24/ MARCH/APRIL 2011 THE RIDER Canadian-bred


Apache Blue Boy Wins 5th AQHA World Championship


(February 16, 2011 - Carberry, MB) — Apache Blue Boy, a Canadian- bred American Quarter Horse, recently earned his fifth World Cham- pionship honours at the annual American Quarter Horse Association’s World Championship Show held November 6-20, 2010 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,


The 1995 grey Quarter Horse stallion won his first AQHA World Championship title in 2003, in Amateur Heeling, ridden by Mike Row, and is owned by Mike’s father, John Row of Tishomingo, Oklahoma. When he’s not competing, Apache Blue Boy performs the time-hon- oured traditions of tending cattle and breeding mares at the R & S Cat- tle Ranch owned by John and Mike Row.


“This year (2010) Apache Blue Boy won his fifth world title while not at his very best,” his exhibitor, Mike Row said, “I’m just grateful he made it there, because he almost died on us about two weeks before the show. He got an infection in his colon and was at the vet’s for four days, so we didn’t get to practice on him, but one day before the preliminaries. That just shows how great he really is!” Row and Apache Blue Boy worked first in the draw on Novem- ber 10 in Amateur Heading with AQHA Professional Horseman Steve Orth, the horse’s long time trainer, heeling for them. “We drew a good steer”, Mike said, “He (the steer) didn’t run as hard as some of them


Apache Blue Boy with amateur exhibitor, Mike Row aboard


(2010 photo courtesy AQHA)


did. I just tried to catch him and Steve cleaned it up. Steve always does for me. I’m not worried about his end. He was good.”


Apache Blue Boy’s five AQHA World Champion titles, two in Amateur Heading and three in Amateur Heeling only scratch the surface of his multiple top ten finishes at the World Show and year-end top ten finishes in heading and heeling. Apache Blue Boy has earned more than $76,000 from a total of 50 AQHA class entries.


Apache Blue Boy is sired by Blue Boy Doc, by Doc’s Prescription and his dam was Apache King Miss, by Boston Apache. Greg Frick of Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Canada, bred Apache Blue Boy. Frick has been breeding and raising Quarter Horses at Sabre Quarter Horse Ranch since 1971. Frick said, “Apache Blue Boy is our most outstanding product to date. We are very proud of his five World Championships and other outstand- ing successes at AQHA World Shows. It has generated a lot of new calls enquiring about our horses.”


The mandate of the CQHA, a nation- al affiliate of the AQHA, is to address issues of concern to Canadian owners of American Quarter Horses; to be a com- munications vehicle for and with Canadi- an owners of American Quarter Horses; and to promote and market, both globally and within Canada, Canadian-bred and/or Canadian-owned American Quarter Hors- es.


The Canadian Quarter Horse Associ- ation is an Affiliate of the AQHA. Annual membership is FREE to current AQHA members. For more information, or to enroll as a member on-line, visit the CQHA website


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Through AQHA Affiliate Grants, MBNA Canada supports grassroots pro- grams in Canada that directly benefit AQHA members. Each year, AQHA Affiliates receive funding to enhance or develop services for shows, races, youth activities, educational programs, public policy and recreational riding. Financial support from MBNA Canada benefits vir- tually every member program offered by AQHA.


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