dede Bisch Farm Affiliation: Bisch Training @ Los Cedros Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Rob and Suzanne Bostwick

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Maya Chavez under any circumstances. My horse has the same personality, always there for me, filling a role that no other has in my life.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Best Day of My Life,” by American Authors, because every day I try to make the best of everything, living life to the fullest.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this is my first experience there. I feel honored to have qualified to compete against the best young riders of the nation. The competition at Youth will be a very important, exciting event in my life.

I am certain that it will change my character for the better.

Maya Chavez

Trainer’s Name: Kristen Valencia Farm Affiliation: Valencia Farms Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Carlos and Delia Chavez / Gina Chavez If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... purchase a ranch and turn it into a horse sanctuary for horses who need assistance in healing. I would provide

Jenna Curley

Emma Freeland

top quality hay, pasture, and grain. Any horse would be welcome.

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a horse farm and start a rescue center for horses.

Three words that describe me are ... jubilant, horse-crazy, and dedicated.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... definitely, Will Ferrell because this actor and my horse have wonderful comedic-like personalities and they always get a good laugh out of me.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Happy,” by Pharrell Williams.

No matter how sad the situation, I can turn it into a happy moment.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... being that Youth Nationals is held in my home town of Albuquerque, this show is twice as exciting. I live for the moment that my horse and I enter the arena and give our best effort.

Jenna Curley

Trainer’s Name: Gordon Potts and Chris Hall Farm Affiliation: The Brass Ring and Rockledge Arabians Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Robert and Sheila Curley

Three words that describe me are ... clumsy, funny, and blonde.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... James Bond because he is so calm and cool.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... don’t know! I don’t have one yet!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it’s been a while since I showed at Youth. I’m looking forward to showing and watching the classes.

Emma Freeland

Trainer’s Name: Cheryl Fletcher and Mike Whelihan Farm Affiliation: Silver Aspen Ranch and Whelihan Arabian Farms Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Sean and Jody Freeland If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a really nice English horse.

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Danelle Galloway Three words that describe me are ... wicked, wild, and awesome.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would ... become a national champion.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I love It,” by Icona Pop. I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... all my friends will be there and the competition is tough. When you win, you feel a great sense of accomplishment.

Danelle Galloway

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Donald and Michele Galloway If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a huge horse ranch!

Three words that describe me are ... kind, fun, and determined.

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Julisa Gomez

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Madonna because she is the queen of pop and my horse is definitely the queen!

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Mister Mamage CW would be Olaf because he’s cute, funny and caring.

Ssteam would be Liam Hemsworth because he’s tall, handsome and sweet.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,”

by Cyndi Lauper.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to catch up with my friends that I have not seen in a year, and get to ride some amazing horses!

Hattie George

Trainer’s Name: Alexis Scott Farm Affiliation: AKS Farms Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Sue George and Michelle Price If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a barn and fill it with horses!

Three words that describe me are ... shy, spunky, and imaginative.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Compass,” by Lady Antebellum, or “Ain’t It Fun,” by Paramore.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to show two different seats this year, I get to see all of my friends, and I get to show!

Julisa Gomez

Trainer’s Name: Kristen Valencia Farm Affiliation: Valencia Farms Age: 11 Parent’s Names: Sylvia Guillen If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... use it to advocate natural-horsemanship training in the horse showing industry.

Three words that describe me are ... sprightly, a comedian, and giving.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Bruce Lee because Jeriko

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Marianna Graziadio has ninja-like qualities that I have yet to see in another horse.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Best Day of My Life,” by American Authors. I am always looking forward to every day and trying my best.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... last year would have been my first year at Youth Nationals, but I broke my arm and was unable to attend. I am beyond excited to attend this year and be part of this amazing competition!

Marianna Graziadio

Trainer’s Name: Kim Arranaga Farm Affiliation: Kim Arranaga Performance Horses along with Cactus Rose Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Beth and Louis Graziadio

Chance Harvey If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Johnny Depp because Pysgon (aka Gunner) is funny, hardworking, and nice to look at!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Live Like a Warrior,” by Matisyahu, because it’s inspiring and fun.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love the competition, but I also enjoy getting to know all of the other competitors and their horses.

Chance Harvey

Trainer’s Name: Mariah Wilson Farm Affiliation: Platinum Performance Horses Age: 11 Parent’s Names: Brit Harvey and Dusti Harvey

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... donate money to my favorite charity and buy a western horse and start riding western again!

If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a BIG TIME SHOW HORSE!

Three words that describe me are ... trustworthy, creative, and dedicated.

Three words that describe me are ... funny, determined, and helpful.

Kayla Hipp If my horse were a famous celebrity … she would be Beyoncé because Allexxus is so sassy!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Keep Your Head Up,” by Andy Grammer.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I like watching the classes and riding my horse! We always have fun at our barn and we support each other. We rent golf carts and visit other barns and see all of the exhibits. I look forward to this week all year!

Kayla Hipp

Trainer’s Name: Vicki Humphrey Farm Affiliation: Vicki Humphrey Training Center Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Mark and Londa Hipp If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy more horses!

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Kacia Kapelke

Three words that describe me are ... independent, funny, and sweet.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Happy,” by Pharrell Williams.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Audrey Hepburn because she is beautiful and classic, with a bit of sass.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love the water balloon fights, I like to see all my friends from other barns, I love looking at all the Breyers in the vendor area, and I like riding horses in different arenas!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Southern Girl,” by Tim McGraw.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to spend time with some of my best friends … and the pizza!

Jaeda Isley

Trainer’s Name: Ryan Strand and Elise Worman Farm Affiliation: Liberty Meadows Training Center Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Jeff and Erika Isley If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... move my horses and I into a mansion.

Three words that describe me are ... curious, dependable, and capable.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Willy Wonka because he likes candy.

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Kacia Kapelke

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald and Kelli Congero Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose and Shamrock Horsemanship Age: 11 Parent’s Names: Bo and Stacy Kapelke If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... start an animal rescue and use my celebrity status to find all of them new homes.

Three words that describe me are ... caring, gentle, and happy.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Fabio because he is big and muscular, his mane is really long and he always flips it back and forth.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Brave,” by Sara Bareilles.

Sofia Kauderer I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is the funnest show of the year! This will be my first time riding my horse Tamar Desert Wind in Tingley Coliseum and competing in 13 & under at Youth Nationals.

Sofia Kauderer

Trainer’s Name: Christy Higman-Clements Farm Affiliation: Christy HigmanClements Training Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Mallory and Tica Kauderer If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... donate money to homeless and animal shelters. I really would like to get more involved in helping out my community!

Three words that describe me are ... athletic, caring, and supportive.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Kevin Hart because my horse is really funny, and has a really strong personality.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Happy,” by Pharrell! This song is kind of getting on my nerves, after it has been played at least 153 times on the radio, but it really describes my personality!

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Alexis Kiesner I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this is my first Youth Nationals with my new horse, Glory Stealer. I am excited to show and try my best! I am also excited to be reunited with all my friends, and just have a great time!

Alexis Kiesner

Trainer’s Name: Joel and Ashton Kiesner Farm Affiliation: Kiesner Training Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Joel and Ashton Kiesner If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... probably throw a party and invite a lot of famous celebrities, or sign up for Dancing With The Stars.

Three words that describe me are ... creative, ambitious, and a little shy.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … my horse, Beyberry Fyre, would be Phillip Phillips because they’re both examples of an all-American success story. Appletini would be a combination of SpongeBob and the Energizer Bunny; he is always ready to go and seems to never run out of energy. Majestic High would be a version of Will Ferrell because he has a bigger-than-life personality and is willing to do anything.

Maya Kikuchi If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Keep Your Head Up,” by Andy Grammer.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this year at Youth Nationals will be my last year in 13 & under. I plan to make the most of it before going into 14-18!

I am also very excited to show my Arabian English horse, Appletini, who I didn’t get the chance to show last year because of an injury. Getting the chance to show and be with my friends is a huge thrill and I ALWAYS look forward to it!

Maya Kikuchi

Trainer’s Name: Katherine Rich-Elzig Farm Affiliation: KRE Show Horses @ Green Acres Ranch Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Keiji and Yukiko Kikuchi If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a mansion on my own private island and have a huge party inviting every celebrity and my friends.

Three words that describe me are ... kind, adventurous, and creative.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … and was a mare, she would be Jennifer

Rebecca Marr Lawrence because she’s famous, but acts like she’s still having fun with her life while working on her career; and in all her movies she plays an adventurous person who can take down anyone with her skills.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Try,” by Pink because it says to keep trying and not fall or give up on what you want to accomplish.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it’s my second year going to youth and I’m going to be showing in show hack and native costume; also, watching the park and English classes.

Rebecca Marr

Trainer’s Name: Josh Quintus Farm Affiliation: Colonial Woods Training Center Age: 13 Parent’s Names: James and Kim Marr If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... donate money and my time to others that are less fortunate.

Three words that describe me are ... caring, fun, and outgoing.

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Jordan Mutschelknaus

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Brad Pitt because he is a middle age man that is strong, yet charming and classy.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Barefoot Blue,” by Jean Night.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Dylan O’Brien, because he is a new actor, kind of like how Nico is a new show horse. They both are also funny and adorable!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is my first year attending and I look forward to having fun and competing!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I’m Only Human,” by Cristina Perry, or “Be Okay,” by Oh Honey.

Mikayla Michels

Trainer’s Name: Larry and Jody Hoffman Farm Affiliation: Hesten Park Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Karen and Tracy Michels If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go on a vacation, because we never get enough of those anymore.

Three words that describe me are ... outgoing, strong-willed, and gorgeous (stated by my father)!

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I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to show my new horse, and I’m going for a God experience.

Jordan Mutschelknaus

Trainer’s Name: Kellie Wendling and Dalton Budd Farm Affiliation: Select Show Horses Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Melissa and Darrell Mutschelknaus If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy 100 horses and put them in training with Dalton Budd.

Jenna Neufeld Three words that describe me are ... determined, selfless, and friendly.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Justin Bieber because he always wants to be the center of attention, yet still holds a sweet but daring personality.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I Love It,” by Icona Pop because I love this sport and I can’t imagine my life without it.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this is going to be my first time at Youth Nationals and I’m excited to have this amazing opportunity to compete.

Jenna Neufeld

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald and Crystal McNutt Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch and Crystal McNutt Performance Horses Age: 13 Parent’s Name: Julia Neufeld

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Paige Neufeld If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go to big parties that only celebrities are invited to!

Three words that describe me are ... ambitious, intelligent, and outgoing.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Kobe Bryant because they are both tall and very talented.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Not Afraid,” by Eminem.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to show four great horses in a variety of classes and hang out with friends!

Paige Neufeld

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald, Jessica Bein and Crystal McNutt Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch, Bein Performance Horses and Crystal McNutt Performance Horses Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Julia Neufeld If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy my dream horse.

Allie Ollila

Vanessa Pedregon

Three words that describe me are ... dedicated, hard-working, and passionate.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Batman because he’s awesome!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Johnny Depp because Flash Gorden is very versatile (hunter and western), and can act, paint, and write.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Defying Gravity.”

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Look At Me Now,” by Charlie Puth.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this will be my first time showing at Youth Nationals and I am showing five horses!

Allie Ollila

Trainer’s Name: Alexis Scott Farm Affiliation: AKS Farms Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Chris and Melissa Ollila If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a huge yacht and take all my friends on a cruise around the world!

Three words that describe me are ... determined, nerdy, and talkative.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it will be my first nationals with Danny and his first time at nationals. I also get to see all of my friends that I don’t get to see very often.

Vanessa Pedregon

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Randi and Robin Preiser If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go shopping.

Three words that describe me are ... weird, annoying, and dumb.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Channing Tatum because he’s gorgeous.

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Isabella Perricone If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I Won’t Give Up,” by Jason Mraz.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I want to see my friends and show my horse.

Isabella Perricone

Trainer’s Name: Christy Higman-Clements Farm Affiliation: Christy HigmanClements Training Age: 11 Parent’s Names: Malou and Steven Perricone If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... raise awareness for the ASPCA and raise money for all starving and neglected animals, especially horses. I would also go to the barn and tell my horses—they would be part of the fame.

Three words that describe me are ... committed, compassionate, and loyal.

If my horse were a famous celebrity …

Blondie would be Madonna because she will do it all. Shaq would be Shaquille O’Neal because he’s big and kind and would crawl in your lap if he could.

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Sarah Porter If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Girl On Fire,” by Alicia Keys, because I have goals set that I want to achieve.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I can’t wait to see all my friends from all over the country and show my horses.

Sarah Porter

Trainer’s Name: Josh Quintus Farm Affiliation: Colonial Wood Training Center Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Kay and Howard Porter If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... make a huge donation to The Arabian Horsemen’s Distress Fund. I really love how they care for and support those who need help. I would then go to Show Season and pick out several new outfits.

Three words that describe me are ... a strong Christian, encouraging, and outgoing.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Russell Crowe, because he

Chase Pullifrone is named Russell Crowe and he loves being in front of the camera. He also loves getting a lot of attention.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Good,” by Dave Barnes. The lyrics say … “Every day’s a gift that I’ve been given.

