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AQHA Professional Horsemen Clinics
This is your opportunity to learn showing hints and tips from AQHA's top professional horsemen. We'll show you how to perform valuable routines to help you develop a better relationship with your horse in and out of the show arena. You'll also learn effective techniques to help you with your horse that are typically overlooked by countless owners.
Our in-depth AQHA Professional Horsemen clinics will completely cover a variety of disciplines. AQHA's team of Professional Horsemen will also be available to work with you and your American Quarter Horse in a variety of classes. Contact us today for your complete clinic schedule, and start making plans now to come with your horse.
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We wish to extend a heart felt thanks to May Edwards for organizing a great clinic schedule.
Mike and May Edwards Quarter Horses is a program designed to develop and prepare horses and riders for virtually all events. Experience, integrity and commitment serve as the cornerstone of our program and our goal is to educate and assist horses and riders in achieving their greatest potential.
Students have achieved Reserve Championships, Top 5s and Top 10s at the AQHA and AQHYA World Championship and Congress Shows in Western Pleasure, Western Horsemanship, Hunter Under Saddle, Hunt Seat Equitation, Showmanship, Trail, Western Riding, Working Cowhorse and Reining as well as All Around Awards at some of the largest circuits on the West Coast.
Our facility is situated on 8 acres in Monroe, Washington www.mikeandmayedwards.com
Chad Evans, Parker, Colorado,
July 20, 8-11 am - Preparing for your trail class
Lifetime with AQHA
Total years showing American Quarter Horses: 17
Total lifetime AQHA points: 3,132.5
Number of years with Team Wrangler: 1
Top Class: Trail
Chad Evans is a part of Team Wrangler, Team Extreme, from Parker, Colorado and has been involved with American Quarter Horses for twenty plus years. Growing up around quarter horses, Chad loved their disposition and athletic ability. He shows multiple horses throughout one show; however, he realizes each individual horse has their own talents and tries to maximize its potential. “It is rewarding to take a horse and help them become a fun horse for someone to show and compete,” said Evans.
Genny Miller - Showmanship savvy 2-3pm 
My Mission Statement:
- To develop great riders through basic and advanced horsemanship skills;
- To teach riders how to communicate properly and effectively with their horses;
- To train horses to carry their riders to whatever level the rider wants to be, whether that's a horse and rider team ready to compete at the local, regional, or national level;
- To emphasize the importance of a positive attitude of both horse and rider; and
- To emphasize that the horse and rider work with each other as a team - - and work together with other horse and rider teams.
- To pursue AQHA, NSBA, and ApHC judging cards
My clients complete in 4-H, Open Shows, and Breed Shows, at local, regional, and national levels.
Through accomplishing my Mission Statement, I have helped my clients:
- Place in the top 3 at World shows in showmanship, trail, bareback equitation, hunt seat equitation, and western pleasure;
- Place in the top spot at local, regional, and national shows; and,
- Placed my horse in the top 5 in trail and western pleasure at National and World shows
RANDY FOX Friday Evening Performance and Saturday Clinic
Nia for Equestrians is an EXHILARATING, FUN movement practice blending dance, martial arts and healing arts that leads to health, wellness, fitness and a greater connection between you and your horse. It’s for riders of all ages, shapes, sizes and fitness levels. Classes are taken to soul-stirring music and are designed to bring you more awareness of your body in movement with your horse. Every experience can be adapted to fit your individual needs and abilities. Nia for Equestrians will positively enhance your connection to your horse and improve your riding. Nia, the movement practice, is in 40 countries and has been around since 1983. For more info on Nia go to http://www.nianow.com.
Randee Fox biography:
Randee Fox is a Certified Black Belt Nia Teacher and has been teaching Nia, an energetic fitness practice that blends dance, martial arts and healing arts, since 2004. With a now 30-year background in studying dance and equestrian activities, teaching Nia for Equestrians is a natural. She has owned and operated her own AQHA horsemanship school, The Blue Heron Ranch, in Sammamish, Washington since 1997 and teaches Nia from her ranch studio and at Bellevue Family YMCA. By profession she is also an artist, a journalist, a college art teacher, and is an award-winning freelance illustrator, photographer and writer for AQHA publications since 1997.
After combining Nia with her own equestrian activities she found the results to be so positive that she started offering Nia for her riding students. “When the students participated in the Nia classes before riding, they were much more aware of their own body, stronger, more relaxed, more supple, had more stamina, thus had a deeper connection with the movement of their horse.”
