Check out the complete 2012 schedule

As frequent competitors and spectators at horse shows across the country, we understand the sacrifices in both time and money that are involved with showing horses.  Shows should be fun and rewarding.  Our vision is to provide outstanding customer service and to award significant prizes, incentives, and awards to the competitors at our shows.  When you show with us, you’ll not only have a great time and earn breed association points, but you’ll also have the opportunity to win wonderful prizes, enjoy a tasty dinner with friends, participate in fun activities, and maybe even win one of the many prizes distributed to random competitors in each class.  And don’t forget about our incredible year-end prizes!

We want your feedback.  As we grow our show circuit, it’s important to us that we keep in touch with what our clients want.  Is there a way you think we can improve upon our service or show format?  What sort of prizes would you like to see at the weekend shows?  We want to hear from you, so please give us a call or send us an email.

We look forward to having you with us this year!

Sincerely,

Sydney Miller and Michele Wilhelm
Rock Star Horse Shows

Clinic for Reining and Western Horsemanship, Saturday January 28 in Catlett, VA with Mike Jennings and Daniel Hoerauf.

How the basics of Reining help all disciplines and Tune Up for the Show Season.
Mounted Fee:  $85. Audit Fee: $10 FREE: 4-H Members and Children 12 and under.

BW Farm – 11032 Brent Town Road, Catlett, Virginia 20119
9:00 AM – Registration opens
10:00 AM- Demonstration Begins

Contact Mike Jennings Mike@professionalauction.com Or Daniel Hoerauf novareiner@gmail.com

Franklin W. Bierman, 78 of Glasgow, VA passed away Friday, January 13, 2012 at his home. Frank was born June 16, 1933 in York, PA. He was the son of the late Frederick H. and Fairy K. Bierman. Frank was a graduate of William Penn High School in York, PA. He worked in sales at Eugene Jacobs, Gregory”s and Lehymer’s clothing stores. In the 1960’s he moved to Roanoke, VA where he was employed by Davidson’s Men’s Clothing Stores to handle advertising and sales promotions where he worked for 17 years. Because of his interest in horses he accepted the position of a fund-raiser and later became Director of Operations of the Virginia Horse Center in Rockbridge County Virginia. He was a member of Rockbridge Hunt where he was appointed joint field master. He was an avid supporter of the United States Pony Club and was instrumental in bringing the USPC National Championship to the Virginia Horse Center. Frank is survived by a brother Frederick Bierman and his wife Gretchen, their daughter Susan Gordon and her son Robert and his family along with two cousins Susan Foose and Kitty Kurtz.

A Graveside service will be announced for a later date, at the connivance of Frank’s family in Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, PA. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rockbridge Hospice, 315 Myers Street, Lexington, VA 24450 or The US Pony Club, 4041 Iron Works Parkway, Lexington, KY 40511.
Arrangements Oakey’s North Chapel who invite you to address on-line condolences to www.oakeys.com.

AMATEUR REGISTERED QUARTER HORSE
Champion-Cory Balsis- 373.5 hours
Res. Champion-Jeff Sheffer-335.5 hours
3rd-Kristy Drew-Pruit-240.5 hours
4th-Carol Villagran-188.5 hours
5th-Jean Voss-174 hours
6th-Nancy Sheffer-143.5 hours
7th-Carl Miles, Jr.-25 hours

14-18 YOUTH REGISTERED QUARTER HORSE
Champion-Katy Sheridan-294 hours
Res. Champion-Maggie Lanham-292 hours
3rd-Amanda Bennett-286.75 hours
4th-Josie Morris-136.75 hours

AMATEUR ALL-BREED
Champion-Betty Mayo-342 hours
Res. Champion-Pam Black-199 hours
3rd-Dana Morris-177.5 hours
4th-Joanne Owings-157 hours

OPEN ALL-BREED
Champion-David Lamb-1193 hours
Cathette Plumer-66.5 hours

13 & Under All-Breed
Champion-Alyssa Williams-383.5 hours

VQHA Queen Courtney Sturgill on the cover of the January 2012 Virginia Horse Journal

Our own VQHA Queen and 2011 All-American Quarter Horse Congress Queen is on the cover of the January 2012 edition.
We think it’s the best cover ever.

Here’s a link to the magazine online: http://virginiahorse.epubxpress.com/

Please save the date and keep an eye on your mailboxes. If you don’t get an invite soon, let us know.
We’ll be following up with details here and via email in the coming weeks.

Forms now available on website: http://myvqha.com/2010-vqha-calendar-of-events/

Click headline for link

Link to Open Show Points

(1) Open Division
(Green classes do not count in the calculations in the Open Division)

Open All Around Champion Horse:
Jennifer Larsen & Living Proof By Chip: 249 points
Halter Performance Geldings: 35
All Age Western Riding: 24
All Age Trail: 136
Senior Western Pleasure: 54

Open All Around Reserve Horse:
Carolyn Merritt & Leavinem Speechless: 148 points
Halter Performance Geldings: 34
Senior Hunter Under Saddle: 35
All Age Working Hunter: 18
All Age Hunter Hack: 43
Jumping: 18

Open High Point Performance Champion Horse:
Jennifer Larsen & Living Proof By Chip: 214
All Age Western Riding: 24
All Age Trail: 136
Senior Western Pleasure: 54