Every breath feels like a second chance.

And everything I’ve done heaven has seen. And God just keeps on forgiving me, and I do my best to change what I can.”

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to see all of my friends that I haven’t seen in a long time, and I am looking forward to the huge water balloon fights that we have there. I am also very excited to be taking my two new horses, Russell Crowe and Junie Moon, to show for the first time at Youth Nationals.

Chase Pullifrone

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Shannon Pullifrone and Keith Pullifrone

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Taylor Richman If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy myself an English horse.

Three words that describe me are ... funny, strong, and kind.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Jennifer Lawrence because Ocala is very nice and beautiful.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Born This Way,” by Lady Gaga.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to show my new western horse and show costume and show hack for the first time at youth.

Taylor Richman

Trainer’s Name: Ryan Strand and Elise Worman Farm Affiliation: Liberty Meadows Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Dean And Lisa Richman If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go shopping, then donate money to a local animal shelter.

Noah Rooker Three words that describe me are ... fun, energetic, and outgoing.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Johnny Depp because Captain Jack Sparrow is just as free spirited as my horse!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I’m Sexy and I know It,” by LMFAO. I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... this will be the first time I am going to youth!

Noah Rooker

Trainer’s Name: Shawn and Carmelle Rooker, Dalton Budd and Kellie Wendling Farm Affiliation: Rooker Training Stable and Select Show Horses Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Shawn and Carmelle Rooker If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a golf course and build a basketball court into the clubhouse.

Sevana Skinner Three words that describe me are ... athletic, funny, and annoying.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be … Kevin Durant because he is such an athlete!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “The Man,” by Aloe Blacc.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 ... for redemption from last year!

Sevana Skinner

Trainer’s Name: Alexis Scott Farm Affiliation: AKS Farms Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Jeff and Kim Skinner If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... I would buy a private jet and invite all my friends to travel to Bora Bora with me.

Three words that describe me are ... crazy, shy (when I’m not at home), and adventurous.

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Alexa Tiziani If my horse were a famous celebrity … Harley would be Oscar the Grouch because he’s always grouchy—he regularly has his ears pinned back, and he’s never really in a good mood. My other horse Aries would be Sophia Grace from the Ellen DeGeneres Show because he is small, but very mighty and sassy!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “You Make My Dreams Come True,” by Daryl Hall & John Oats.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it’s the first time for me, I like hanging out with all my friends that I don’t get to see much because they don’t live close, and all my barn friends say it’s a bunch of fun!

Alexa Tiziani

Trainer’s Name: Sarah Paripovich and John & Leah Golladay Farm Affiliation: Sarah Paripovich Training and Cedar Ridge Arabians Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Mario and Kressi Tiziani If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a Half-Arabian equitation horse!

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McKella Tiziani Three words that describe me are ... fun, hard-working, and driven.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Double OH Sevenn would be James Bond because first of all, he is named after James Bond, and secondly, he has a strong spirit when he is on duty.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Woo Hoo,” by The 5.6.7.8’s. I listen to it every time I go into the arena. It’s a lucky song and has brought lots ribbons to our barn!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to bring my two favorites with me for my 2nd year at Youth! This year is the best year I’ve ever had and am super excited in continuing to improve and show at Youth Nationals.

McKella Tiziani

Trainer’s Name: Sarah Paripovich and Leah Beth Golladay Farm Affiliation: Sarah Paripovich Training and Cedar Ridge Arabians Age: 11 Parent’s Names: Mario and Kressi Tiziani

Lana Trautman If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... host a meet-up so I could interact with all of my fans!

Three words that describe me are ... crazy, Crazy, and CRAZY! If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... George Strait because he’s old and pretty well known.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Bom Bom,” by Sam and the Womp.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love spending time with my family and friends and, of course, showing!

Lana Trautman

Trainer’s Name: John and Leah Golladay Farm Affiliation: Cedar Ridge Arabians Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Bruce and Karna Trautman If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... crawl under my bed and try to find some privacy.

Three words that describe me are ... driven, toothpick, and ‘Squidward’.

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Samuel Weber

Saylor Weidauer

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Mr. Ed because he can be obnoxious and he does whatever he wants, but he is a good horse with a big heart.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Soft Kitty,” from The Big Bang Theory.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it is a super fun and exciting experience that I can enjoy with my horse.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... It’s my first year showing equitation.

Samuel Weber

Trainer’s Name: Katherine Rich-Elzig Farm Affiliation: KRE Show Horses @ Green Acres Ranch Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Eric and Terhi Weber If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... meet my fans.

Three words that describe me are ... persistent, confident, and athletic.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... awesome, because I’m his owner.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Hit The Road Jack,” because that’s my horse’s name.

Saylor Weidauer

Trainer’s Name: Katherine Rich-Elzig Farm Affiliation: KRE Show Horses @ Green Acres Ranch Age: 13 Parent’s Names: James and Shannon Weidauer If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... help promote rescue (no kill) animal programs so that all animals have a chance to feel loved and have a “forever” home. I would also help out people who are in need and hope to create things that people and animals need to improve their lives.

I would also be grateful to attend a great veterinarian school! All of which I hope to do, whether I become a famous celebrity overnight or not!

Three words that describe me are ... loyal, energetic, and funny.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … my horse CSP Worthy Wager would be Katy Perry because she is unique, beautiful and a lot of fun!

Camille Welch If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “This Moment,” by Katy Perry, because every moment counts.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... what’s not to love about Youth Nationals—good friends, horses, meeting new people and riding in classes that you’ve prepared for all year. It’s what I look forward to all year, and train very hard with Katherine Rich to achieve!

Camille Welch

Trainer’s Name: Katherine Rich-Elzig Farm Affiliation: KRE Show Horses @ Green Acres Ranch Age: 13 Parent’s Names: Jim and Shannon Welch If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... take my closest friends on a private jet flying around the world and stop at all of the major international horse sites. We would spend some time with California Chrome!

Three words that describe me are ... fun, creative, and hard-working.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “I Won’t Give Up,” by Jason Mraz.

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Cate Wondrasek I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... it will be my first time competing here and I get to spend time with the horses and my friends.

Cate Wondrasek

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald, Josh Shino and Kara Mitchell Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Jennifer and Matt Wondrasek If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... go shopping on Rodeo drive!

Three words that describe me are ... clumsy, intelligent, and determined.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Kim Kardashian because she thinks she is better than everyone!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Don’t Stop Believin’,”by Journey

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Ryan Young because it reminds me to never give up, even when times are rough.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to spend time with all of my friends and have barn dinners at Buca di Beppo!

Ryan Young

Trainer’s Name: Mariah Wilson Farm Affiliation: Platinum Performance Horses Age: 12 Parent’s Names: Hallie and Bill Young If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... use my money to buy horses and a barn and teach kids how to ride.

Three words that describe me are ... kind, fun, and loving.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Josh Hutcherson because he is nice, young, and cool.

Richard Archuleta If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Classic,” by MKTO, because I am not like most people (don’t wear make-up and stuff like that).

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... of a lot of reasons!

Youth Nationals is my favorite week of the summer, and I am most excited for meeting new people from different states, watching other people’s classes, shopping, hanging out with my friends, and spending the whole week with horses.

__________________________ __________________________ 10 & UNDER __________________________ __________________________ Richard Archuleta

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch Age: 7 Parent’s Names: Donnie and Jessica Archuleta If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... ride a horse.

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McKenna Bein

Elle Browne

Jocelyn Davis

Three words that describe me are ... cute, kind, and athletic.

Three words that describe me are ... fun, busy, and a hard worker.

Three words that describe me are ... crazy, funny, and sometimes scary.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... LeBron James because we are working to win a Championship!

If my horse were a famous celebrity ...

Slik would be Maximus from Tangled because he’s a noble steed.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Channing Tatum because he thinks he is sexy.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Happy,” by Pharrell.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Days Of Gold,” by Jake Owen.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Fancy.”

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to see so many great horses, and I get to see my uncle, Gabriel DeSoto, and Aunt Jessica.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to see all of my friends from around the country, and this year I get to show reining, showmanship and trail!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am excited about riding and seeing my friends.

McKenna Bein

Trainer’s Name: Jessica Bein, Lauren Thomas and Carolyn McDonald Farm Affiliation: Bein Performance Horses Age: 7 Parent’s Names: David and Jessica Bein If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... drive to California and get Siggy back because my mom sold him.

Elle Browne

Trainer’s Name: Alexis Scott Farm Affiliation: AKS Farms Age: 10 Parent’s Names: Bill and Jennifer Browne If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a lot of horses.

Jocelyn Davis

Trainer’s Name: Mariah Wilson Farm Affiliation: Platinum Performance Horses Age: 9 Parent’s Names: Graham and Lauri Davis If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... donate money to cancer research.

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Three words that describe me are ... hard-working, loving and adventurous.

Three words that describe me are ... loyal, funny, and independent.

Three words that describe me are ... funny, energetic, and a little bit crazy.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... a happy day, because Tribute loves to be the center of attention!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Rapunzel because my mare, JS Serinah, has a SUPER long mane, and she already thinks she is a princess.

If my horse were a famous celebrity …

Kingslee would be Elvis because he’s “The King”. Cash would be Channing Tatum because he’s huge, handsome and super talented.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” by Randy Newman because I try to be a friend to everyone around me.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love competing with Tribute and being with my barn friends all week!

Quinn Eisenfeld

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald, Josh Shino, Kara Mitchell and Jessica Bein Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch and Bein Performance Horses Age: 10 Parent’s Names: Amanda and Steve Eisenfeld If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... demand that the ASPCA commercial with Sarah McLachlan singing, be taken off the air forever—it makes me cry every time I see it! I would also buy a huge ranch and rescue all of the horses and dogs that need a home.

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If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “All American Girl,” by Carrie Underwood because I love football, my family, and the USA. I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to hang out with friends from all over the country that I don’t get to see very often. We are fierce competitors in the show ring, but afterwards, we ride bikes, laugh, and eat lots of ice cream!

Camryn Martens

Trainer’s Name: Alexis Scott Farm Affiliation: AKS Farms Age: 9 Parent’s Names: Kevin & Janette Martens If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy a mansion with a fancy barn, more horses, and a house on Anna Maria Island.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Best Day of My Life, by American Authors.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I want to see the red rose blanket put on my horse!

Kate Mathews

Trainer’s Name: Kristen Valencia Farm Affiliation: Valencia Farms Age: 10 Parent’s Names: Jessica Eaves Mathews, Jim Mathews If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... star in a horseback riding movie!

Three words that describe me are ... positive, kind, and funny!

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Chris Hemsworth because my gelding, Camelots Mednyt Steed, is

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Valentina Perricone tall and big, strong and powerful, and yet a kind, gentle giant.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Brave,” by Katy Perry.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I can’t wait to ride my horses in their classes and hang out with my barn friends!

Valentina Perricone

Trainer’s Name: Christy Higman-Clements Farm Affiliation: Christy HigmanClements Training Age: 9 Parent’s Names: Malou and Steven Perricone If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... continue to raise money for the ASPCA and bring the world’s attention to this problem.

Three words that describe me are ... fun, focused, and caring.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Tim McGraw because Flash is calm, cool, and collected at all times.

Olivia Pullifrone If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Feel So Close to You,” by Calvin Harris, because it’s the bond I feel with my horses. There’s no stopping us!

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... of showing my horses and seeing my friends.

Olivia Pullifrone

Trainer’s Name: Carolyn McDonald Farm Affiliation: Cactus Rose Ranch Age: 8 Parent’s Names: Shannon Pullifrone and Keith Pullifrone If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... make a movie.

Three words that describe me are ... nice, funny, and awesome.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Matthew McConaughey because Bravo is versatile and cool.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Love Story,” by Taylor Swift.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am excited to show my horses, do my best, and have fun!

Quintin Roberts

Quintin Roberts

Trainer’s Name: Lyric Phillps, Shawn and Carmelle Rooker Farm Affiliation: Rushlow’s Arabians and Rooker Training Stable Age: 10 Parent’s Names: Marggie and Chad Roberts If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... tell everyone about Arabian horses and show them how fun it is to show.

Three words that describe me are ... hard-working, shy, and strong.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Relience would be Tom Cruise because he is a little small for a HalfArabian, but very handsome and just seems like a nice guy. Jordan would be Justin Bieber because he is young and sometimes doesn’t know the right things to do, but is very talented.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Till I Collapse,” by Eminem, because it is about trying really hard.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I love to see what the future holds for me. I would really like to show everyone how much I love to ride and how hard I work at this.

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Emma Williams

Trainer’s Name: Joel and Ashton Kiesner Farm Affiliation: Kiesner Training and Kehilan Arabians Age: 10 Parent’s Names: Chris and Amy Williams If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... buy my own private island.

Three words that describe me are ... determined, competitive, and kind.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... Olaf, from Frozen because he is so sweet and compassionate, and he loves his girls Ana and Elsa like Teddi loves me!