She is now currently developing ‘Nia for Equestrians’ for the Nia International Corporation and has been invited to become a part of the International Nia Trainer Faculty – training teachers to teach the practice, and will graduate that program in the fall of 2011.
“Teaching and sharing the brilliant practice of Nia and now Nia for Equestrians has been a creative and rewarding journey - one that brings all my areas of art, skill, knowledge and teaching together. I invite you to join me at the Region One Championships in this exhilarating and fun community music and movement experience that will enhance your body awareness, connection to your horse’s body and improve your riding.” Learn more about Randee Fox here: http://www.randeefox.com
Extreme Trail Demo Friday Evening and Clinic Saturday 9am-Noon
Enter Your Horse in the ExtremeTrail Challenge - Saturday at 1:00 PM
DVM, Diplomate ACVS -Partner and Equine Surgeon and Equine Sports Medicine at Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital.
James E. Bryant
Thursday July 21 4:00pm -Current Concepts in Lameness Diagnosis and Theraputic Options
Dr. Bryant is a 1995 graduate of the University of California-Davis. Following veterinary school Dr. Bryant did a 1 year rotating internship at Texas A&M university and a 3 year surgical residency at the University of Florida. Following completion of his residency Dr. Bryant spent 4 years in clinical teaching positions at the University of Florida and Kansas State University before joining Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital in 2003. Dr. Bryant has spent the last 7 years of his career focused on equine lameness, diagnosis and treatment and now incorporates diagnostic imaging (MRI, radiology and ultrasound), treatment modalities including regenerative medicine and surgery into his daily practices. Dr. Bryant has served as the US Equestrian team Endurance Veterinarian for the past 4 years and has travelled with the team throughout the world to competitions. Dr. Bryant continues to advance his education in the diagnosis and treatment of equine lameness by attending national and international meetings on a regular basis.
Tracey Olney - Trail Designer
Trail Fundamentals 101 July 19 - 9:30-10:30am
Advanced Trail Course Strategy July 19 - 11am-noon
Western Horsemanship July 20, 3 - 4pm Edward Higbee and clients of Signature Show Horses are so excited to be involved in this year’s AQHA Region 1 Experience. Training out of the beautiful Skykomish River Ranch in Monroe, Washington, Edward specializes in getting the best out of you and your horse. His teams have gone on to win Top 5 finishes at the APHA World Show in Showmanship, Horsemanship, and Trail as well as many AQHA and APHA circuit championships and all around awards. Along with his passion for developing riders and their horses for all around competition, Edward has trained and shown many Western Pleasure and Hunter Under Saddle contenders. If you are interested in becoming part of the Signature Show Horses team, please call or text Edward at (425) 418-3432.
Denise Callahan - 
HUNT SEAT EQUITATION July 20, 1-2pm www.callahanshowhorses.com
Denise has been training horses professionally for at least the last 16 years. She enjoys showing, training, and working with Quarter Horses. Denise has taken the time to create a fun training program. She feels it is not only important to do well at shows but to also enjoy them and have a good experience. One of her main goals is to teach riders how to better communicate with their horses and have a good time in the show ring. Her motto is “We make competition seriously fun”.
Question & Answer with WCHA Judge Eddie Hicks
Home: Argyle, TX
Occupation: Trainer
Cards Held: WCHA
Major Shows Judged: None
Activities and Accomplishments: Trained Barrel Horses
In Stand of Copper. Won Congress 1980 Youth
Won Congress Open Geldings 2000;
Owned 2-time World Champion Mr. by Mr. - Congress Winner.
Train for Fossil Gate Farms
Family: Daughter - Sarah Hicks
Birthplace: Louisburg, NC
College: NC State / B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Contact Information: 910-514-8361
Laurie Takoff July 20, 12-1pm HALTER
 
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Splendora Papetti Huizenga
Horse care and Management July 20, 4 - 5pm
Sharing the knowledge of basic horse care, feed, barn set up & healthcare from the HORSES PERSPECTIVE.
"I teach FOR the horse and he is treated firm but fair in his daily life so he is content"
Splendora has been teaching and training for 41 years and has owned a tack shop and large stable. She coached for the Western Washington Equestrian Team for 5 years. Today Splendora is semi-retired and is still working with a few friends and their horses teaching them to be real horsemen FOR the horse. Splendora also spends her time consulting for barn layouts. www.papettipastures.com
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