Day: February 20, 2008

What happened to Tanner Time?

If you have ever used Tanner Time, you are surely one of the barrel racers out there asking why you never have Tanner Time at your barrel races anymore. If you have never used Tanner Time, you might be asking, “What Tanner Time is”? In 1998, Shane and Lanette Pritchard moved to Dallas Texas to work for New Micros, and Randy Dumse, inventor of the Tanner Time system, on the development of the system. In 1999 they moved back to Colorado to be closer to family and started a full time business timing large barrel races all

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AQHA PRESIDENT FRANK MERRILL NAMED TO USET FOUNDATION BOARD

America’s Horse, February 20, 2008 – On February 11, the United States Equestrian Team Foundation announced American Quarter Horse Association President Frank Merrill as one of its four new Board of Trustee members. The USET Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports the competition, training, coaching, travel and educational needs of America’s international, high-performance horses and athletes in partnership with the United States Equestrian Federation. The organization’s programs are developed in the seven international equestrian disciplines of dressage, eventing, show jumping, driving, endurance, reining and vaulting. The programs train and support top athletes and horses to compete

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Ride a horse, rope some fun at March 29 Paint Horse Kids Day

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Is your child interested in horses and the Western lifestyle? Then don’t miss the chance to let your buckaroo ride a horse and learn some cowboy skills. On Saturday, March 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the American Paint Horse Association (APHA) will be offering horseback rides at its free Kids Day, held at APHA headquarters, 2800 Meacham Blvd., in Fort Worth, Texas. In addition, children can experience many other hands-on activities, including instruction about grooming and caring for a horse, an animal petting area, a stick horse barrel race, beginner roping lessons and

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