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Roar,” by Katy Perry.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I get to spend a lot of time with my horse and it is so fun! I like to see my friends and meet new friends too!

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Sophie Yih

Trainer’s Name: Tamara Collins Farm Affiliation: Earthquake Arabians Age: 10 Parent’s Names: Cathy and Roy Yih If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... save the endangered Mustangs. I would purchase the land that these animals live on so I don’t have to move them. I would feed them hay and make sure they had enough water. It’s important to save the Mustangs because I think they are beautiful, strong and are very independent. I would be sad if the Mustangs became extinct, because they belong in this world like any other horse does.

Three words that describe me are ... shy, nice, and adventurous.

If my horse were a famous celebrity … Turbo would be like Mister Ed. He moves his lips like he were talking.

Turbo also smiles and photo-bombs our pictures when we are taking selfies.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ... “Let it Go,” by Idena Menzel.

Romy Young I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I am new to showing and I want to experience a big horse show, meet new friends and hang out with my own barn friends.

Romy Young

Trainer’s Name: Mariah Wilson Farm Affiliation: Platinum Performance Horses Age: 6 Parent’s Names: Hallie and Bill Young If I became a famous celebrity overnight, the first thing I would do is ... is buy a horse.

Three words that describe me are ... nice, funny, and fearless.

If my horse were a famous celebrity, it would be ... El Macho from Despicable Me 2, because he is cool and in charge.

If my life had a theme song, it would be ...

“Best Day of My Life,” by American Authors.

I am looking forward to Youth Nationals 2014 because ... I want to ride my horse, have water fights in the golf carts, and see all the kids. n

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Cactus Rose Ranch ................................ 111-117 Cedar Ridge Arabians ............................ 136-147 ChriShan Park............................................ 43-45 Christy Higman-Clements Training .......... 89-93 Colonial Wood Training Center, Inc.......... 17-22 Crescent Creek Farms ................................ 18-21 Curley, Sheila ...................................................16 Cylent Arabians LLC ......................................66

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DC Arabians ..................................................135 DeRegnaucourt Ltd..........................................52

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Earthquake Arabians .................................. 46-49

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Feldman, Hannah .............................................42 Flood Show Horses ....................... 200-202, IBC

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Harris Show Horses ..............................32-37, 77 Hesten Park ........................................... 100-103 Highland Pride Arabians ...................................7 Huss Performance Horses ................................77

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Lowe Show Horse Centre ......................... IFC-6

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Pawsitive Pawsibilities ....................................109 Platinum Performance Horses .......................110

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Ralston Training Center ......................... 150, 153

Remington Monroe Equine LLC .............. 32-37 Rooker Training Stable .............................. 78-79 Ross Tarkington Stables .................................152

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Silver Aspen Ranch ..........................................67 Stachowski Farm, Inc. ...........................29, 32-37

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Guest Editorial When we all leave this world, the only thing we can take with us is our integrity. I plan on taking mine. So, let’s just cut to the chase: We need to discuss what is going on with Arabian horse photography, because we have a problem. The introduction of digital photography, while it has offered many benefits, has come with big risks. One is the easy manipulation of images—specifically the alteration of a horse’s conformation.

Why is this important? Because where commerce is concerned (selling horses or breedings, for instance), photo manipulation is fraud. We are not selling a concept or something that is mass produced. We are selling an individual—an individual with physical characteristics unique to itself, and the hope of reproducing the same.

In the spirit of full disclosure, very early in my career, I manipulated images for a client. I had bills to pay and I did what I had to do to sell a photo. I’m not proud of it, and I realized early on that it was wrong, but I wasn’t the only one involved with this deception. Photo manipulation has been around for a long time in the equine industry and as far as I’m concerned, it needs to stop now. Unless we can establish a level of ethics and honesty about what we allow in our photography, I think we have a problem that may not be resolved until a lawsuit is filed for misrepresentation.

As it is with everything in life, photo manipulation is not a simple issue. Digital photography and Photoshop® provide some very real benefits. Distractions in the photo that take away from the intended subject, such as a manure pile in the foreground or a telephone pole in the background, can be removed. Exposure and color saturation can be corrected. So, is some photo doctoring okay? Of course. Let’s take advantage of what technology offers us.

But alter the conformation? Well, just because we can, certainly doesn’t mean we should. Enlarging an eye, deepening the dish in the face, leveling out the topline, trimming the throatlatch, etc.? In other words, producing an image that is not a true representation of the subject? This should absolutely be off limits.

I’m very tired of being asked, after someone sees one of my photos, “Is that horse really that pretty?” I know about every legitimate way there is to make a horse look better than it ever has. That is what professional equine photographers are paid to do—through the use of lighting, angles, props, etc. That is not what is happening in the instances I’m talking about, and I’m not alone in this view. I’ve discussed it with several other photographers, and they see the same thing.

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We Should Be Able To Trust What We See

by STUART VESTY

So, why is this an important issue? As I said, if a horse or breedings to a horse are being advertised for sale, the use of images with altered conformation is a misrepresentation

If we as an industry can have

of the product on the market. Let’s take the case of a breeding stallion. Mare owners

the discussion that I would

look for certain characteristics in a stallion they may consider using on their mare, and a

like to see about the role of

decision based on an altered photograph of that stallion may lead to a purchase based

manipulation in today’s horse

on something which does not exist. Likewise with an individual for sale.

Photo manipulation goes on all the time in mainstream industries, most notably in the fashion magazines. Scott Trees had the best explanation I’ve heard of, why that argument doesn’t stand up in our case. “We’re not trying to breed to those models,” he says.

“Fashion magazines are selling a product, a concept, a lifestyle. That’s where the fine line is in terms of legality. Are you selling this horse as a show horse or a breeding animal,

photography, there are a few points that would be helpful to know up front. When I say it is difficult to police this issue, that’s stating it mildly.

or are you saying ‘these animals are fun and beautiful’? If you’re selling the breed as a

Many people have suggested

lifestyle, that’s one thing, but if you’re saying, ‘come breed to this horse,’ that’s another.

that photographers stamp

As far as I’m concerned, it is false advertising.”

their photos “conformation unaltered” below their

He further points out that when we buy something online or from a catalog, if the

signature to indicate that it is a

product arrives and it is not what we thought it was, we send it back. That doesn’t work

truthful image My response is,

here, especially with semen.

first, that my signature should

One of the hardest parts of this whole issue is that there are some areas which are definitely grey, and which will be governed only by the ethics of the photographer and the owner and/or trainer of the horse involved. As I mentioned, is it okay to clean up a background or remove something that distracts from the intended subject? Yes—as long as the final image is a true representation of the individual.

be enough; any photo that has my name on it signifies that when it left my hands, it was a true image of that horse. But that’s the trouble: when it left my hands. After

A colleague of mine told me a story of exactly what is meant when we talk about the

it leaves my hands, I have no

danger of photo manipulation. An owner once pointed out a photograph of a horse and

control. Anyone who handles

told him, “That’s the best shot ever taken of him.” My colleague replied, “Well, it’s not

that image can manipulate

the best photo of your horse; it’s been altered. It’s not really your horse, then, is it?”

it—and ad designers often do, to accommodate their

So, what do we do about photo manipulation in today’s Arabian horse industry? I

design. To my knowledge, no

think we should discuss it—debate it and decide what we consider acceptable and

one has changed a horse’s

what should not be allowed. What does the Arabian horse community think is fair and acceptable, and why? There are guidelines and rules put in place to ensure a level playing field during competition for our horses, and those found in violation are punished. Why not implement something similar in the visual advertising aspect of our industry?

We should recognize that any sort of policing will be very hard, but we must demand

conformation in any of my photographs through their design efforts, and more often than not, they have done a beautiful job with it.

higher ethics than we’ve been seeing lately. Our goal needs to be making it possible to

The bottom line is, this is an

trust the photographs we see. Why are most of us involved with this particular breed of

issue of integrity. That means

horse? It’s not for the smell or the taste, right? It’s visual. It’s because they are beautiful!

that we as an industry need to

Beautiful in a way no other breed of horse can be. So, why isn’t that enough? Why

set aside personal ambition,

shouldn’t the breeder of an exotic individual be proud of their accomplishment, rather

pride, greed or just plain need,

than have to defend a legitimate and beautiful photograph of their horse because “it

and commit to the truth. Peer

must have been photoshopped?”

pressure and public opinion is

I heard a friend, describing a person we both know, say, “He will lie when the truth will do.” So, my question is: Why is it necessary to enhance a photograph of these horses?

the best deterrent I know of, short of a lawsuit.

Isn’t their true beauty enough? I say the truth will do. The truth will do.

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the 2014

Arabian Gala Event The Arabian Gala Event is an Annual Class “A” Arabian show run by The Arabian Valley Horse Club (AVHC). This year’s Arabian Gala Event was held at the Queensland State Equestrian Centre in Australia on the 10th and 11th of May. Lenita Perroy of Brazil judged Halter, Performance was Callie James from New South Wales, and the Youth/HSAA judge was Sharan Poskus from Victoria.

The committee’s decision not to live stream the event this year to help get spectators back to the shows certainly worked, and the 2014 Arabian Gala Event made for a great atmosphere, living up to its reputation of being one of the best shows on the Australian show circuit.

Sponsor banners decorated the entire way around the indoor arena allowing for great exposure, and with spectators limited to one area of the stands, the cheering became infectious. If one person cheered for a horse, they all did, and the horses loved every minute of it!

It was an honor to have well-respected Lenita Perroy judge the halter classes, and the quality of the competitors certainly didn’t let her down.

PETstock Golden Garland winners.

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“Kelaray Stud International” Champion Junior Arabian Gelding went to Amir Sir Real Khalid (by SF Sir Real), owned by Khalid Arabians, with Reserve going to Heirloom LEA (by RHR Heir of Marwan), owned by Kithbrook Stud.

“Natham Park Arabians” Champion Junior Arabian Colt went to Renaissance (by Chelleason Crown Jewel) for owner Bacchante Arabians, and Reserve to Marwan’s Echo (by Echos of Marwan) for owner Shatana Arabians.

Champion Arabian Senior Stallion Charming VC, with Wayne Backhouse and Lenita Perroy.

“Al Safwah Arabians” Champion Junior Arabian Filly went to Chelleason Crown Marwana (by Chelleason Crown Jewel), owned by Chelleason Arabians, with the Reserve going to Marwan’s Magnifique MPA (by Echos of Marwan) for owner Myriad Park Arabians.

“Sue Crockett Photography” Champion Intermediate Arabian Gelding went to Lea-Ma Park Wishez (by Joda Al Ghazah), owned by LeaMa Park Arabians, with the Reserve going to Joya De La Corona (by Chelleason Crown Jewel) for owner Charaway Arabians.

“Laudan Arabians” Champion Intermediate Arabian Colt went to Cinque El Jamaal (by FT Wuotan), owned by JH Show Training, and the Reserve to The Saint BT (by Bremervale Saintly), owned by Lea-Ma Park Arabians.

Champion Arabian Senior Mare The Palms Maa’Nisa, with sponsors Jess Wilson and Jason Hodgin, owners The Palms Arabians, and Lenita Perroy.

“IRT” Champion Intermediate Arabian Filly went to Marwans Fortune KP (by RHR Heir of Marwan) for owner Shatana Arabians, with the Reserve going to Charismatic Heiress KP (by RHR Heir of Marwan) for owner Riversleigh Arabians.

“Riversleigh Arabians” Champion Senior Arabian Gelding went to Chelleason El Lorenzo (by Gai El Jullyen), owned by Laudan Arabians, with the Reserve going to Bacchante Azzaro (by Romarno), owned by Bacchante Arabians.

Champion Arabian Junior Colt Renaissance with Heath Rowbottom.

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“Caramea Stud” Champion Senior Arabian Stallion went to Charming VC (by Magnum Psyche) for owner Natham Park Arabians.

“JH Show Training” Champion Senior Arabian Mare went to The Palms Maa’Nisa (by Maa’zooz), owned by The Palms Arabians, and Reserve to Ramadan Markabella (by Makers Mark) for owner Chauvel Arabians.

Champion Arabian Junior Filly Chelleason Crown Marwana, with owner Michelle Thomas, sponsor Tara Cheslett, and Lenita Perroy.

Saturday night saw all three judges come together to judge the PETstock Golden Garland. This class has fast become one of the “must win” saddle classes in Australia. Competitors do a freestyle workout to music (of their choice) and must include 6 compulsory moves. All three judges individually score the compulsory moves and give extra points for presentation, difficulty and originality, manners and paces, and quality and conformation. The Golden Garland (complete with flashing lights) went to Groucho Marx (by Lubeck).

Sunday showcased the performance horses. Judge Callie James was an absolute pleasure to have, and ended up awarding the “Shiranna Garlands” Saddle Horse of the Show to Richvale Marlow (by Medallion) for owner and exhibitor Paul Austin Equitation.

Champion Intermediate Arabian Gelding Lea-Ma Park Wishez, owner Mike Matthews and sponsor Sue Crockett.

