OQHA News

OAQHA Press Release: The Buckeye Classic will become Two Separate Shows for 2019: “The Little Buckeye & YEDA Classic” and the “BWHA Classic” The Little Buckeye and The Buckeye Classic shows, known together as “The Buckeye” were created by a partnership of the BWHA (Buckeye Western Horse Association) and OAQHA (Ohio Amateur Quarter Horse Association). Since 2013, The Buckeye has awarded more than $300,000 in free youth and amateur entries thanks to the generosity of show sponsors. And, The Little Buckeye earned its spot on AQHA’s Top 10 show list for two years. The combined show was known for being fun - especially for brightening the faces of lead-liners as they took away huge giraffes, hippos or zebras.

Name: Millie Landon Age: 16 Where do you live and with who? I just moved to Pilot Point, Texas where I live with my mom, Tara, and my stepdad, Doug. How did you get involved in horses? My mother used to train horses, so I have grown up in AQHA since I was born. What discipline(s)/class(es) do you show in and why did you choose that discipline or class(es)? I show in the horsemanship, western pleasure, showmanship, and halter.  I have shown horses that had done the pleasure and had been started in horsemanship and showing those classes makes me feel confident walking into the show pen. What would be possible for you to give up? (something that is not horse related) Something that I could never give up is my family because they

Congratulations to Sam Flarida on winning the Youth Futurity and the Level 1 Non Pro Futurity with a score of 220 on Hollywooddirtysecret at the NRHA Futurity. They were also  the Level 2 reserve champions, placed third in the Level 3 & 5th in the Level 4. Sam & "Big Mac" won over $58,000!

Name: Courtney Hilty Where do you live and with who? I live in Huber Heights, Ohio and I live with my sister Natalie and my parents, Tim and Gretchen Hilty. Walnut Hills Farm is also the home of our three dogs Bridget, Bandit, and KateSpade as well as our six horses and six chickens. How did you get involved in horses? I became involved with horses when I was eight years old. We took lessons at the Sullenberger farm in Piqua, Ohio. We started in 4-H at the Miami county fair and later became AQHA members in 2014. Soon after we joined IEA and eventually YEDA. We also joined a rodeo drill team called Midwest Express that later became Silver Lining Drill Team. We now show at the Clark County fair and show with Piper Performance Horses.

Youth from state and regional Quarter Horse associations across the U.S. and Canada gathered for the largest National Youth Team Tournament in the world at the All American Quarter Horse Congress Sunday, October 21. This year’s National Youth Activity Team Tournament (NYATT) hosted more than 60 teams and offered a new division of competition. Division I is a team entered in eight to fourteen NYATT classes while Division II teams are entered in one to seven NYATT classes. This split is only for the awards ceremony so that each division competes for separate top ten division awards. Each team may consist of four to fourteen riders, with no more than two members competing in each of the seven NYATT classes: Barrel

The  2018 Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show kicks off today, August 2 through August 11 in Oklahoma City. Check out all the action from the schedule , results, patterns, working orders and score sheets ,  to watching the Ohio youth live on the Ford Live Stream .  Follow our  Ohio youth on Facebook as well.     Congratulations to all the Ohio Quarter Horse Association members at the AQHYA World Championship Show! Congratulations to Maggie Carter and COOS ME IN THE DARK - 2018 AQHYA WORLD CHAMPION Level 3 Aged Geldings!   Congratulations to Colton Smith and PF CHROME RIMZ placing 7th in Level 3 Aged Geldings!  Congratulations to Abby Querry and IMMA BE A COWBOY placing 10th in Level 2 Aged Geldings and being

Ohio Quarter Horse is proud to announce the 2018 Congress NYATT Team Showmanship Ellexxah Maxwell & Matthew Siefker Barrels Reagan Priest & Maggie Cain Reining McKenna Ivey & Isabella Tesmer Hunter Under Saddle Olivia Tordoff & Abby Querry Hunt Seat Equitation Lauren Carnahan & Claire Hickman Western Pleasure Kylee Wiseman & Sydney Krebs Horsemanship Lauren Harvey & Cora Wyers

The 2018 Ford Youth World Show stall assignments are posted at  www.oqha.com/youth-world-show-team .

Congratulations to everyone on the #BestBuckeyeYet Buckeye Classic Results Buckeye Classic Circuit Awards NSBA Results Little Buckeye Results The Little Buckeye and Buckeye Classic finished up strong on July 22 nd  with close to 14,000 entries showing at the beautiful World Equestrian Center in Wilmington, Ohio hosted by the Ohio Amateur Quarter Horse Association and The Buckeye Western Horse Association. The two circuits running for ten days offered free youth entries for the Little Buckeye and free amateur entries for the Buckeye Classic, free water, snacks and dozens upon dozens of free Buckeye Classic ice cream sandwiches handed out by The Equine Chronicle Golf Cart and Hospitality Tent. The Leadline