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The All American Quarter Horse Congress (AAQHC) is known as the largest single breed horse show in the world. [1] The annual event is held at the 360 acre Ohio Expo Center and State Fairgrounds in Columbus, Ohio, and is hosted by the Ohio Quarter Horse Association (OQHA). [2] The AAQHC has multiple events in a variety of disciplines.
Over the course of four weeks, 4,000-plus horses and more than half a million humans will trot through the Ohio Expo Center during the All American Quarter Horse Congress. Hosted by the Ohio ...
The largest of these events is held at the Quarter Horse Congress, [10] but similar events exist for other horse breeds such as the American Saddlebred, [11] Arabian, [3] and others. Performance futurities, often a type of breeders' futurity, often seen in sport horse disciplines open to all breeds. Horses are nominated and then compete in a ...
As a sire, or father, he was the first All American Futurity winner to sire an All American Futurity winner, and went on to sire three winners of that race, and nine Champion Quarter Running Horses. Ultimately, his ownership and breeding rights were split into 60 shares worth $500,000 each—a total of $30 million.
Each Labor Day, two-year-old horses run the richest quarter-horse race in the world at Ruidoso Downs. Here's a look at its 64-year history.
He has 24 national level wins on top of All American Quarter Horse Congress wins. [1] His progeny have nearly $950,000 in AQHA Incentive Fund earnings as well as over $1.6 million in NSBA futurity earnings. [1] His most well-known progeny is daughter American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame member Vital Signs Are Good. [2]
Also in 2006, Westfall was the All American Quarter Horse Congress Freestyle Champion, performing with her mare Roxy. [1] On March 14, 2008, Ellen DeGeneres interviewed Westfall on her program and welcomed both Westfall and Roxy to the studio. [ 3 ]
In 2013, he was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Hall of Fame, [2] and is a past president of the AQHA. He is an AQHA director at large, a director of the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA), a trustee of the United States Equine Foundation, and a director of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.