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Year Of The Horse:

Best ArABiAn Horse Contest Winners In another AHT Year of the Horse Contest, we asked our readers, “Why do you have the best Arabian horse in the world?” And in return, we received some incredible photos and essays. The upcoming pages feature the winners of this inspiring contest—the people lucky enough to own some of the best Arabian horses in the world.

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Essay Contest

Lexie snoW If you’ve ever owned or known an Arabian horse, yours will be the “best Arabian in the world” because they are they are just that type of horse. They envelop you with their love and never cease to stop caring for you.

My Arabian, Abi Tanni Bask (Bambi), has a special place in my heart and is one of the best Arabians in the world. After leasing many horses, including Quarter Horses, Mustangs, and Thoroughbreds, I was introduced to the Arabian breed. My heart was stolen the day I saw her standing in a backyard stall, sassy as ever, with her big black eyes poking out among mounds of matted coat. Her tail had been lobbed off, her mane was tangled in long strands. She had an essence around her that was yearning for love. The same type of love that I was yearning for, too.

As my previous trainer and I loaded her up into the trailer, I had no idea that I was about to embark on one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Hard work, perseverance, and patience were among the many lessons I had to learn right off the bat. However, all Bambi really needed was love. As long as you gave her love and respect, she would give you back the same. Eventually, my parents gifted her to me for my high school graduation and she has been by my side ever since.

She brings tears to my eyes and a great warmth to my heart.

She never misses out on the important stuff and always seems to calm my soul in times of sorrow or trial. Not to mention, she

is the best kind of therapy. We always joke that it is, “Bambi’s way or the highway,” but deep down, I know she would do anything for me whenever or wherever I asked her to.

I don’t doubt that there are many other “best Arabians in the world” but I truly feel that my Ms. Bambi is the best!

KAren CLAyson Blizzard has the biggest heart of any horse I’ve met.

Whether we are in the show ring or up in the mountains, she will go all day and still be giving 110% at the very end. Last year she proved once again how big her heart was when she had her first foal, Flurry. The whole time she was pregnant, people would ask me what I was hoping for in a baby and I would say, “A pinto colt with long white legs, a good neck, and his mom’s heart.” Man, did she give deliver on these wishes!

She delivered two weeks early, in the middle of the night, with her blankets on.

I don’t think anyone was more surprised than Blizz to find Flurry wet and lying in the stall. Blizz took to being a mom just like she does everything else and put her whole heart into taking care of Flurry. This photo was taken when Flurry was a week old. Fast-forward a year, Blizzard is back putting her heart into her work and Flurry is everything I hoped for and more. Most importantly, it looks like he has inherited his mother’s heart.

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Lize LABusCHAgne Hurst Louna and I have practically grown up together.

She has taught me so many life lessons and everything I know about endurance riding. Not once has she ever let me down and I cherish every minute spent with her. Her mindset is so strong and focused that it makes all of my stress and worries float away. Most people underestimate her endurance abilities because of her tiny size, but her heart and will to win is enormous and in the end, that’s all that counts.

LAuren MALCoMson My horse EC Marquis (aka Marq) has been my best friend the past three years. I never thought I would love a horse as much as a love him. He makes me smile even when we have a bad ride, which is not often. I have been riding for 12 years and he is one of the best horses I have ever ridden.

I don’t think of him as just a horse, he is my best friend and he has taught me so much. Nothing can compare to the love and bond we have and he knows when I just need a hug (like in the photo). I can say that he is one-of-a-kind to me, because he truly knows how to make me smile. We might never win a national championship, but at the end of the day, it is not about showing, or what people think about how well you do at a show, it’s the love/bond you have with your horse. I would rather have the bond and love we have over anything in this world!

MAry Kennedie A little voice told me that I had to do it … buy this horse. It was not a good time to make such a decision, certainly not given the diagnosis I received at that time: Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS. This meant not having the ability to do things that I want, always being in pain, and being tired.

Plus, Amir Rifat was just a little guy at 3 years old.

We’ve been through a lot together. We often went back to basic horsemanship because of my poor physical condition, but we worked together, sometimes with a lot of help of other people. On May 7, 2014, Amir Rifat will be 7 years old; we have been together for 4 years now. But ultimately, Amir Rifat adapted so well to what is possible for me.

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Essay Contest And I became stronger. He taught me so much. Without him I probably would have sat in a wheelchair. Every day when I look at him, I am grateful, and I especially enjoy that special look from him when I have a bad day. As if he is saying, “Ok, we do things differently today.” He also stood at the base of

my other hobby, photography, a small company called You’re in the Picture. He always gives me the strength to go on.

And that’s why Amir Rifat is the best horse in the world!

eMiLy BArKer My parents and I took a chance and purchased a Half-Arabian several years ago. Allures Wikid Ways+ or “Willy”, was severely neglected. His feet were very overgrown and all cracked. His hair was falling out because he had a horrible case of rain rot. He was nervous and scared and didn’t want us to touch him. We slowly nursed him back to health and earned his trust. Willy soon had a gentle eye, as we would walk up to him with a bag full of carrots and goodies. He started to neigh for us when we pulled up to the barn, and in that moment, we finally had his full trust.

I started riding Willy and decided to compete in our first show in 2008 on the open hunter circuit. We jumped our way to a year-end championship and decided to raise the jumps and continue in the open hunter circuit for five more years. In 2013 I decided to show Willy on the Arabian circuit, because I was always curious about the Arabian environment. Since then, Willy and I have earned five regional championships and five top tens at Youth Nationals last year. I am now fully involved with the Arabian breed and now own two more Arabians. Willy is now twenty-one years old and is living his life as a happy retiree. He has shown me what love really is.

We took a chance and took him into our family with open

arms, and he returned the favor by showing us love and compassion. I would not be the rider I am today without this amazing Half-Arabian pinto by my side. He has shown me the beauty in Arabians and all that they have to offer, and I cannot thank him enough for being the best Arabian horse.

Heinz WiLnHAMMer When a horse conquers the heart of a man who hasn’t been a horseman at all, it has to be something special. When Nasir al Din—“the guardian of faith”—came into my life, he changed everything. He took away all my sorrows, gave me strength, and broadened my horizon in every direction.

He has no perfect beauty from the outside; his coat is still grey like the fields in November, waiting for snow to come, and his skin shows scars from playing and fighting with competitors in his herd while growing up to what he is now—a stallion, gentle like snow crystals blowing in the wind. Faithful like a tender embrace. And unique like the color of sunset on a clear day. Nasir showed me what real friendship means. That is why I am going to show him that the only beats we will ever share in our lives are the beats of our hearts.

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KAtie VogeL I have the best Arabian horse because he was the one who reached my Autistic son. My 9-year-old son, Robby, has Autism, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, Tourette’s and OCD. I had to pull him out of school and homeschool because of his disabilities. He is brilliant, but cannot process the world around him in a way that’s appropriate for interaction and communication.

I used to ride and I heard that riding can be a form of therapy for Autism, so I called the barn were I learned to ride, and took him there. He enjoyed riding and became quite good, but still wasn’t making an emotional connection. The owner sold us one of his Arabs (my family has always shown only Arabs and Miniature Horses that looked like Arabs) named ASA Epic Legend and we call him “Smokey”. When Robby started riding him, he blossomed. He grew in leaps and bounds, not only in his discipline, but also as a boy. Robby is not one who shows affection with hugs and touching, but I would catch him talking to Smokey, telling him about his latest Lego creation, and even stroking his neck. This is an unusual sight because even I, his mother, am not allowed to touch him without permission. So to see him willingly reach out like that is remarkable. Smokey just hangs his head close to Robby, and that’s all Robby needs (or wants) and he knows Smokey is showing him love and affection.

how to work with Smokey, Robby has gained confidence in himself and has learned valuable lessons in dealing with frustration and impatience. Since starting to ride Smokey, his tics have diminished to almost nothing (only when he’s anxious) and he is more calm and in control of himself.

Smokey doesn’t always listen, and can be a bit stubborn, but that’s the beauty of the partnership. Robby needs to learn to work though such things in appropriate ways. In learning

I ride Smokey as well, but he has something special with my son, and it shows. He just knows what Robby needs. Everyone who sees them sees them as one being, not just a boy on a horse.

AngeLA CreeL I grew up reading the books of Walter Farley, like, “The Black Stallion.”

He was a guest at my school once and I’m sure I talked his ear off, telling him how much I loved horses. He signed my copy of his book and I have a picture with him doing so. I’ll never forget telling him as a little girl, that one day I would have a magnificent black stallion. Well, my dream has finally come true. This had not only made my dreams as a little girl come true, but each and every time I have the honor of riding him, all my stress, fears, and issues fade away. He truly is a companion and friend. He takes care of me in the show ring in our western pleasure divisions. I’m so honored and proud to own such Arabian royalty. People can’t help but stop and stare when they see him, and each and every time I have to pinch myself, to make sure I’m not dreaming. Cenzio is an Enzo son and I’m so thankful every day that we found each other … he is a gift of a lifetime.

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LisA r. MoffAtt I was only 13 when I met Keno. I was from a horseless family in Iowa and lived, breathed, slept, and dreamt Arabian horses since I could recall. I read over and over the Walter Farley series, and Mary O’Hara, and countless others. My parents had no idea what to do with me! I met Mary Connolly in the spring of 1983—a self-made Arabian horse trainer from Delhi, Iowa. She was leasing stalls about 7 miles from where my parents lived. I rode my bicycle to the Iowana Stables in Manchester, Iowa, every day before and after school in any kind of weather for months. I cleaned stalls and helped with barn chores, stall cleaning, lungeing—everything that I could—in trade for the occasional ride on an Arabian.

That summer, a man hired Mary to halter break some yearlings so they could be sold at the Waverly Horse Sale that fall at the end of October. I fell in love with a beautiful coal black (grey) untamed boy named Keno.

The day came for the sale and I was heartbroken. In no way could I go the miles to Waverly. I knew I would never ever see Keno again.

Late that Saturday night of the horse sale, a call rang in at my house. It was Mary telling me to come to the barn as fast as I could. My mom was confused and annoyed that “these horse people” were calling so late. I begged and begged and threatened to ride my bicycle—by then, it was almost 2 a.m. My mom finally drove me to the stable and Mary was eagerly waiting, and led me to a stall in the back. She handed me a receipt for $147.58 and said that she bought Keno for me at the sale and he was mine for working so hard for her all of these months. I cried in his mane.

Then the real challenges started in the training of my wild gelding Keno. Mary helped me get him started for a month, then I had no funds to keep him there and brought him home to my homemade pastures and fences, and the tiny barn my dad built for me. Many a trial and tribulation we had, but Keno and I prevailed. Keno ended up being a champion of all sorts and was literally the star of Delaware County, Iowa. We won everything from showmanship, halter, and western pleasure, to egg and spoon, the ribbon race, and even tandem bareback! I put more miles on this horse than most kids put on their first car!

There was not anything we couldn’t do! My daughter, Marissa, grew up to do the same with him!

Keno has been with me all of my life, across many states, and has helped me raise an incredible and beautiful daughter. He taught her how to ride, won her many a blue ribbon, and loved her as much as he loved me!

I have not been without Keno since I was 13 years old.

I made him and he made me. Keno convinced me that I could conquer anything! He taught me confidence, truth, and love!

Just this past week, I had to say goodbye to him. It was perhaps the hardest thing I have ever had to face! Rest in peace (1982-2014), my Keno. After teaching me so many things about life, it is going to be so hard to go outside and not hear that low, grunting whinny. Keno has been the fire in my heart and the light in my eyes, for 31 years.

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renee Lupien-sMuLAn I want to nominate my stallion, DTD Jess Dancin, for the title of best Arabian because of the amazing struggle he has come through in the past year. After earning 26 regional level titles in-hand, under saddle, in sport horse, and main ring, “Dan” shattered his scapula in a freak accident in his paddock last July, one month before our first national show together.

Initially, I saw a large cut, and just assumed that it was a large soft tissue injury and had it treated locally. A few days later, however, I knew that it was much more serious and had him transported to the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. An ultrasound was done on his shoulder, and it was found that the spine of the scapula fractured right off. Initially, they planned for surgery the next day to remove the fragments.

However, the next morning when I arrived, they had much worse news for me. Further diagnostics had shown a compound comminuted fracture—the worst kind; multiple pieces overlapping each other. The head surgeon was completely shocked and never expected to find anything like that because of how well Dan was coping. My heart stopped beating I am sure. As an educated person, I knew what that meant … you can’t “fix” that kind of injury. The surgeon said any surgery was impossible because the heavy musculature was all that was holding his shoulder together.

Disturbing the blood flow would surely destroy the bone.

I was speechless and utterly devastated. What started as disappointment about missing a national show we worked so hard for, had turned into panic and grief. I was going to lose my horse. “I have NEVER seen anything like this before. We are in no man’s land,” were the surgeon’s words—I’ll never forget them.