Open High Point Performance Reserve Horse –
three horses/riders to share this reserve award:

(1) Carolyn Merritt & Leavinem Speechless: 114
Senior HUS: 35
All Age Working Hunter: 18
All Age Hunter Hack: 43
Jumping: 18

(2) Cecilia Hylton & Custom Blue Skys: 114
All Age Western Riding: 22
All Age Working Hunter: 28
Progressive Working Hunter: 12
All Age Hunter Hack: 37
Jumping: 15

(3) RCS, Inc. (Lubeshkoff Family) & Skys Code Blue: 114
All Age Western Riding: 28
All Age Trail: 27
Senior Western Pleasure: 8
Senior HUS: 51

Open High Point Halter Champion Horse:
Cecilia Hylton & I Can Only Imagine: 147
(from the Halter Performance Gelding class)

Open High Point Halter Reserve Horse:
Samantha Gonzales & His Chips Available: 78
(from the Halter Performance Gelding class)

(2) Amateur Division

Amateur All Around Champion:
Samantha Gonzales & His Chips Available: 567 points
Am Halter Performance Gelding: 102
Am Showmanship: 179
Am Trail: 120
Am Horsemanship: 86
Am Western Pleasure: 7
Am HUS: 23
Am Hunt Seat Equitation: 50

Amateur All Around Reserve: 
Corrine Balsis & My Sleepy Bay: 405
Am Halter Aged Gelding: 17
Am Halter Performance Gelding: 13
Am Showmanship: 24
Select Am Showmanship: 45
Am Trail: 30
Select Am Trail: 31
Am Horsemanship: 17
Select Am Horsemanship: 31
Select Am HUS: 99
Am Hunt Seat Eq: 20
Select Am Hunt Seat Eq: 78

Amateur High Point Performance Champion:
Samantha Gonzales & His Chips Available: 465
Am Showmanship: 179
Am Trail: 120
Am Horsemanship: 86
Am WP: 7
Am HUS: 23
Am HSE: 50

Amateur High Point Performance Reserve: 
Corrine Balsis & My Sleepy Bay: 375
Am Showmanship: 24
Select Am Showmanship: 45
Am Trail: 30
Select Am Trail: 31
Am Horsemanship: 17
Select Am Horsemanship: 31
Select Am HUS: 99
Am HSE: 20
Select Am HSE: 78

Amateur High Point Halter Champion:
Cecilia Hylton & I Can Only Imagine: 111
(from the Am Performance Gelding class)

Amateur High Point Halter Reserve:
Samantha Gonzales & His Chips Available: 102
(from the Am Performance Gelding class)
(3) Novice Amateur Division

Novice Amateur High Point Performance Champion:
Emily Murphy & Priss N Bird: 170
Novice Amateur Showmanship: 60
NA Trail: 50
NA Horsemanship: 56
NA Western Pleasure: 2
NA Hunt Seat Equitation: 2

Novice Amateur High Point Performance Reserve: 
Traci Degroat & Justa Daydreamer: 125
NA HUS: 85
NA HSE: 40

Novice Amateur Rookie of the Year:
Pending
(4) Youth Division

13 & Under Youth All Around Champion and Reserve:
None qualified

13 & Under Youth High Point Performance Champion:
Bailey Troutman & Art I Nice: 142
13 & Under Showmanship: 46
13 & Under HUS: 68
13 & Under Hunt Seat Equitation: 28

13 & Under Youth High Point Performance Reserve:
None qualified

14-18 Youth All Around Champion:
Kira Lubeshkoff & Skys Code Blue: 383
Youth Perfomance Halter Mares: 13
14-18 Showmanship: 17
Youth Western Riding: 9
Youth Trail: 67
14-18 Horsemanship: 45
14-18 Western Pleasure: 24
14-18 HUS: 135
14-18 Hunt Seat Equitation: 73

14-18 Youth All Around Reserve:
Amanda Bennett & Lizzys Gold Boy: 222
Youth 3 & Over Halter Geldings: 11
Youth Performance Halter Geldings: 41
14-18 Showmanship: 66
Youth Trail: 37
14-18 Horsemanship: 47
14-18 Western Pleasure: 20

For 2011, there will be no 14-18 Youth High Point Performance Champion and Reserve awards 
because two 14-18 Youths (Kira Lubeshkoff and Amanda Bennett) qualified for All Around awards.

Youth High Point Halter Champion: 
Olivia Allison & RSVP Me Please: 110
(from the Youth 3 & Over Halter Gelding class)

Youth High Point Halter Reserve: 
Matthew Nash & Mister Exclusive: 87
(from the Youth 3 & Over Halter Gelding class)

(5) Novice Youth

Novice Youth High Point Performance Champion:
Amanda Bennett & Lizzys Gold Boy: 377
NY Showmanship: 118
NY Horsemanship: 75
NY Western Pleasure: 111
NY Trail: 73

Novice Youth High Point Performance Reserve:
Olivia Allison & RSVP Me Please: 376
NY Showmanship: 135
NY Horsemanship: 41
NY Western Pleasure: 104
NY HUS: 45
NY Hunt Seat Equitation: 47
NY Trail: 4

(6) Racing Division: 

none reported