Fred Fisher's Light Rein Horses Blog

A lot going on!

This week has been busy! Shuttling horses to the barn in Gilbert to ride and get cleaned up for this weekend...organizing a bunch of the Light Rein clients for Sunday. We're having a fun show! Thanks to Glenda for hosting our fun day on Sunday!

It's going to be great for everyone to get into their show clothes and do their best riding over at Robert's Ranch.

Hope to have some pictures and stories for all of you next week!

AQHA Announces Novice Championships

This is very exciting news! AQHA has announced that there will be two Novice Championship Shows in 2012.

"To qualify for the Novice championship shows, competitors will go through national or state qualifying. The AQHA Western Novice Championship Show will be held October 5-7, 2012, at the South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and the AQHA Eastern Novice Championship Show is October 5-7, 2012, at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Two national invitation opportunities exist for competitors. Those include a top-10 placing at anAQHA regional championship show in a Novice class or to show to 20 AQHA judges throughout the year. For this latter option, competitors may show to judges around the nation – there is no regional preference or requirement. The national qualifying period for the Novice championship shows is May 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012."

Read more here:
http://www.aqha.com/en/Showing/News-Articles/102011-Novice-Championships.aspx

This is such a great thing for AQHA to offer for our Novice riders! Hopefully we will have several riding in Las Vegas!

 

All American Quarter Horse Congress

The All American Quarter Horse Congress is a huge show with some really fun classes.

You probably have seen the bridle-less reining run that Stacy Westfall did to "Titanic." There were others in that freestyle class:

This one is done with a Dressage theme (with a bridle):

http://youtu.be/x48eBInUO8Y

This one is the Non-Pro Reining Champion (Bridle-less AND Bareback)

http://youtu.be/aSV1FzRv3DE

Here's one more you might enjoy:

This is VS Code Red- the Jr. Western Riding Champion, shown by Charlie Cole.

http://youtu.be/5iQn035mJUg

Have fun watching these videos and keep working on your skills!

Do you need clipper blades?

Just saw that Schneider's is having a BOGO on clipper blades. If you are in need, now is the time to buy!

Here's the link:

http://www.sstack.com/Horse-Care_ClippersAccessories_Clipper-Blades/Oster-Cryotech-A5-Blades/?utm_source=IPOST&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_term=OSTER&utm_content=BLADES&utm_campaign=WEB01010EM162

It's for the Oster® X-AG Cryogen A5 Blades.

It's almost time to start clipping those FUZZY horses!

Yes, even in Arizona our horses get FUZZY.