But, he followed those words with, “If he was mine, I’d take him home and see what happens.” The doctor and staff were absolutely amazed at how Dan was handling things. Several times while I was there, they mentioned, “Only an Arabian … only an Arabian could tolerate pain like that … would try so hard for an owner … would be smart enough to learn how to move with a shattered shoulder … would have such a pleasant attitude when dealing with such circumstances.” It was him and his behavior that prompted the surgeon to suggest giving

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him a chance, where normally he would have strongly suggested the horse be euthanized.

Dan was able to move quite efficiently, so I hauled him nearly 500 kilometers to a nearby clinic. He hopped off with grace and ease, and proceeded to walk in, saying gentle hellos to the pretty ladies in the ward. He stood so still, with minimal sedation, while they did an ultrasound and prodded. He munched away on his hay that they gave him. He even laid down for a rest. They were in utter disbelief that he was still functioning.

I took him home the next day—another 500 kilometer trip. He adopted a stance similar to a reining horse stop; he loaded his hind legs and used a tremendous amount of hind end and back strength to stand and keep weight off the front end.

He laid down 80 percent of the time at first; he was definitely in pain and I spent many days laying with him and crying. I had no idea if he would survive. I went and got every conventional medication, homeopathic remedy, and anything I thought might help him. I spent hours out there just loving him, keeping his spirits up and his mind off his discomfort which were equally important in my mind.

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During this period of time, I was suffering health issues of my own—body pain, fatigue, balance issues, severe migraines, and the list went on. While all I wanted to do was stay in my bed all day due to feeling so ill, I knew I had to get up and go and look after Dan. While he definitely needed me to care for him, I desperately needed him to need me, though I didn’t realize it at the time.

through the winter and Dan kept me going every day out to the barn. In our new home, we have both continued to heal and grow. He is now on turnout in a full sized paddock beside another stallion that he likes to play games with. We share the limited budget I have for physical care—he gets a massage treatment, then I get one. We both have exercises we do to help keep our bodies functioning.

Slowly Dan started to improve. He started to put some weight on the bad leg. He would do a small rear, and lift both legs up, set both down and drag the bad leg backwards into position under him so he could support some weight on it. It was quite amazing to watch him adapt. The first day, I actually saw him move the leg forward with his own muscles—I was SO happy! The nerves were intact; he could move it! And through the days, his temperament remained amazing—he never changed.

He rarely seems to be in pain, but he is such a tough, strong character, so it is so hard to judge. He is happy, that is for sure. He has changed many opinions on Arabians since he has been in this Warmblood barn! He leaps, bucks, plays, and does his favorite ‘rearing on command’ trick for anyone who will watch.

Slowly, we started to step out of the stall, and eventually, he recovered to the point where we could go for short walks outside, which he loved. The next milestone was being turned out in a 10x10 panel pen, which grew until it was 40x40.

After moving to British Colombia, I had officially been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. I struggled with much pain

He has a huge heart to come through this the way he did, not to mention the brains and athleticism to look after himself through what should have been a life ending injury.

Through intense pain, being stalled completely for months on end, and enduring uncomfortable physical therapy, he is even sweeter than before. And he has gotten me through one of the most difficult years of my life and continues to give me a reason to get up and go forward, even on my worst days. If he can do it, I can do it! I truly believe he is the best Arabian horse in the world!

JAsMin spinKs This is Z Areena Ameera. The reason why my Arabian is the best in the world is because if I didn’t have her, I would not be on this amazing journey working with Arabian horses. Every day, she is amazing in every way! She licks me all over my face and never nibbles or bites; I have 100% trust in her and she trusts me.

She knows when something is on my mind, and doesn’t stop comforting me until I’m okay. My mum bought Ameera back in 2010 and before then, I hated horses, as I was scared of them. When she came home, everything changed. Her eyes and her beautiful, long forelock always capture me—she is the most amazing Arabian horse in the world. I love her so much, I have her name tattooed on my wrist in Arabic. Her name means ‘princess’ in Arabic and she truly is.

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nAtALie ALVes It is many years ago now from the day when my dad first laid eyes on him. He was simply driving past acres of prairie pasture, but it was impossible to avert his attention. In the most unlikely of places, in the most unlikely of situations, he experienced love at first sight. It was undeniable—my father fell in love with the Arabian horse at that very moment.

In the prairies of Alberta, Canada, my dad, Antonio Alves, was making the long road trip from British Columbia to stock up on hay for the summer. While driving through the endless green fields, he happened upon that sight that will stay with him forever. With flowing flaxen mane and tail pouring over his back, four bright white socks, and the most unmistakable red coat you have ever seen, he ran… well, he chased. Back and forth, and back and forth, the sweat-drenched, shortlegged cows barreled from one end of the field to the other.

The 3-year-old purebred Egyptian Arabian relentlessly herded the cows across the field again and again. My father, so confused, and yet intrigued as to why such an incredible beauty would be placed in such a spot, drove up to the house and knocked on the door. The farmer went on to tell him that his wife owned the horse and had tried desperately to ride him. He was too spirited and frankly, he scared her, but she loved him. Her husband on the other hand would like nothing more than to rid himself of the cause of his skinny cows.

Naturally, my dad offered to take the horse off of his hands.

The farmer’s wife was heartbroken, but knew he should have more to life than a field of cows. For $800, he loaded the red horse into his trailer, as the relieved cows put their heads to the hoof-stomped grass. Mor Gold, affectionately known as “Goldie”, was B.C. bound.

Goldie proved to be all energy and animation. He would prance and snort and throw his head to the sky, his sunkissed tail over his back. Nevertheless, my dad hopped right on and started Goldie on the trails. Once dad would finally think he had tired him out, he would turn him towards home and they were off like a bullet. At this point, dad knew there was one place Goldie would fit in—he was absolutely made for endurance.

Wearing a cowboy hat and sitting in a western saddle, they stood apart from many of the other competitors in their sleek helmets, English saddles, and tight clothing. But they

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weren’t there to ‘fit in’, they were there to impress. Dad and Goldie were always leading the pack with an energetic pace.

Together they won both races and best condition. My sister, Rebecca, and I, only toddlers at the time, would wait at the finish line to hug our heroes. Goldie and dad had found success, but his biggest feat was bonding with an untrusting creature. In those years, Goldie had become the partner of a lifetime to more than just the man who had saved him from a cow field. He became a teacher for my sister and I—he was our first mount. Goldie would pack us around for hours and he knew never to harm our little bodies. His untamed heart had been won and he won ours right back.

Dad owned Goldie for twenty-six years. At the age of thirty, we knew it was his time. In 2007 we lost a part of our family, a part that will never be forgotten. Goldie brought so much more into our lives than what he gave in twenty-six years. Because of him, twelve other Arabian horses have been members of our family, five of which were bred and raised on our farm. My sister and I have been showing for ten years now, most of those years in the Arabian horse circuit. He sparked a passion in us that will last a lifetime. For dad, I know Goldie gave him all that and so much more. Last Easter Sunday, my dad turned 60 and in May, for the first time, he jogged into the show ring, and I know Goldie was right alongside him. Goldie was never a show champion, he never even entered a show ring, but he made us champions, and for that, he is the best Arabian horse in the world. n

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Sartoria Lazzarin

“How we turn your dreams into tailormade suit.�

by Giorgia Mauri, photos by Emiliano Di Mauro

LLL Aldo Lazzarin, the founder, after he graduated at garment making school Accademia Snob in Rovigo, moved, at the beginning of fifties, to Milan and there began to work for Sartoria Comini.

In 1954 he opened his own firm and started his own history.

We met his son, Ermanno Lazzarin, today’s owner of the tailor’s shop, Sartoria Lazzarin, and of Eral55 shop, both in Corso Como’s area, in Milan.

“Attending my father’s tailor’s shop and observing my father at work, I got my passion for style and textile, above all for the unique pieces, thought and taylormade following the client’s desire.

The sartorial evolution and the opening of Eral55 Shop in Corso Como, Milan, which I did in 1976, have been attained with a lot of time and experience which let us become the unique and recognaizable benchmark for trendmakers all over.r.

Ermanno Lazzarin - Owner

In the tailor’s shop, deep passion and curiosity drove us to finalize some treatments on tissues or suits and jackets. Directly on tailored suits, washing and dyeing are made with a fine method: many proofs and a deep knowledge let us have a stable size and help us to prevent any damages like tissue shrinking or seams breaking.

Only the deep experience makes this goal possible: realizing unique taylormade suits in an excellent way.

The achievement of these garments, suits

and

man-jackets, is

entirely

handmade. We have the chance to use stuff from our quality stock which are lost by now or that come from last century’s ancient looms. Today’s high-tech looms cut time in the productive process, taking from the charm of the slow-productions.

Stuff from ancient looms

“One in a million decorations on tissues inside our jackets: our clients love this type of bespoke artworks to wear.”

Realizing a tailor-made suit requires about 30 hours, keeping out dyeing and finissage steps.

Customising the inside liner is also possible, with embroideries or paintings made by artists.

During our longlasting story, we have worked stimulating relationships up with many creative artists, who can decorate our tissues inspired by the client’s suggestion.

One in a million decorations on tissues inside our jackets: our clients love this type of bespoke artworks to wear.

Our clients put themselves into our hands and let us drive them through our “tissues menus”, choosing solutions close to their feeling; they do this because we can turn their dreams into garments that talk about them, and this is why our clothes are unique. Sometimes we realize also tissues on the client’s request. Colour combinations are often the result of different inspiration or are the outcome of a restyle of mixture from the past or from elsewhere.

Painting on jacket made by artists

LLL We have restyled some old polo players’ jackets (jackets worn during the early years of the twentieth century) using new colours, drawing on their original sport spirit and turning it into today’s creative power. For years we are working also with a market far away from our home, in geographical and cultural terms, in Tokyo, Japan. We periodically invite our customers at private shows of our last creations. That’s perfect to raise orders from clients who ask about bespoke

Everything we do in the tailor’s shop really means “luxury”: creations made by artists who are completely at the client’s disposal to propose them exclusive and personal garments.

made in Italy, enriched with brand new details. With this market, which has distintictive features, we have made

We have been working for years about the concept of luxury,

a creative relationship that inspires us

as outcome of long-time knowledge, handcrafted high quality

continuosly.

and inspiration from the street as an ideas’ lab.”

Sartoria Lazzarin

Sartoria Lazzarin Via Milazzo. 6 Milano Italy eralcinquantacinque@yahoo.it www.eral55.com

So far, which is in your opinion the most important feature that next generations must have?

“Passion, that turns our job into a hobby, in the next future will be always more valued.

I’m sure I’ll win the bet.”

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ermesponti

A local design company who works globally in luxury retail, luxury marine and residential projects. “Bespoke interiors can be the perfect portrait of you�.

by Giorgia Mauri

LLL

Ermes Ponti in person, Paolo and Daniela. By Martino Lombezzi - Contrasto

Talking to Daniela and Paolo Ponti of ermesponti, an

it. He focused the business on custom-made furniture.

Italian company highly specialized in custom made

Of course, he encouraged the craftsmen’s skills, but

furniture for interiors, located in Mantua, Italy.

he also improved them thanks to his own new ideas of lean production and organization.

L L L - Let’s begin with the firm’s history. When was the

His revolution was silent and quiet - like he is - but it

company established?

produced a radical change in staff and ways of

Daniela Ponti -The very first workshop was set up by Walter Ponti ( Ermes’s father) in the thirties as a typical

working. Despite the western economic crisis, we are still here due to his management skills.

family business. It was only an ordinary carpenters’ workshop. After the Second World War the workshop began to develop very quickly and when Ermes took

Anyway,

over, the business thrived for decades. At that time, in the sixties, the company worked both for industrial design and made-to-measure furniture.

Ermes was a very lucky young entrepreneur.

He began to work with one of the most famous designers in design history, Gio Ponti. After he graduated in Architecture at the University of Florence in 2001, Paolo (Ermes’ son) went into the family business and in a few years he radically changed

I think we can describe our core business with two simple words: bespoke interiors.

LLL

We design each interior with the client in mind.

Actually, we design it together with him.

L L L - Interesting story! It is not so usual hearing about

You can never imagine how a bespoke interior can

a family business which grows from one generation to

improve the quality of your life. The quality of life, of

another. And now - in the middle of this deep crisis of

working. We often ignore it the quality of life. So we

Italian consumer spending, what is Ermesponti’s core

miss one of the most important pleasures of life.

business right now?

Daniela Ponti - We haven’t been really affected by

We simply translate his requirements, his needs and

this crisis till now. Of course we feel the Italian and

also his dreams, into architectural form, space and

European economic situation. Although we are a local company (we are based in the northern part

rooms, all of which suit him perfectly.

of Italy and most Italian GDP comes from there), we actually work globally. Our projects are scattered all

Starting with a white sheet of paper, we sketch

around the world!

together his ideas, always bearing in mind location requirements. Even the site has its own peculiarities.

