Recent content by drivinghoss

I find it very interesting that this is seen as a savior to AMHA's financial problems. First of all, only 10% of the AMHA members show their horses. (that was told to me by a director) How sad this is because many members do not go see the best of best at our shows. Furthermore there are lots...

It is great that this issue is out there for all to see. There needs to be more transparency in the decisions and actions taken by the board. I am sure there have been other issues that were taken care of with out all the members knowing the issues or outcomes. If this issue is addressed...

Does anyone know who the judges are for the 2012 Congress and AMHR Nationals???

Shoeing of any breed of horse is an art-form. The ponies that are shod have the best care of any horse and every trainer that is having horses shod is doing what he or she thinks is best for the horse. All the horses at Congress that wore shoes were in compliance with the rules of the...

. PROPOSED ASPC/AMHR RULE CHANGE Section V Part 6 PG 102 Add or Delete: Add 13 ADD: A: After horse/pony has been set up for measuring by the handler, said handler may not touch the horse, i.e. stretching or pulling the head upward and/or up and forward, moving the feet once set, touching...

Totally agree with the barns needing to be quiet at night. And it would be nice if the lights were shut off so the horses could sleep....my horse has slept a lot since she got home.

I don't think we should change the qualifying for Nationals. However the schedule needs to be redone as the same classes every year need to be split. They could have the preliminaries and then the final at a different time. also why back the horses twice...if they backed in the preliminary...

Oh and the horses I thought that the western horses looked a lot better this year. My favorite horses were. the Grand champion mare of McCarthy's, Phantom Storm was awesome.

Here are my best and worst of this years Nationals. Best Number of horses ...this show gets bigger every year, every division is growing. Worst..Number of horses in some classes. Some of the driving classes needed to be split smaller...it was not fair for all competitors ..People pay a lot...

I was wondering if anyone from the East Coast will be going to that sale in Missouri in April. I was thinking of bidding on some horses and was not sure about transport.

The goal of most breeders in AMHR is to produce the best horse, with the best conformation. Some people, breeders, and judges prefer one body style over another. A miniature Quarter Horse is equal to a miniature Morgan is equal to a miniature Saddlebred, is equal to a miniature Arabian.

I guess I need to clarify my opinon. The quality of the miniature horse has improved greatly in the past ten years. I dont think we should change the standard for registration. I put the breed standards on here to show that other breeds find prominent withers desireable. I did not mean to...

You can donate the ribbons to a retirement home where they many times make items from them.

Many people will breed for a low withered horse istead of a horse that is high withered good conformation horse. Since you come from a pony background you would know that a nice prominent set of withers helps a horse to be able to move very well. Some who own Minis here on the East coast dont...

If we change the standard of registry we will be changing the conformation for the worst. We will reward breeders for producing conformationally incorrect horses. We can not allow the ulterior motives of a few individuals change a registry that has been successful for 40 years. We need to...