Can Your Horse Cut It?


	There has been a buzz at the Arabian Horse Shows lately and that has been the increase in the working western divisions and it is obvious that the trend will continue. Region IX saw an increase of fifty percent in the entries of the Half Arabian Working Cow Horses at their 2005 Regionals; at the 2005 US Nationals there was a thirty percent increase in the Purebred Working Cow; an eighty percent increase in the Half Arabian working cow, an eighty percent increase in purebred reining and a twenty-five percent increase from the previous year. Membership in the Arabian Reining Horse Association has doubled with regards to Youth members and increases every year for adults. Couple that with the award money that is now being offered and it is making amateurs, trainers and breeders take note.
	The President of the Arabian Reining Horse Association, Eleanor Hamilton, states that Reining at the Scottsdale Show in particular has become a growing discipline over the past few years and is expected to continue in rising popularity. The addition of the Half-Arab and Purebred reining Futurity in 2006 for 4 and 5 year olds, in both snaffle and hackamore has sparked a lot of new interest, particularly in light of the fact that the proposed payout is $50,000 for the Purebred Futurity and $80,000 for the Half Arabian Futurity! Eleanor continued by saying “I have had a lot of calls from the quarter Horse trainers wanting to know where they can get a Half-Arab. They are all aware of the opportunities available in Arabian and Half-Arabian Reining horses, and they are interested in getting involved. I think if we can draw people in from other breeds we are definitely on the right track!” Plans for the future, according to the Arabian Reining Horse Association, include an event in 2007 similar to the NRHA Derby.	"I think if we can draw people in from other breeds we are definitely on the right track!”
	Attending a meeting of the Working Cow Horse Division in Albuquerque, Terry Hatfield reports that it was disclosed that the projected added price money of $10,000 for the Purebred Open Working Cow Horse and $10,000 for the Purebred Junior Working Cow Horse would be added to these classes annually at US Nationals for a period of the next three years. "Now is such a great time to be in on the beginning of the working Arabian horse” states Terry Hatfield, “and we are getting ready!” Terry has been busy preparing Wolf Point’s breeding program for the working western classes. With notable Continued

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