We design and produce bespoke furnishing for each site-specific project. There is only a glass door between our workshop and our office. I must say it, we have a first class workshop! Just imagine. It’s like a tailor shop in Naples or in Savile Row in London. As

Louis Kahn used to say that each room knows exactly what it wants to be. We call it “genius loci”. But, to be more practical, what we do is to match the client with the location. We create his own space. That’s all.

soon as you enter, we are able to design and make the perfect suit for you, your own suit. We think that an interior is like a bespoke suit and maybe more - it can

visit: http://notes.ermesponti.it/en/2013/11/ermesponti-

be a portrait. Maybe the best portrait of a client. And

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it can also be more comfortable than a bespoke suit.

L L L - As we know there are lots of companies in Italy

most famous entrepreneurs of our time too, Steve

specialized in furnishing.. What’s the key feature of

Jobs admitted learning from Leonardo da Vinci and

ermesponti? Why should a client choose you?

Michelangelo to achieve excellence. You have to be

Paolo Ponti - Actually, we are not a simple carpenters’

responsible for all processes.You must be involved from

shop. We are an interior-design firm. We guarantee

the creative phase to the making. Only if you know

the highest quality at the lowest possible cost and in

how things are to be done, can you really design them

the shortest time. That’s what we do for each client.

in a proper way. When Raffaello designed something

We are able to do that because we are in charge of

in his huge workshop, he perfectly knew how his pupils

all the process, end-to-end.

had to make it. One of the worst errors of our western culture is that we have forgotten that man always

This is the most important lesson we learned from

learns by doing. There’re lots of people who design

the history of the Italian Renaissance. One of the

something without knowing what it’s made of.

Sketches and drawings of the Corneliani Flagship store’s facade in Shanghai, By Martino Lombezzi - Contrasto

LLL

Corneliani Flagship Store - work in progress

There’re lots of people who design something without knowing what it’s made of.

Corneliani Flagship Store: VIP room in Milan. Photo by Cristiano Cossu. Site works and final realization in comparison (only three working weeks)

L L L - Can you give us some examples for a better understanding, please?

Paolo Ponti - Of course, we have plenty of examples and it might be useful to have a look at our case histories on the ermesponti website (ermesponti.it). But, anyway, one of them could be the Corneliani flagship store in Montenapoleone street, Milan. We gave a

Paolo and Daniela Ponti

complete turnkey service to Corneliani. We did the http://notes.ermesponti.it/en/2014/04/from-design-to-

restoration project of the entire building. As you can see from the picture below, we made the designs for the furnishing to integrate with structure and fittings.

This is the cylindrical VIP room; you can see how the design is site specific. Its circular shape comes from the features of the layout. The idea was to house the structural column over there and a structural beam was cut to let the staircase pass here.

Alberto our master carpenter in charge of production was able to build it and install it in 4 working weeks.

The key point is that if you design interiors considering how to coordinate site work and furniture production together. You definitively save time and money and achieve the best solution according to the brief that Sergio Corneliani gave us.

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LLL Another impressive example can be our case histories for Sanlorenzo Yachts. We began to work for the Marine

Industry only in the summer of 2010 and since then we have completed 14 yachts. We bring to this traditional

field all our experience gained in Luxury Retail and just after the very first two yachts we were able to reduce

the time schedule by 50%! We also did a good job with costs. We managed to reduce total cost by almost 30%.

Sanlorenzo Yacht ’s steering-gear. Photo by Cristiano Cossu.

As Italian architects, we think this is part of our own cultural background and ways of thinking.

L L L - You gave us an example from luxury retail and one from luxury marine. What about residential projects?

Daniela Ponti - This is absolutely the sector in which our skills and approach can express themselves at their best. As architects we are deeply engaged in interior design and we are firmly convinced that the crossfertilization between these different fields is a feature of utmost importance. And as Italian architects, we think this is part of our own cultural background and ways of thinking. I mean, moving across different disciplines such as architecture, art, interior decoration and carpentry.

LLL

Corneliani Flagship store’s facade in Shanghai.

Let me gave you a last example. When we took

But what is most impressive is that Corneliani took

charge of the design of the new Corneliani flagship

this pattern as its own brand. They used it for their

store facade in Shanghai, we expressed the strong

collection. So check out how creative fields can

bond between the fashion brand based in Mantua

inspire each other: from painting to architecture and

and we invented a new pattern by re-using a well-

even fashion!

known decorative motif of Andrea Mantegna (the world-famous painter of the Italian Renaissance who lived and worked all his lifetime here in Mantua).

Mantegna himself painted this being inspired by Donatello’s altar in Padua. The latter, in turn, was

See the video about it: http://notes.ermesponti.it/ en/2013/06/poddapontiarchitetti-design-the-newcornelianis-brand-pattern/#more-272

inspired by a famous facade of Roman Ruins..

I think this is the Italian forte! We are inventors... in the literal sense!

ermesponti Via Romana Zuccona,18 S. Biagio di Bagnolo S. Vito Mantova - Italy Phone +39 0376 251 266 info@ermesponti.it www.ermesponti.it Drawing for Corneliani Flagship store’s facade in Shanghai.

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Tips To Ensure A Healthy Show Season

by DR. BRIAN DAHMS DVM Show season is in full swing and horse owners are excited to be out and about with their horses. The recent outbreak of EHV-1 has taught us a lot and has owners and trainers more focused on what they can do going forward to keep their horses healthy while traveling and attending horse shows.

This is a good time to review some important points about general preventative care during the show season and any time your horse is exposed to horses from other facilities.

Regardless of their age, experience, or personality, all horses that are trailered to new locations experience an increase in the stress hormone cortisol. An increase in cortisol is associated with a decrease in immune system function. This decrease along with exposure to horses from other locations makes equine events a perfect place for horses to pick up transmittable diseases. The most common transmittable disease at horse shows are respiratory diseases such as Strangles, Influenza, Equine Herpes Virus and ERAV. A few simple steps can be taken to decrease the risk of spread of these diseases.

Biosecurity: Nose to nose contact between horses from different farms should be avoided. Do not share water buckets, bits, tack, etc. with horses from other farms.

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You Have Options A Quick Tour of Equine Colleges

by KARA LARSON

As Arabian horse youth riders and handlers, we grow up immersed in this horse world. Moments away from our prized horses and barn friends are spent sketching horses on the lined paper of notebooks and daydreaming of being a national champion. We live for our time in the saddle. But what happens when we graduate from the Arabian youth division? Up until this bittersweet point, our horse-centric lives haven’t entertained the thought of a horse-free existence. If college is on your radar, it can mean saying a harsh goodbye to the animals and horse show world that helped you become the person you are. However, as more and more colleges offer equine programs for students, it is entirely possible to keep horses in your life throughout your collegiate experience. Following are some of the top programs in the country that will not only keep horses in your life, but prepare you for a meaningful and unique future as well.

As ranked by horseschools.com, the following schools have incredibly promising options in many equine related fields. Ranked in several categories, like teacher to student ratio, horse to student ratio, instructed rides per week, average riding class size, tuition, and more, here are the top ten schools in the U.S. and Canada.

Finding the right school for you is not a simple decision. The unknown future is a daunting place, but researching properly beforehand can make all the difference. Today, this process is easier than ever. Whether you’re looking for a big school with an equine program on the side or an exclusively equine program, your future is yours. It is your responsibility to take your dreams and talents and build a life in which you are proud to live. Maybe your future consists of Veterinary School, being a full time riding instructor, an Equine Massage Therapist, or something else in the horse-related career field, but regardless of direction, it is vital to live every day attempting to make this world and those around you better. The sooner you realize that you control your own destiny, the sooner you will be able to find yourself on a path worth living.

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1. Meredith Manor International Equestrian Centre—Waverly, WV With 85 total equestrian students, this program was established in 1963. 150 horses, a whopping 7 indoor arenas, 8-16 instructed rides per week, and majors like Riding Master I – VI, Teaching Certification, and Equine Massage Therapy Certification, this program has a reputation for excellence.

2. Ellsworth Community College

Iowa Falls, IA

32 equestrian students, pooled from a total of 1,200 fulltime students, have the chance to work with 53 horses at this program. Established in 1988, equine majors offered here are an AAS in Equine Management and Equine Science.

3. Black Hawk College

Galva, IL

With one horse available per student (70 horses and 70 students), this equine program was established in 1972. An incredible 5 instructed rides per week and majors in Equestrian Science and Horse Science Technology make this program a unique one.

4. University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH

Established in 1965, this small equine program of 85 equestrian students fits into the scheme of 11,000 total students at the university. 32 horses comprise the program, and the equine majors offered are a BS in Equine Studies and an AAS in Applied Equine Management.

5. Olds College—Olds, AB Canada With the largest horse to student ratio of them all, Olds College boasts 200 horses to its 80 equestrian students.

Established in 1975, this Canadian school offers an Equine Science Diploma and 5 instructed rides per week.

6. Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar, VA

This time-honored program was established in 1934 and is comprised of 150 students, 45 horses, and four arenas. An Equine Studies Certificate is offered and this program boasts the best average riding and lecture class sizes.

7. Rocky Mountain College

Billings, MT

75 students match up with 75 horses at this 3-arena facility.

Established in 1988, the major to be studied is Equestrian Studies as students enjoy 3-4 instructed rides per week.

8. Virginia Intermont College

Bristol, VA

Of 558 total full time students, there are 78 equestrian students in this 70-horse program. As 5 instructors lead 4 instructed rides per week, small lecture and riding classes make this school a viable option to study Equine Studies.

9. William Woods University

Fulton, MO

One of the oldest programs in the country, this school was established in 1924. A sound reputation built on successful students and respected instructors has enhanced the standing of the program. With 200 students, 157 horses, and 3 arenas, the school offers a BS in Equine Science and a BS in Equine Administration.

10. Linn-Benton Community College

Albany, OR

Offering an impressive 6-12 hours of instructed rides per week, this west coast school has 15 horses for 48 equestrian students.

With a 2-year program length, an AS in Equine Science and an AAS in Horse Management are the areas of study available.

- Rounding out the top twenty 11. West Texas A&M University

16. University of Findlay

12. Utah State University

17. Michigan State University

13. University of Maryland

18. University of Louisville

14. South Dakota State University

19. University of Nebraska

15. Murray State University

20. Pennsylvania State University

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Things You Don’t Know About Me … Lauren Grabski

1. The first horse I ever rode or handled was … at various riding camps growing up. However, the first horse I ever really rode was Reyna, a palomino Quarter Horse.

2. My happiest moment with a horse was … when I was 15, my mom surprised me at Christmas with my first horse, Mi Mini Me—I cried like a baby.

3. The first ribbon I ever won was … on my mom’s Half-Arabian mare, SF Glory Bound. I showed her in H/A Country 13 & Under at a Class A show and was second out of three.

4. My f irst influence in the horse industry was … definitely, my mother. She is the one who chose to pursue this crazy passion after waiting patiently for her children to grow up and brought me along for the ride!

5. The f irst breed of horse involved with was … Quarter Horses, I think. My mom and I found a local boarding stable near our house and bought two of their sale horses. We really just wanted to ride!

6. The age I got involved with horses was … a younger age than I can remember. My parents were both in the military when my brothers and I were young, and every summer they would send us to a horse riding day camp. Unlike my brothers, I loved it!

7. The f irst thing I do when I get to the barn is … grab a horse!

8. The last thing I do when I leave the barn is … mark the board for the next day.

9. The greatest horse I’ve ever ridden is … is Mi Mini Me, my Half-Hackney pony. Blake Krohn bred him, and my mom bought him for me as a three year old, as the Krohn boys were too big to ride him. We grew up together and taught each other everything. He is my other half. He always tries his absolute hardest, and I love him.

10. The most gratifying part of my job is … creating a bond with my horses. They are all so unique from their personalities to their talents. Nothing makes me happier than to have a horse respond to me and the things that I am asking of it. I love that my first horse to start and finish, Moonpie in the Sky (aka Harley), recognizes the sound of my spurs walking into the barn in the morning and the sound of my voice when I’m close to his stall and whinnies at me. We have formed an undeniable bond.

11. My favorite restaurant is … anywhere with good pizza. I’m a simple girl.

12. My favorite non-horse hobby is … oil painting. Though lately, I haven’t had any time to dedicate to it.

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13. My favorite genre of movie is … scary ones or anything with really dumb humor.

14. When someone asks me, why Arabians, I say … honestly, my mom chose the breed, but I’m so glad she did. Arabians are the smartest and most ambitious horses that I’ve ever worked with. They can learn new concepts with ease, and try hard every time they are asked to work.

15. My favorite division to show in is … hunter. I grew up showing saddle seat, and while it is fun, I love the technical aspect of hunter. You don’t have the same adrenaline in hunter that you can use to engage your horse. Therefore, you have to have cues for everything and exercise total control over their bodies to make them perform at their highest degree of difficulty.

16. In my free time, I like to … watch movies. I will literally watch anything at least halfway through. If I haven’t seen it, I most likely want to.

