{"id":556,"date":"2006-08-08T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=556"},"modified":"2006-08-08T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T16:00:28","slug":"ride-america-participant-logs-3500-hours-in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/ride-america-participant-logs-3500-hours-in-the-saddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride America participant logs 3,500 hours in the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>FORT WORTH, TEXAS<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Jessica Asay from Toms River, NJ, has recently received the 3,500 hour award in the American Paint Horse Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (APHA) Ride America\u00c2\u00ae program. Her partner on the trails is How Dee Sensation, a 12-year-old chestnut tobiano gelding, better known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Callahan.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For their accomplishments, Asay and Callahan receive a special commemorative patch from APHA, a special achievement certificate and one ton of horse feed from APHA sponsor Kent Feed.<\/p>\n<p>When Asay purchased Callahan 7 years ago, she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t truly know how wonderful he would be.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love everything about him. His personality is the greatest,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Asay.<br \/>\nThe pair ride 5 times a week throughout the state of New Jersey, including Allaire State Park, Colliers Mills Wildlife Refuge, Clayton Park and Assunpink Wildlife Management Area.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Allaire is my favorite because it is so beautiful and such a great ride,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Asay said.<\/p>\n<p>APHA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saddle-log program has given Asay and other APHA members the opportunity to ride or drive their favorite American Paint Horse at their own pace and to receive an official time log and a Ride America patch. They record each hour spent riding their American Paint Horse and as they move through 14 achievement levels\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom 100 to 10,000 hours\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAPHA records their accomplishments on the horse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance record and rewards the team with special patches. Depending on the number of hours ridden, participants also earn grooming products, headstalls and saddle pads.<\/p>\n<p>When Asay and Callahan are not on the trails, they are busy competing at local shows in both English and Western events and going team penning and sorting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMore about Ride America<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you are interested in becoming part of APHA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saddle-log program, call APHA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ride America coordinator at (817) 834-2742, ext. 249, or e-mail rideamerica@apha.com. You can also visit the Ride America Website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apha.com\/rideamerica\">apha.com\/rideamerica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH, TEXAS\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Jessica Asay from Toms River, NJ, has recently received the 3,500 hour award in the American Paint Horse Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (APHA) Ride America\u00c2\u00ae program. Her partner on the trails is How Dee Sensation, a 12-year-old chestnut tobiano gelding, better known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Callahan.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For their accomplishments, Asay and Callahan receive a special commemorative patch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apha","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}