AQHA Professionals of the Year

instructing hunter under saddle and working hunter at AQHA Judges Educational Seminars, judging multiple AQHA world championship shows and is an AQHA 20-year breeder.

She began providing riding lessons in the mid-1980s and hauled students to horse shows, which led to a lifelong love of learning and teaching. She won her first AQHA world championship in halter in 1974 and in 1988 attended her first world show as a professional trainer. As a horse trainer for more than 30 years, her passion has not changed, it is about horses and youth. Her appreciation for all disciplines and her desire to be a better horsewoman fuels her fire for continued learning.

The 2022 Most Valuable Professional is Robin Frid of Pilot Point, Texas.

Frid and his wife, Jenny, opened their training facility in 2006. They have trained and coached many of their clients for years. As a world champion and highly sought after judge for national and international American Quarter Horse competitions, Frid’s chief passion and duty is to give his all.

Frid has been an AQHA Professional Horseman since 2011.

He has also served as a past chairman on the AQHA Show and Professional Horsemens councils. He has been an AQHA judge for 16 years and is also an AQHA director. With 40 AQHA world and reserve world champion titles and 75 Congress and reserve Congress champion titles, his success speaks for itself. Frid is a strong teacher and guide. His complete loyalty to and respect for each client knows no bounds. He took his innate love and passion for American Quarter Horses and their riders, combined it with his strong ethical fiber and shares his talent and experience with everyone.

Being named a Nutrena AQHA Professional Horseman of the Year or Most Valuable Professional are the top awards an AQHA Professional Horseman can receive in the equine industry. Each year, individuals are nominated by AQHA

Professional Horsemen for the prestigious honor of being named a Nutrena AQHA Professional Horseman of the Year. From these nominations, the slates of nominees for the Nutrena Don Burt Professional Horseman of the Year and Nutrena Professional Horsewoman of the Year awards are compiled by the AQHA Professional Horsemen’s Council and approved by the AQHA Executive Committee. All AQHA Professional Horsemen then vote to determine the Nutrena AQHA Professional Horsemen of the Year award recipients. The Most Valuable Professional is nominated by their home affiliate and then voted on by their fellow AQHA Professional Horsemen.

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FDA approves first generic moxidectin injectable solution for cattle parasite treatment

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved Tauramox as the first generic moxidectin injectable solution indicated for “beef and nonlactating dairy cattle for the treatment and control of internal and external parasites in cattle.”1 Tauramox is an antiparasitic drug that contains the same concentration of moxidectin in the same injectable dosage form as the approved brand name drug product, Cydectin, which was first approved on May 20, 2005. As with Cydectin, residues in food products derived from beef and nonlactating dairy cattle treated with Tauramox will not represent a public health concern when the product is used according to the label.1 The FDA advises that the rate of administration for Tauramox Injectable is 1 mL for each 110 lb (50 kg) body weight to provide 0.2 mg moxidectin/2.2 lb (0.2 mg/kg) body weight. Tauramox will now be available over the counter and supplied in a 10 mg/ml concentration in 250 and 500 mL bottles.

When administered at the correct dosage, Tauramox is effective at treating and controlling the following parasites in cattle: Gastrointestinal Roundworms Lungworms, Cattle Grubs Mites, Lice.

2023 Prca

Executive Council election results announced

The results of the 2023 Executive Council Elections are as follows.

Rodeo Committee $10,000.01$20,000 – Dave Marshall*

Rodeo Committee $20,000.01$50,000 – Bryant Nelson **

Contract Personnel Specialty Acts/Labor – Josh Edwards*

Contract Personnel Secretary/ Timers – Sunni Deb Backstrom*

Bareback Contestant

Representative –Caleb Bennett*

Bull Riding Contestant

Representative –Cody Rostockyj*

Tie-Down Contestant

Representative –Shane Hanchey*

Team Roping Contestant

Representative –Kaleb Driggers**

Stock Contractor (3 open positions) – David Morehead, Jerry Dorenkamp, Steve Sutton*

General Membership

Representative to the Competition CommitteeJohn Franzen*

Contract Personnel At Largeended in a tie between Cindy Rosser and Mike Mathis.

A Runoff election will take place Monday, April 3 through Wednesday, April 5.

BLM awards more than $4.7 million for wild horse and burro training and adoption programs

March 27, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Land Management has awarded two grants totaling more than $4.7 million to accelerate the training and placement of excess wild horses and burros into private care. These grants are part of the BLM’s efforts to increase adoptions of wild horses and burros, protect wild herds and their habitat on public lands, and save taxpayers money. The grants were awarded to the Round Rock, Texas-based Mustang Heritage Foundation and Austin, Texas-based Mustang Champions.

Together, the grants have the potential to help facilitate placement of approximately 3,600 wild horses and burros into private care over the next year, saving taxpayers approximately $99 million over the lifetime of the animals. It costs BLM about $27,500, on average, to provide life-time care for a wild horse not placed into private care.

Proposed $1.7 Billion Budget for BLM

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2024. The budget includes $1.7 billion for the Bureau of Land Management to promote its multiple use and sustained yield mandate and strengthen the Administration’s commitment to address the climate crisis; accelerate responsible development of renewable energy on public lands; create family-supporting union jobs; strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion partnerships; and implement once-in-a-generation investments from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

“This budget proposal will put people to work restoring our public lands, deliver the clean energy necessary to tackle a changing climate, and build a more robust, diverse agency,” said BLM Director Tracy StoneManning. “It’s a significant investment in the President’s agenda to address the climate crisis, restore balance on public lands and waters, promote a clean energy future, and create goodpaying jobs.”