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The North Central Working Western Celebration Show is not simply a brand new horse show making its debut appearance at the Simon Arena in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, June 20th through the 23rd, it’s a brand new concept as well! Show manager Sandy Woerle, who conceived and organized this celebration of the Working Western horse, calls it a “Perfect Storm.”

The Varian Arabians’ Summer Jubilee, held annually in August at the ranch in Arroyo Grande is a summer highpoint for horsemen attending from all over the United States, Canada and Mexico. Equal parts seminars, sale horses and stallion presentations, gathering and entertainment, the Varian Experience is unique in the horse industry.

North American Arabian Regionals take their cue from the Region 7 Championship Show, always the first regional of the show season. Held annually at the WestWorld Show Facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, this year’s Regionals will kick off with the ASHO4U pre-show on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 24th and 25th, immediately followed by the Region 7 Championships held Thursday through Sunday, April 25th through the 28th. One of the larger Arabian Regional shows, Region 7 frequently attracts between six and seven hundred horses.

Going from a child’s Arabian horse to a world class stallion station in a handful of years is rather like starting out from your house in a Chevy pick-up and finding yourself in a Ferrari doing seventy by the time you hit the end of the block. It invariably takes years for breeding programs to grow, develop and mature. How does a story like this begin and, perhaps more importantly, how does it succeed?

The Region 9 AHA Championship Horse Show will be May 28th through June 2nd, 2013 at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Download your prize list now!

“While in Tulsa for the 2012 U.S. National Championship show I found out about the Little Light House charity,” says Mary Trowbridge of the Arabian Horsemen’s Distress Fund. “As Arabian horsemen we’ve been talking forever about outreach beyond our breed and about making the Arabian horse more visible to the public.

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It was a real vote for feminine energy, the election of two women: Cynthia Richardson and Nancy Harvey, as President and Vice President of the Arabian Horse Association. The news hit the Arabian horse “grapevine” late Saturday, November 17th at the close of the annual AHA Convention, held this year in south Denver at the Marriott Hotel in the Denver Tech Center.

At this year's U.S. National Championships the Arabian Horse Times played host to several positive forums covering many topics important to owners, breeders and trainers alike. Arabian Horse Times, Arabian Horse Global and Classic Video are proud to offer these hot topics for you to enjoy and to get your feedback as well. We invite you to view each forum and complete the survey afterwards. Here is the first in a series of three forums.

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