AQHA World Show special featured January 30.<\/p>\n
The American Quarter Horse Journal, January 26, 2009 \u2013 American Quarter Horse fans have another opportunity to watch the action from the 2008 American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show as the \u201cAQHA America\u2019s Horse Championships\u201d presented by Bank of America is featured on the Universal Sports Network. The show airs Friday, January 30, at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time\/Noon Pacific Standard Time. Available in 30 million homes, Universal Sports also will present encore episodes to be announced in February.<\/p>\n
This episode that originally aired on NBC Sports features exciting working cow horse action, which combines reining agility and the cow sense of the American Quarter Horse, testing a horse\u2019s skills in a way that is similar to ranch work. The event consists of two parts \u2013 reining or \u201cdry work\u201d and cow work or \u201cfence work.\u201d In the reining portion, the horse follows a predetermined pattern consisting of lead changes, spins and sliding stops. Then the action really picks up with the cow work. The horse matches wits with the cow \u2013 holding it at one end of the arena to show control and then driving the cow down the fence, turning it in both directions. Finally, the horse must move the cow to the center of the arena and circle it in each direction.<\/p>\n
Featured competitors include champions Todd Crawford of Blanchard, Oklahoma; Robbie Schroeder of Gainesville, Texas; Jimmie Paul of Phoenix, Arizona; Ron Emmons of Ione, California; and AQHA all-time leading breeder Carol Rose of Gainesville, Texas.<\/p>\n
Highlights from the reining and cutting events also will be featured along with an update about the World Equestrian Games featuring reining, which will be in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2010.<\/p>\n
The program is presented by Bank of America and includes NBC and Universal Sports on-air announcer Tim Ryan and NBC\u2019s reporter for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes Donna Brothers along with AQHA Professional Horseman Robbie Boyce of Jacksboro, Texas, as analyst.<\/p>\n
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