{"id":6850,"date":"2016-01-12T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T03:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2016-04-15T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T19:22:52","slug":"apha-announces-elite-custom-saddles-as-its-official-performance-saddle-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/apha-announces-elite-custom-saddles-as-its-official-performance-saddle-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"APHA announces Elite Custom Saddles as its Official Performance Saddle Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 The American Paint Horse Association recently partnered with Elite Custom Saddles to provide exhibitors who excel in performance classes such as speed events, cattle and ranch horse classes with new award saddles. <\/p>\n

Beginning with the 2015 competition year, the Paint Barrel Racing Incentive Program (PBRIP) year-end divisional winners will each receive a custom Elite trophy saddle. Additionally, the Oscar Crigler Cattle Award winner and new Power Performance High-Point Amateur at the 2016 APHA World Championship Show and the Power Performance High-Point Youth at the 2016 AjPHA Youth World Championship Show will also each win an Elite saddle. Select APHA year-end high-point ranch horses (competing in all four ranch horse classes \u2013 Ranch Pleasure, Ranch Trail, Ranch Reining and Ranch Cow Work, and meeting minimum point requirements) will take home Elite saddles as well. More awards will be unveiled in the future including additional PBRIP special awards.<\/p>\n

Elite Custom Saddles is based out of Tioga, Texas, and is headed by APHA member and horse trainer Jon Carpenter. Jon\u2019s years of training and show experience in events like roping and working cow horse give him a practical advantage and working knowledge of the industry. Furthermore, Jon\u2014a proud 2015 Paint Youth Trust donor\u2014is passionate about APHA and its future.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family and I grew up in the horse industry, and my dad also had a saddle shop,\u201d Jon said. \u201cSaddles and horses are our passion. Every saddle we make at Elite is carefully designed to ensure our customers get the best possible product. Our saddle makers have more than 55 combined years of experience building Western saddles. We enjoy being able to personalize each saddle to our customers\u2019 unique needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

APHA Executive Director Billy Smith is especially excited about the partnership, as it provides additional awards to the ever-growing speed, pattern and ranch horse classes. <\/p>\n

\u201cParticipation in PBRIP, ranch horse classes are at an all-time high. We saw a significant increase in entries for these classes at our 2015 World Show over the previous year, which demonstrates our members\u2019 enthusiasm for these events,\u201d Billy said. \u201cThis new partnership with Elite will allow us to better recognize and reward exhibitors in these growing disciplines and hopefully generate even more growth in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elite builds custom saddles for all Western disciplines; its base saddle model includes No. 1 American tanned leather, wooden stirrups, three-quarter floral tooling, silver conchos, silver D rings and the customer\u2019s choice of light, golden, medium or dark oil. For more information, visit elitecustomsaddles.com.<\/p>\n

Interested in winning your own Elite saddle? Contact the APHA Performance Department for more information about its PBRIP, ranch and speed horse programs by visiting apha.com, emailing showing@apha.com or calling (817) 222-8455. <\/p>\n

About APHA
\nThe American Paint Horse Association is the world\u2019s second-largest international equine breed association, registering more than a million horses in 59 nations and territories since it was founded. APHA creates and maintains programs that increase the value of American Paint Horses and enriches members’ experiences with their horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FORT WORTH, Texas \u2013 The American Paint Horse Association recently partnered with Elite Custom Saddles to provide exhibitors who excel in performance classes such as speed events, cattle and ranch horse classes with new award saddles. Beginning with the 2015 competition year, the Paint Barrel Racing Incentive Program (PBRIP) year-end divisional winners will each receive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14],"tags":[134,142],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apha","category-industry","tag-apha","tag-the-american-paint-horse-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6852,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions\/6852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}