The Southwest Quarter Horse Association serves New Mexico and West Texas with some of the biggest and best horse shows in the country!

Don't know if you were able to get to the May  Border Circuit, but lot's of people did.  So many, in fact, that we ran out of covered stalls!  The circuit awards were donated by the Brandt family, beautiful monogramed boot bags.  Unfortunately they were not completed by the show so they will be mailed to the winners:  Junior Horse - BLAZING HOT HEIR/Susan Baker; Senior Horse -  BLUES BLAZING CHIP/Sara Kirkpatrick; Novice Amateur - Celeste Hudgens/Tenders Two Step; Amateur - Jessica Johnson/DETAILS N ART; Select - Toni Jean Miller/ART XZIBIT; Novice Youth - Erin Van Pelt/LILLEYS JUSTASKIPPIN; Youth 15-18 - Sara Kirkpatrick/BLUES BLAZING CHIP; Youth 12-14 - Hallie Padilla/ONE INVITATION ONLY; Youth 11 and under - Taylen Marler/HOTRODDIN JET.

John Karl and Celeste Hudgens (El Chaparral) donated three special high point awards.  For the Youth Equitation class, a pair of leather gators won by Sara Kirkpatrick from the Albuquerque area.  Marci Braddock won tooled spur straps for her first time out in Novice Amateur Reining.  The winner in the Amateur Heading won a breast collar, congrats to Susan Olson from Scottsdale.  A special SWQHA award of a show pad went to the Hi Point Amateur Halter Gelding.  That was won by MR MYSTERIO and Mary Pennington.  One little note of interest from the show.  The highest trail score was achieved by Taylen Marler in the Youth Trail Class at the Split/Combined Show.  Chris Hardcastle donated two beautiful necklaces to be raffled off.  The Amateur was won by Derryl Brandt and Eric Van Pelt won the Youth raffle.

Oscar and Dorothy Calzadillas will have their concession stand at the fairgrounds with breakfast and lunch again in June.  They put out a lot of good food; hot coffee, hot chocolate, hamburgers, brisket and lots more!

The qualifying dates for Select World are June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2009.

The July show will be in association with the New Mexico Reiners and be NRHA approved.  Josh Armstrong is working on the coordination.  The premium is updated to show the NRHA and NMRHA classes.  The entry fees listed only apply to the AQHA classes.  For the entry fees for the NRHA/NMRHA classes, contact Josh or his show secretary.

There will be a limit placed on the number of workers (6) at the final show of the year.  Don't wait until the last minute to get your requirement out of the way.  Help is needed for the June and July shows.  Get your work requirement out of the way now and don't wait till the last minute.

All of the Year End Sponsorships are met.  Check out the list on this web site and say thanks to these folks when you see them.

Last reminder about work and membership requirements!  Everyone should know by now that the owner and exhibitor must be members for their points to count for year end awards.  Work requirements are being closely monitored.