APHA World Show
More than $1 million in cash & prizes to Paint Horse exhibitors at 2019 APHA World Show Jessica Rumbaugh &
Amateur, HP Open Ranch Horse, HP Amateur Ranch Horse, HP Western Performance Horse, Super Gelding
Paint Horse exhibitors pocketed a record $1 million+ in cash and prizes at the 2019
World Championship Show, which was held September 16-29 at Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. More than 1,030 horses were on display generating over 15,600 entries. APHA named
211 world champions over the course of 14 days and held a total of 268 classes. Fifty U.S. states were represented as well as Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Paraguay and Sweden. The show saw an increase in several key areas over the 2018 Open/Amateur World
Show including Amateur Solid Paint-Bred Halter (up 16%), Solid Paint-Bred Halter (up 16%), Solid Paint-Bred Performance (up 9%), Breeders’ Futurity classes (up 15%) and added-money classes (up 2%). The Breeders’ Trust Pleasure Stakes classes saw an impressive total payout of $84,250.
The Breeders’ Trust 2-Year-Old Hunter Under Saddle Stakes alone paid over $39,000 with the winner taking home more than $10,000. The Breeders’ Trust Pleasure Stakes consist of Western pleasure and hunter under saddle classes in two age categories each—2-year-olds and non-pro 3- and 4-year-olds. APHA welcomed ranch work competitors of all breeds to the Ranch Work Champion-
ships. The event drew 80 entries where exhibitors competed in three classes—ranch course, ranch penning and ranch roping—for $6,900 in prize money. This marked the first year mounted shooting world championships took place at the
World Show (previously held at external competitions) and it proved to be a good move. Entries more than tripled over last year. Exhibitors took home a combined $7,300 in this exciting competition.
Halter competition took a surge at the 2019 World Show. APHA once again partnered
with the World Conformation Horse Association (WCHA) to offer big money to halter en- thusiasts through two premier halter events: the APHA World Championship Show and the (all-breed) WCHA Breeder’s Championship and Big Money Futurities. All in all, more than $640,000 was up for grabs for halter horses—that included more than $165,000 in APHA Platinum Breeders’ Futurity classes (29% increase over 2018), over $47,000 in Gold Breed- ers’ Futurity payouts (34% increase over 2018), $20,000 in the Breeders Halter Futurity bonus payouts, $10,500 from the Lynn Simons Memorial Halter Futurity and $400,377 in the WCHA Breeder’s Championship and Big Money Futurities (22% increase over 2018). The WCHA events alone drew 862 entries. All in all, APHA show entries totaled 14,660 (2,932 x five judges) bringing the total entries for all combined events to 15,602.
In addition, the knowledge and skills of young judges were put to the test September
19 during the APHA HorseIQ World Championship Judging Contest, held in conjunction with the APHA World Show. Featuring both collegiate and youth (18&u) divisions, the con- test presented both team and individual awards in halter, performance, reasons and overall. Kansas State University took home the top spot in collegiate teams overall while Chouteau FFA captured the overall top youth team victory.
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