Horse Flashy Coat Contest

APHA sponsored contest through Horse Illustrated to show off your horse's flashy coat colors.  It is open for all breeds.  Some horses entered will be featured in Horse Illustrated.  To learn more about entering visit: http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-contests/apha-show-us-your-colors.aspx.

The prize pack includes

• An APHA visor
• Paint Horse coffee table book
• APHA poster 

There are also a few different categories: loudest over all coat pattern, most unique marking and look alike markings.  

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

We are scheduled to have a blizzard tonight and Christmas Day.  So much for Christmas traveling!

Hope everyone has nicer weather than we do!

~Olson Quarter Horses

Appaloosa Membership Deal

Today is the last chance to purchase or renew your Appaloosa Horse Club membership to be eligible for the $10,000 in Member Rewards drawings. 

*memo is from the Appaloosa Horse Club*

Find some great deals on your favorite magazines

On Amazon.com Horse and Rider it cost $15.95.

Horse Illustrated is only $10 on there right now!  Or 2 years for $18, that is a pretty good deal.  I get my Horse Illustrated for free though for participating online on Horse Channel's Horse Club.  Anyone can, and it is kind of fun.  Here is a link to Horse Club.  Or you can go directly to Horse Illustrated and buy it for that price, by clicking here.  If you buy it from Horse Illustrated, you get a free year round horse care, downloadable e-book.

Young Rider is at $20 for a 2 year subscription or $12 for a one year.

APHA 2009 World Show

The American Paint Horse Association World Show was on Nov 5th - 14th.

For more information check out: http://www.aphaworldshow.com/fall/index.aspx/

Links For APHA World Show
Premium Books and Forms
Qualified To Compete PDF
Class Results
Class Listing
Exhibitor Search
Horse Search
Show Schedule
World Show News
Cash and Prizes

More Information

AQHA Has a New Registration Certificate

AQHA just came out with a new registration certificate that they started to use durring the world show.  It is really nice looking.  They said the image they were looking for was something worthy of framing on the wall.  It is landscape oriented, with a larger pedigree and identification photos on the back rather than front. 

All horses from now on will be issued this certificate or if you transfer ect.  Owners may also order this new certificate to replace their old one for $10. 

For more information, and to see the new certificate go to http://www.aqha.com/news/2009PressReleases/11092009_newregcertificate.html

This is exciting news for all those AQHA fans out there who were not happy with AQHA's last design.

National Barrel Horse Association Wolrd Championships

It was going on October 26-31 in Augusta, Georgia. 

The youth World Show was durring July in Mississippi.

Approximately $350,000 was paid out in prize money.

For those who do not know the National Barrel Horse Association has a 4D format.

For more information go to the NBHA's site.

*Photo From NBHA.com*

NCHA World Finals Show

The National Cutting Horse Association World Finals Show

November 24-25 and  27-28, 2009

The show is held in the Will Rogers Complex - Watt Arena - Fort Worth, Texas

There will be live webcasting of the show, go to NCHA World Show Page for more information.

NCHA World Championship Futurity--Watch Live

National Cutting Horse Association World Championship Futurity

To Watch Live go to
http://www.horseshowwebcasts.com/shows/2009/25206/client.html

Dates: November 21 - December 13, 2009

Location: Will Rogers Coliseum - Ft. Worth, Texas

More Information and Show Schedule: NCHA Futurity Page

Pinto Congress Show

The Pinto Congress Show will take place November 4th-8th at the build Ford Tough Livestock complex in Tulsa, Okla.

For more information check out: http://www.pintocongress.com/

APHA World Show 2009

The American Paint Horse Association World Show is comming up this fall from Nov 5th - 14th.

For more information check out: http://www.aphaworldshow.com/fall/index.aspx/

Horse Channel's Club Horse: Earn free magazines and other horsey supplies

Horse Channel has a Club Horse program which you can put a profile up on their website for your horse and for each thing you do, ie write on someone's horse's wall, vote for your favorite horse, ex cetera...you earn points.  Those points can be used to redeem products such as 1 year subscriptions to Horse Illustrated, Young Rider, and other supplies.

For a full list of prizes click here. 

Its a great program and lots of fun, check it out and earn your free stuff!  It does not take much work and you meet other horse lovers along the way.

Of course Horsechannel is part of petchannel.com...so there are pages for all your pets, ie Dog Channel, Cat Channel....

Which side to get on and off?

Here is a cute mounting riddle I found and thought I would share.

      "The left side is the right side and the right side is the wrong side"

- Old saying about where to mount and dismount

Business Card

 Here is the prototype for our new business card.

Worried about the enviroment and the cost of transport?

Try the ride share program:

Club Equestrian allows people to post if they have room in their trailer on a trip or allow you to contact people with room, great if you do not have a trailer of your own!

Learn more at http://www.clubequestrian.com/tools/ridshare

*I found this great update in Horse Illustrated*

AQHA Registration Discount

AQHA is currently offering a registration discount on older horses to max our at $300, that is a huge savings considering a horse 4 years or older normally costs $1000!

APHA is offering a similar thing as well, which has been in effect since last year. Their discount is max of $100 for colored horses and $50 for breeding stock.

Tips for selling horses.

I found this on ultimatehorsesite.com and it makes a really good point.

It talks about what you need to do to sell not only horses but other sevices on your farm/ranch. It is important to know who your audience is.

Here is the link http://www.ultimatehorsesite.com/articles/blazerd_sellperception.html

Enjoy, and good luck selling!

Upcomming Event

The Minnesota State Horse Show is this weekend at the MN State Fair ground (starts on the 18th), then the following weekend is the CMHIA Champ show.

Good Luck to all participants!

SI and ROM

The Speed Index, the measure of a horse's speed used on the race track which was used to replace the letter system (AAA ect.)

Now for today's AQHA a speed index of 80 is required to earn an ROM in racing.

Americas Horse Daily put out a great PDF on how speed index is calculated and how it relates to the older letter sysem, click here to learn more.

Reminder

Make sure to balance your horses phosphorus and calcium in his diet. Remember that any type of grain tends to be high in phosphorus and alfalfa hay contains higher levels of calcium, so many people seek to balance that by feeding the two together.