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The Arabian Horse Association (AHA) is the single national organization that registers Arabian horses in the United States. It also works with the United States Equestrian Federation to sanction horse shows for Arabian horses. The Arabian horse is a breed of horse with a reputation for intelligence, high spirit, and outstanding stamina. ...
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is the national governing body for most equestrian sports in the United States, including dressage, driving, endurance riding, eventing, hunt seat equitation, hunter, jumper, paralympic, reining, roadster, saddleseat equitation, vaulting, and western riding. ...
A horse show is a judged exhibition of horses and ponies. ...
The AHA was formed by a merger between the International Arabian Horse Association (IAHA) and the Arabian Horse Registry of America (AHRA) in 2002. AHRA was the older of the two organizations, founded in 1908. The IAHA, founded in the 1950's, organized to "meet the breeding, competitive and recreational interests of all Arabian horse owners," also established a Half-Arabian and Anglo-Arabian registry. The Arabian horse is a breed of horse with a reputation for intelligence, high spirit, and outstanding stamina. ...
The Anglo-Arabian horse is just what its name implies: a Thoroughbred (prefix Anglo) crossed with an Arabian horse. ...
Arabian horse shows
AHA shows are for Arabians, Half-Arabians, and Anglo-Arabian Horses only. The shows consist of smaller local shows which qualify riders to go to larger regional shows which qualify riders to compete at nationals. There are three nationals: U.S. Nationals, Youth Nationals, and Canadian Nationals. The Anglo-Arabian horse is just what its name implies: a Thoroughbred (prefix Anglo) crossed with an Arabian horse. ...
U.S. Nationals has previously been held every other year at Louisville, Kentucky and Albuquerque, New Mexico in October. However, beginning 2008, U.S. Nationals will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The city of Tulsa has promised to update their facilities, and the Arabian Horse Association is saving large amounts of money by holding U.S. at Tulsa. Despite the seemingly good possibility of Tulsa, the greater of the Arabian competitors are unhappy with this change for varying reasons. U.S. Nationals is for adult amateurs (ages 18+) and trainers only, the kids under 18 get their own Nationals: Youth Nationals.
 A golf cart from the golf cart parade. Youth Nationals is held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the end of June. There has been rumor of Youth Nationals also moving its location to Tulsa, much to the disgust of the Youth exhibitors. As result of these rumors there has been exceedingly enthusiastic protesting. Youth Nationals usually contains about 2100 horses, although numbers have been rising every year. The Youth also have their own Association, the Arabian Horse Youth Association (AHYA), who bring the Youths' voices to the Arabian Horse Association (AHA). In addition to regular classes, Youth Nationals also hosts several "fun classes" such as the dog races, dog costume contest, and most famously, the golf cart parade. The golf cart parade consists of 1 golf cart for every region decorated extravagantly to the theme for that region.
The last nationals is Canadian Nationals. Canadian Nationals is held in Regina, Saskatchewan in August. This unique nationals is also known as the "Red Royal" and features classes for every competitor. The main recognition of Canadian Nationals are the Canadian Rangers who present the prizes.
 A purebred Arabian Park horse. Within Nationals, the placing is decided by three judges who each write their own cards up separately. Usually, an exhibitor will have several cuts to make before he or she will ride in the final. When the final is over, the announcer calls out the top ten horses, and then the reserve national champion (2nd place), and the national champion (1st place). Reserve champions receive a red and white rose garland and a trophy, national champions receive a coveted large red rose garland and trophy.
Insofar as classes go, there are many different classes but the main disciplines are English, Hunter, and Western. Within English there is Park, English, and Country English- each classified based on how high the horse's knee is. If a horse is English, his or her knee at the trot is level or higher; if a horse is Country English, the knee is below level; if Park, the knee is way above level and the frame of the horse is changed so that all their power comes from their back end. Park is the most exciting class at Nationals and a favorite of the exhibitors. In addition to the knee, English is characterized by the uprightness of the horses head and tucking in of the head.
Hunter is the largest division and is based off of hunting parties from Europe. The horses frame is rounded, and his or her neck is like a half circle with the head being parallel to the withers. Western is very similar to hunter, except it is much slower and the horses head should be further down.
 A drawing of an Arabian in Native Costume. The classes are divided between Arabians and Half-Arabians/Anglo-Arabians. The age divisions are 6 & under, 13 & under, 14-17, 18-39, 40 & over, 55 & over, and open. Open classes are for anyone, but are generally trainers because trainers are not allowed to compete with amateurs or youth in the other age groups. The classes are also divided into Pleasure and Equatation. Pleasure is where the judging is primarily on the horse and Equatation is where the judging is based on the riders form and partially the horse.
Other specialty classes include sidesaddle, show hack, reining, cowhorse, and native costume. The most popular of these is the native costume which embraces the Arabian heritage by dresses the horses in elaborate semi-traditional costumes and showing them at only three gates: the walk, the canter, and the hand-gallop.
History of IAHA The International Arabian Horse Association (IAHA) was the better-known of the two organizations that merged to create the AHA, and its final years were embroiled in controversy.
Controversy of Michael Brown The association appointed Michael Brown as its first Judges and Stewards Commissioner. He served from from 1989 until 2001. Brown attempted to crack down on members of the association for rule violations, and prosecuted one prominent trainer and judge in particular for "plastic surgery" and other artificial enhancements to horses, including tattooing and liposuction. Some members accused Brown of practicing favoritism by prosecuting some members and not others. But while the trainer and judge in question was suspended for five years and several horses he had shown disqualified for assorted championships, he filed suit against the organization, along with several other individuals who owned horses associated with the trainer. Some of these large lawsuits were against the association and others named Brown personally. IAHA fought the lawsuit brought by the suspended trainer and won, though accumulated crippling legal fees in doing so. On the advice of counsel and their insurer, IAHA settled the remaining cases. Michael Brownie Brown For other people of the same name, see Michael Brown (disambiguation). ...
Brown volunteered to resign after controversy about his fundraising methods for defending against the lawsuits and his creation of a personal legal defense fund. After leaving IAHA, he became the director of FEMA, and was once again a target of controversy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. New FEMA seal The Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA is an agency of the United States government dedicated to swift response in the event of disasters, both natural and man-made. ...
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See also The Arabian horse is a breed of horse with a reputation for intelligence, high spirit, and outstanding stamina. ...
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is the national governing body for most equestrian sports in the United States, including dressage, driving, endurance riding, eventing, hunt seat equitation, hunter, jumper, paralympic, reining, roadster, saddleseat equitation, vaulting, and western riding. ...
External links - Arabian Horse Association (AHA)
- resignation agreement
- interview with IAHA Secretary Gary Dearth about Brown (3)
- Karl Hart article at awhitehorse.com (cached) (4)
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