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The ApHC holds three nationally recognized horse shows every year: the National Appaloosa Show, the Youth World Championship Appaloosa Show and the World Championship Appaloosa Show. The National Appaloosa Show began in 1948 and was held in Lewiston, Idaho , and was moved across the country until a 15-year stay in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ...
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The Appaloosa Horse Club has 33,000 members as of 2010, [62] circulation of the Appaloosa Journal, which is included with most types of membership, was at 32,000 in 2008. [76] [77] The American Appaloosa Association was founded in 1983 by members opposed to the registration of plain-colored horses, as a result of the color rule controversy.
The association also promotes the standards set by one of the founders of the Appaloosa Horse Club, Claude Thompson, who, beginning in the 1930s, used Arabian blood in his Appaloosa breeding program and believed that Arabian blood was a crucial part of the Appaloosa genome. [3] An AraAppaloosa in hunt seat competition
A breed registry was founded in 1954, and within 15 years had registered 15,000 ponies. Today, the Pony of the Americas Club is one of the largest and most active youth-oriented horse breed registrie in the US. Although called ponies, POAs have the phenotype of a small horse, combining mainly Arabian and American Quarter Horse attributes.
The Nez Perce Horse is a spotted horse breed of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho. The Nez Perce Horse Registry (NPHR) program began in 1995 in Lapwai, Idaho and is based on cross-breeding the old-line Appaloosa horses (the Wallowa herd) with an ancient Central Asian breed called Akhal-Teke .
The American Indian Horse is defined by its breed registry as a horse that may carry the ancestry of the Spanish Barb, Arabian, Mustang, or "Foundation" Appaloosa. [1] It is the descendant of horses originally brought to the Americas by the Spanish and obtained by Native American people. [ 2 ]
It is one of five game classes approved for horse club shows by the Appaloosa Horse Club. [13] The ApHC rules state that racing competition is traditional to the Nez Perce Native American people. [12] However, it is unclear if this particular competition is derived from any traditional competition.