17. Horses have taught me … patience. Most of the horses that I’ve trained have been green broke. I have grown to prefer it that way. My favorite thing to do is to teach young horses new things. In my experience, it is essential to listen to your horse. They will tell you when they are ready for the next step, and it is best not to rush that process.

18. My top vacation spot is … anywhere warm or relaxing. If it’s the beach, I love the temperatures and being outside. If it’s the mountains, I will be wrapped in a blanket by the fire watching movies. I’m not picky.

19. Few foods make me happier than … chocolate.

20. Without horses, I would be … miserable. I used to play club soccer in high school.

It would take up my weekends and afternoons. After about a week without riding, I would be so cranky and grouchy that my mom would drive me out to the farm just to put a smile back on my face. She figured out the reasoning long before I did. Mother knows best!

21. The piece of tack or equipment that I can’t live without is … a martingale—it’s my favorite piece of tack. I couldn’t start young ones without it, but it is still enough leverage to productively work a finished horse.

22. My childhood dream job was … for a long time, pre-Arabians, I wasn’t sure. I was always good at math, but aside from teaching, what good did that do me. After my first year of riding Arabians, I knew that training is what I wanted to do.

23. My favorite breeding bloodline is … Pryme Thyme. All of our offspring from him have been some of our best show horses. They are so intelligent, good-minded and make great amateur horses. They are also ambitious and are easily inspired. They rise to whatever level their rider asks of them.

24. My biggest pet peeve is … so many, so little time!

25. The most influential person in my life is … my mother. She inspires and supports me every single day. She has molded me into the person I am today through patience and love. I can honestly say, I would not be who or where I am today without her. She is the best person I know. I hit the lottery when it comes to mothers! n Volume 45, No. 1 | 371

AmAteur Spotlight

Michelle Pease-Paulsen

What are the similarities between yourself and your horse? I have a few Arabian horses, but would have

to say the horse I am the most similar to, is Prince, as we are both perfectionists; we both have our comfort zones and like to stay there. We both think a lot, and tend to overthink at times, getting upset if we make a mistake.

What makes you happiest? I am always happy when

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to the barn and get on my ponies and forget the worries of the day. But I also love spending time at home laying on the couch with my husband and dogs watching movies.

What do you most value in your friends? Your horses? For friends, honesty, compassion, and trust. In my

horses, the happy attitude each has, the forgiveness if I make mistakes, and having the drive and spirit to try and give all that they can.

Which living person do you most admire? I

would have to say my dad for his character as a family and businessman. Every time I see him handle situations, I am amazed and I continue to strive to be as good as he is.

What is your motto? “Never give up and keep working to improve.” We are never perfect … but we can try to be.

If you could be anyone for one day, who would it be and why? I am a huge vampire, zombie, witch, etc., fan, so I

would love to be a badass TV/movie character like Alice from “Resident Evil” or Buffy from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” To be able to fight and kick ass like they do would be awesome.

What is your most treasured memory with the Arabian horse? One that stands out would be when I

was called top ten with ‘Bugsy’ at last year’s U.S. Nationals in western pleasure, proving that a reiner could do it. When they called my number, I burst into tears and laid on his neck. He gave me all that he could that night; he channeled his inner pleasure horse.

What is your very first memory with the Arabian horse? I got my first Arabian when I was 10 and had the

cutest little red outfit … red hat, chaps, pants, dyed boots and shirt that had tiny white flowers on it. Anyway, I had to have matching makeup. I remember prior to my first show, sitting at the Clinique counter at Nordstrom as the makeup ladies were finding the perfect lipstick and blush. I felt like a grown up and I could not wait to to show in my first class.

If you could show one horse from the past, who would you show and why? I would have to say Graffiti.

He was a country horse we had early on in my amateur career.

Hours before leaving for U.S. Nationals, he died. If I could have the chance to show him again, it would be amazing. His life was cut short and he did not have the chance to prove how amazing I knew he was.

If you could have one super power, what would it be and why?

The ability to snap my fingers and make anything happen. I think this would be more of a supernatural power rather than a super power, but it’s the one power I wish I had.

What is the most memorable piece of show ring advice you’ve ever received? Early on, LaRae said to me,

“Never quit riding. You do not know who may or may not have seen you make a mistake. And if you do make a mistake, make it look like it was your idea.” You’re better off making a mistake with confidence than without.

What would be your ultimate dream job? Honestly,

to just show horses. If I had unlimited funds, I would want to travel all over the United States showing my Arabians and hunters year round.

What do you love most about showing Arabian horses? I love the diversity of our shows and breed. I think we

are the only breed that can range from the English, to western/ working western, to halter, to the sport horse divisions.

Who has had the biggest influence in your involvement with Arabians? My parents. Without their passion and support, I would not be where I am today.

What piece of advice would you give to the 10-year-old version of yourself ? The 40-year-old version of yourself ? For the 10-year-old me … it is ok to not win and if you get a chocolate ribbon, accept it with grace. For the 40-year-old me … (well, lol, that will be next year) it is ok to not control everything. They are horses and STOP overthinking, especially in reining and jumping.

What have you learned from riding and showing that has helped you in other areas of your life?

Showing horses taught me early on that life isn’t fair. We win and we lose … sometimes when we should and should not. These lessons came in handy growing up, especially in school when kids could be mean and things did not go well.

It also taught me that you are getting someone’s opinion and to not take it personally if they do not choose you or your ride. In my job, I deal with all sorts of people— some like me and some don’t—but I move on, and keep going.

Special thanks and appreciation to: My

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SEMINARS/CLINICS/SALES/ OPEN HOUSE/AWARDS

August 2-3, 2014, Varian Arabians Diamond Jubilee, Celebrating 60 Years, Arroyo Grande, California. Contact: 805-489-5802.

August 7-10, 2014, Saddle Seat Riding Clinic, William Woods University, Fulton, Missouri. Contact: Gayle Lampe, 573-592-4395.

REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

July 3-5, 2014, Region 6 Championship, Douglas, Wyoming. Contact: Claude Clark, 406-388-3364.

July 3-6, 2014, Region 11 Championship Show, Springfield, Illinois. Contact: Dave Waggoner, 309-338-5128.

July 3-6, 2014, Region 15 Championship, Lexington, Virginia. Contact: Marilyn Norton, 715-514-5478.

July 8-12, 2014, Region 3 Championship, Reno, Nevada. Contact: Sharon Richards, 916-645-2288.

July 8-12, 2014, Region 5 Championship, Monroe, Washington. Contact: Patricia Ann Hough, 253-847-8842.

July 9-12, 2014, Region 16 Championship, Syracuse, New York. Contact: Donna Auber, 330-274-2039.

July 17, 2014, Eastern Canadian Breeders Championship, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Contact: Dan Cross, 519-483-2239.

July 18-19, 2014, Region 18 Championship, Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Dan Cross, 519-483-2239.

July 21-26, 2014, Region 17 Championship, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Contact: Marion Enders, 403-227-0538.

August 1-3, 2014, East Coast Championship, Lexington, Virginia. Contact: Pamela McDermott, 770-728-4383.

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September 7, 2014, Region 18 Sport Horse and Dressage Offsite Championship, Campbellville, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Dan Cross, 519-483-2239.

September 18-21, 2014, Region 8 Working Western Offsite Championship, Castle Rock, Colorado. Contact: Jo Anne Read, 303-648-3261.

September 21-22, 2014, Region 9 55-Mile 2 Day Competitive Trail Ride Championship, Decatur, Texas. Contact: Jean Green, 580-351-9301.

October 4, 2014, Region 12 50-Mile Endurance Championship Ride, Hefflin, Alabama. Contact: Tamra Schoech, 770-554-1545.

SHOWS JULY July 2, 2014, Region 6 Pre-One Day Show, Douglas, Wyoming. Contact: Becky McAllister, 406-861-4929.

July 2, 2014, Region 11 Pre-Show A and B, Springfield, Illinois. Contact: Nancy Harvey, 626-355-9101.

July 2, 2014, Region 15 Pre-Show, Lexington, Virginia. Contact: Marilyn Norton, 715-514-5478.

July 4-5, 2014, CAHC Northern Div. Estes Park One Day Show I and II, Estes Park, Colorado. Contact: Jo Anne Read, 303-648-3261.

July 4-6, 2014, Flagstaff All Arab Show, Flagstaff Riding Center, Arizona. Contact: Melanni Hershberger, 480-443-3372.

July 6-8, 2014, Region 3 Last Chance Qualifying Show, Reno Nevada. Contact: Sharon Richards, 916-645-2288.

July 7, 2014, Region 5 Pre-Show, Monroe, Washington. Contact: Patricia Ann Hough, 253-847-8842.

July 9, 2014, Region 16 Hunter Jumper Qualifier, Syracuse, New York. Contact: Donna Auber, 330-274-2039.

July 10-13, 2014, Great Arabian Get Together, Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Contact: Leesa Berhow, 715-294-3092.

July 12, 2014, Show Your Horse Sport Horse Challenge One Day Show, Newberry, Florida.

Contact: Nannet Read, 352-278-2004.

July 12-13, 2014, Road Runner Sport Horse Show II, Tucson, Arizona. Contact: Rosemary Gordon Panuco, 520-797-6921.

July 12-13, 2014, OVAHA Summer Sizzler IA and II B, Springfield, Ohio. Contact: Jean Hedger, 937-434-6114.

July 12-13, 2014, Sunrise Summer Classic, Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada. Contact: Dawn Browm, 506-433-5725.

July 17, 2014, Region 18 Last Chance, Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Dan Cross, 519-483-2239.

July 17-19, 2014, Working Western Celebration, St. Paul, Minnesota. Contact: Sandy Woerle, 651-288-4330.

July 31, 2014, Eastern Arab Horse Show, Lexington, Virginia. Contact: Pamela McDermott, 770-728-4383.

July 31-August 2, 2014, Missouri State Fair, Sedalla, Missouri. Contact: Lenard, Davenport, 417-888-0686.

July 31-August 3, 2014, NRHA Fall Futurity (Arabian and H/A 4-year-old Futurity), St. Paul, Minnesota. Contact: Sandy Woerle, 651-288-4330.

AUGUST August 1-3, 2014, WAHA August Show, Jefferson, Wisconsin. Contact: Jan Lerud, 715-488-2834.

August 2-3, 2014, Daffodil Arab Summer Show, Puyallup, Washington. Contact: Linsey O’Donnell, 253-988-4265.

August 8-10, 2014, GAHA Summer Classic, Conyers, Georgia. Contact: Jean Buddin, 228-826-1486.

August 9-10, 2014, Arabians In Motion Sport Horse Classic, Lake Oswego, Oregon. Contact: Amanda Howell, 503-639-0249.

August 9, 2014, Southern Cross Cutting Summer Spectacular One Day Show, Foster, Oklahoma. Contact: Kristina Garland, 940-580-0383.

August 15-17, 2014, Erie County Fair, Hamburg, New York. Contact: Charlotte Jatnes, 607-546-7373.

August 16-17, 2014, AHAM Summer One Day Show I and II, Mason, Michigan. Contact: Sara Ressler, 248-922-0148.

August 22-24, 2014, Heritage Arabian Classic I A and B, Wakefield, Virginia. Contact: Marie Taylor, 804-314-5216.

August 22-24, 2014, New York State Fair, Syracuse, New York. Contact: Tari Weston, 3 15-695-1332.

August 23-24, 2014, OHAHA Fall Show A and B, Springfield, Ohio. Contact: Donna Auber, 330-274-2039.

August 24, 2014, ASAAD Summer Fun One Day Show, Valparaiso, Indiana.

Contact: Melanie Schuhmacher Forbes, 219-671-2461.

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August 28-30, 2014, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota. Contact: Patty Humphries, 651-288-4480.

August 28-September 1, 2014, Iowa Fall Classic, Des Moines, Iowa. Contact: Laurie Persson, 920-568-9073.

August 29-31, 2014, WMAHA Fall Classic, Mason, Michigan. Contact: Jean Hedger, 937-434-6114.

August 29-31, 2014, Silver Spur All Arab, Hamburg, New York. Contact: Lindsey Hager, 716-481-4907.

August 30, 2014, CAHC Southern Division One Day Show @ Latigo, Elbert, Colorado.

Contact: Jo Anne Read, 303-648-3261.

SEPTEMBER September 5-7, 2014, Abu All Arabian, Springfield, Illinois. Contact: Laurie Persson, 920-568-9073.

September 6, 2014, Milestone Fall Show, Campbellville, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Cheryl Smith, 905-854-0762.

September 11-13, 2014, National Show Horse Finals, Springfield, Illinois. Contact: Donna Auber, 330-274-2039.

September 12-14, 2014, State Fair of Texas A and B, Dallas, Texas. Contact: Beth Walker, 225-772-6815.

September 12-14, 2014, Annual Magnolia Summer Sizzler, Perry, Georgia. Contact: Nancy Baker, 828-305-4023.

September 13, 2014, Fun In The Fall Arab & HA/AA One Day Show, Powell Butte, Oregon. Contact: Kyleigh Lamb, 541-548-0313.

September 13-14, 2014, Indiana Arab Pro-Am Show, Rochester, Indiana. Contact: Terry Leek, 574-269-2980.

September 17-20, 2014, Arabian Horse Celebration, Louisville, Kentucky. Contact: Jean Beck, 559-642-2072.

September 18-20, 2014, Autumn Classic Arab Show, South Jordan, Utah. Contact: Dayle Dickhaut, 208-234-0157.

September 18-21, 2014, CAHC Fall Show, Castle Rock, Colorado. Contact: Jo Anne Read, 303-648-3261.

September 18-22, 2014, American Royal Arab Horse Show, Kansas City, Missouri. Contact: Ruth Charpie, 816-765-5683.

September 19-21, 2014, Autumn Classic A and B, Bryan, Texas. Contact: Patty Liarakos, 210-912-8679.

September 25-26, 2014, Tulsa State Fair, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Contact: Ruth Charpie, 816-765-5683.

September 26-28, 2014, Diablo Fall Fling, Elk Grove, California. Contact: Melanni Hershberger, 480-443-3372.

September 26-28, 2014, Arabian Fall Classic, Eugene, Oregon. Contact: Diane Leclere, 541-895-8646.

September 27-28, 2014, Ozark Heartland Arab Fall Classic I and II One Day Show, Mt. Vernon, Missouri. Contact: Lenard Davenport, 417-888-0686.

OCTOBER October 3-5, 2014, Dixie Gulf Panhandle Ruff Out, Baker, Florida. Contact: Jean Buddin, 228-826-1486.

October 4, 2014, Chile Roast Sport Horse and Dressage One Day Show, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Contact: Tara Turner, 505-832-6823.

October 4, 2014, CRAA Fall Finale One Day Show, East Haddam, Connecticut. Contact: Debbi Thomas, 860-526-9526.

October 5, 2014, Chile Roast One Day Show A and B, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Contact: Tara Turner, 505-832-6823.

October 31-November 2, 2014, Western Carolinas Fall Show, Clemson, South Carolina.

Contact: Nancy Baker, 828-305-4023.

NOVEMBER November 6-9, 2014, NTAHC Shootout, Glen Rose, Texas. Contact: Sherry McGraw, 903-872-7279.

November 14-16, 2014, Music City Arab Show, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Contact: Donna Auber, 330-274-2039.

DECEMBER December 4-7, 2014, Saguaro Classic, Scottsdale, Arizona. Contact: Melanni Hershberger, 480-443-3372.

ENDURANCE/ COMPETITIVE TRAIL RIDE

July 5, 2014, AHAM 50-Mile Endurance Ride, Augusta, Michigan. Contact: Linda Hamricck, 260-602-9660.

July 5, 2014, Master The Mountain 55-Mile Endurance Ride, Tionesta, Pennsylvania.

Contact: Patricia Stedman, 716-257-5349.

July 12, 2014, Mosquito Run 50-Mile Endurance Ride, Rogers, Minnesota. Contact: Peggy Pasillas, 651-450-7959.

July 13, 2014, Mosquito Run 25-Mile Competitive Trail Ride, Rogers, Minnesota.

Contact: Peggy Pasillas, 651-450-7959.

July 19-20, 2014, Grand Island North 50Mile Endurance Ride, Rapid River, Michigan.

Contact: Linda Hamrick, 260-602-9660.

August 3-9, 2014, Shore To Shore 50-Mile Endurance Ride I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII, White Cloud, Michigan. Contact: Linda Hamrick, 260-602-9660.

August 30, 2014, White River 55-Mile Endurance Ride, White Cloud, Michigan.

Contact: Linda Hamrick, 260-602-9660.

August 31, 2014, White River 100-Mile Endurance Ride, White Cloud, Michigan.

Contact: Linda Hamrick, 260-602-9660.

August 31-September 1, 2014, White River 50-Mile Endurance Ride I and II, White Cloud, Michigan. Contact: Linda Hamrick, 260-602-9660.

September 13, 2014, Tin Cup Springs 50-Mile Endurance Ride, Luther, Michigan. Contact: Linda Hamrick, 260-602-9660.

September 20, 2014, Virginia City 100-Mile Endurance Ride, Virginia City, Nevada.

Contact: Gina Hall, 775-849-0839.

September 27, 2014, Pine Marten Run 50Mile Endurance Ride, Rapid River, Michigan.

Contact: Linda Hamrick, 260-602-9660.

October 2-4, 2014, Alabama Yellowhammer Pioneer 50-, 55-, and 75-Mile Endurance Ride, Hefflin, Alabama. Contact: Tamra Schoech, 770-554-1545.

October 4, 2014, Red Rock Rumble 50-Mile Endurance Ride, Reno, Nevada. Contact: Gina Hall, 775-849-0839.

October 11, 2014, Oak Leaf Run 50-Mile Endurance Ride, Hamilton, Michigan.

Contact: Linda Hamrick, 260-602-9660.

NATIONAL EVENTS

July 19-26, 2014, Youth Nationals, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Contact: AHA, 303-6966-4500.

August 11-16, 2014, Canadian Nationals, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Contact: AHA, 303-6966-4500.

September 24-27, 2014, Sport Horse Nationals, Nampa, Idaho. Contact: AHA, 303-6966-4500.

October 17-25, 2014, U.S. Nationals, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Contact: AHA, 303-6966-4500.

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A AB Centre .......................................... 8 Reg7 (42) AHT Boutique ...............120-121Youth (222-223) AHT E-Blast Service ....................................... 313 AHT On The Road ......................154Youth (256) AHT Region 9 ................................................ 307 AHT Subscriptions .......................................... 376 AHT U.S. Nationals Preview ............................ 25 AKS Farms ........................ 94-99Youth (196-201) Al Saqran Stud ................................................ 8, 9 Al Shaqab ...............................................382, IBC Aljassimya Farm .................................................. 5 Allevamento La Frasera .........6-7Tutto (330-331) Al-Marah Arabians ....... 148-149Youth (250-251) Arabian Celebration .......................................... 16 Arabian Horse Global ....................................... 17 Arabian Reining Breeders Classic .............. 14, 15

B Bay Area Equestrian Center ........................................50-51Youth (152-153) Beethe Arabians ............................. 80Youth (182) Bein Performance Horses ...58-59Youth (160-161) Beloveds Farm ............................................ IFC, 1 Bisch Training ................... 53-57Youth (155-159) Buckshot Farms .............................. 80Youth (182) Burkman Centre ...................18, 19, 7Youth (109)

C Cactus Rose Ranch ...............6 Reg7 (40), 111-117Youth (213-219) Cari Thompson Training ................. 10 Reg7 (44) Cedar Ridge Arabians .............. 9 Reg7 (43), 136-147Youth (238-249) Chantilly 2014 Breeders’ European Championship ..............................1Tutto (325) ChriShan Park ................... 43-45Youth (145-147) Christy Higman-Clements Training ....................................... 89-93Youth (191-195) Colonial Wood Training Center, Inc. ........................................17-22Youth (119-124) Crescent Creek Farms ....... 18-21Youth (120-123) Culbreth Equine Training & Management LLC ................ 2-3 Reg7 (36-37) Curley, Sheila.................................. 16Youth (118) Cylent Arabians LLC..................... 66Youth (168)

D DC Arabians.................................135Youth (237) DeRegnaucourt Ltd. ...................... 52Youth (154) Desert Heritage Magazine ............. 40Tutto (364)

E Earthquake Arabians......... 46-49Youth (148-151) Equus Arabians ......................4-5Tutto (328-329)

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Feldman, Hannah........................... 42Youth (144) Flood Show Horses ......7 Reg7 (41), 200-202Youth (302-304), 305 Foxbriar Arabians .............................................. 24 Frierson Atkinson ............................................ 376

Quarry Hill Farm ............................................ 376

G Glans, Paul.......................................... 5 Reg7 (39)

H Harris Show Horses ..............32-37Youth (134-139), 77Youth (179) Hat Lady, The ................................................. 377 Hazlewood Arabians LLC ........... 34, 1 Reg7 (35) Hegg, Mrs. Mickey ......................................... 377 Hesten Park ..................100-103Youth (202-205) Highland Pride Arabians .................7Youth (109) Huss Performance Horses .............. 77Youth (179)

I IIB Farms........................................ 66Youth (168) Il Paradiso Arabians ...............8-9Tutto (332-333)

J Jeffrey Wilms Training & Management Inc. ........................... 4 Reg7 (38)

K Kiesner Training ................60-65Youth (162-167) KRE Show Horses @ Green Acres Ranch, Inc. .................................. 122-124Youth (224-226)

L Larson, Nicole ................................ 29Youth (131) Laurie Martin Show Horses ............ 48 Reg7 (82) Leo Arabians ......... 323, 2-3Tutto (326-327), 365 Liberty Farm LLC ....................... 108Youth (210) LMB Arabians .................................................. 83 Lowe Show Horse Centre ................................... 102, 1-6Youth (103-108)

M Markel............................................. 68Youth (170) Maroon Fire Arabians Inc. ............................. 377 Marshall, Elma ................................................ 376 McDonald Arabians .......................................... 33 Midwest ...........................................7-9, 382, IBC

N Nejd Arabians .........................8-9Tutto (332-333)

P Pawsitive Pawsibilities .................. 109Youth (211) Pay-Jay Arabians .............................................. 377 Perkins, Suzanne & Perry ........................... 18, 19 Platinum Performance Horses ..... 110Youth (212) Prestige Farms LLC .................................... 12, 13

R R.O. Lervick Arabians .................................... 376 Ralston Training Center ..................................150, 153Youth (252, 255) Rancho Sonado ................................... 8 Reg7 (42) Regency Cove Farms .................... 34, 1 Reg7 (35) Remington Monroe Equine LLC ....................................... 32-37Youth (134-139) Rivero International .................................... 10, 11 Rooker Training Stable ..... 78-79Youth (180-181) Ross Tarkington Stables ...............152Youth (254) Rushlow’s Arabians ....... 105-107Youth (207-209)

S Santa Ynez Futurity........................................... 31 Scott Allman Arabians...........8-9Tutto (332-333) Scott Scheyli Performance Horses .........................................23Youth (125) Select Show Horses ............ 69-76Youth (171-178) Shea Stables ..................................................... 377 Showtime Training Center .......................................24-28Youth (126-130) Silver Aspen Ranch ........................ 67Youth (169) Simeon Stud .......................12-13Tutto (336-337) Smoky Mountain Park Arabians .....................BC Stachowski Farm ......................... 29, 32-37Youth (131, 134-139) Steve Heathcott Arabians ................................. 84 Stone Ridge Arabians.......................................... 7 Straight Egyptian World Championship ....... 324 Strand’s Arabian Stables ................................. 2, 3

T The Brass Ring ................... 18, 19, 16Youth (118) Tutto Arabi ........323, 10-11Tutto (334-335), 366

V Valencia Farms................... 81-83Youth (183-185) Vicki Humphrey Training Center ......................................... 8-15Youth (110-117)

W Westbury Park Arabians International ............FC Western Cross Arabians & Pintos ................................... 150-151Youth (252-253) Whelihan Arabians ........................ 67Youth (169) Wilkins Livestock Insurers, Inc. ..................... 377 Wolf Springs Ranch ...............................84-88Youth (186-190), 306

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(Marwan Al Shaqab x White Silkk) 2010 Stallion

Š Nawaf Al Johani

2012 Scottsdale Champion Colt - Unanimous 2012 U.S. National Champion Colt 2013 U.S. National Champion Colt - Unanimous 2014 ABWC Gold Champion Stallion

pseterra@qf.org.qa www.AlShaqab.com

Š Stuart Vesty

STANDING AT STUD WITH MIDWEST TRAINING CENTER

MIDWEST TRAINING CENTER www.midwestarabian.com David Boggs - midwest@sbwireless.net Nate White - natemidwest@sbwireless.net

REGION

12

WINNERS

4 SHOWN 1 CHAMPION 3 RESERVES NEGLIGEE SMP (Baskghazi x Night Slippers) 2014 Region 12 Champion H/A Breeders Sweepstakes Yearling Filly

QUINTESSENTIAL FIRE (Baskghazi x Afires Quintina+) 2014 Region 12 Reserve Champion Arabian Country English Pleasure Junior Horse Owned by LA Flynn

BASKADONIS SMP (Baskghazi x HF Ariana) 2014 Region 12 Reserve Champion Stallion

BASKE GHAZELLE (Baskghazi x She's A Phenomenon) 2014 Region 12 Reserve Champion H/A Breeders Sweepstakes Yearling Filly Owned by Becky Upchurch Baske Afire x RY Fire Ghazi, by El Ghazi U.S. National Top Ten Arabian English Pleasure Breeders Sweepstakes Nominated • Region 12 Spotlight Stallion Scottsdale Signature Stallion • WCAHA All Star Futurity • AEPA Enrolled Sire

Rod & Jacqueline Thompson

Lenoir City, TN

865.816.0070 • 865.816.2406

www.SmokyMountainParkArabians.com