More than 7,500 AQHA open, Select and amateur entries competed for prestigious honors at the world championship show.
That’s a wrap on a successful AQHA World Championship Show! The 2022 Farnam AQHA World Championship Show; AQHA Select World Championship Show, presented by Adequan® (polysulfated glycosaminoglycan); Adequan® Level 2 Championships; and Nutrena Level 1 Champion of Champions saw more than 7,500 entries and 281 first-time exhibitors compete for 268 championship titles, 104 Farnam AQHA world championships, 44 Adequan® Select world championships, 106 Adequan® Level 2 championships and 14 Nutrena Level 1 Champion of Champion titles, plus, more than $2 million in purse, prizes and the coveted gold globes at this year’s event, October 27 – November 19.
Find all of the official results and winning runs at www.aqha.com/worldshow and relive record setting moments from the Jim Norick and Adequan® Performance arenas.
The most anticipated awards of the event were presented to the Farnam AQHA Superhorse, AQHA All-Around Amateur, AQHA Select All-Around Amateur, OKC Leading Owner, The American Quarter Horse Journal Reserve Leading Owner and the top AQHA Ranching Heritage-bred horses at the show.
Farnam AQHA Superhorse
The 2022 Farnam AQHA Superhorse is Hez Blazin Trouble owned by Bonnie Sheren of Studio City, California. Hez Blazin Trouble received an original Lisa Perry bronze and a $30,000 Cimarron award certificate, good toward the purchase of a Cimarron trailer. Read more about the top five 2022 Farnam Superhorses.
Oklahoma City Leading Owner
The Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau Leading Owner is awarded to the owner who has the highest number of points accumulated for their horses entered at the Farnam AQHA World in both Level 3 and Adequan® Level 2 classes across the amateur and open divisions. The owner must have three horses entered at the show to be eligible. This year’s Oklahoma City Leading Owner is Dan Fox of Chino, California. Fox earned 122 points with 11 American Quarter Horses during the show. The American Quarter Horse Journal Reserve Leading Owner is Josh Weakly of Shelbyville, Illinois, who earned 95 points with five six American Quarter Horses.
Farnam All-Around Amateur
Morgan Ratkowski of Pleasant View, Tennessee, showing Better Buy The Minit earned the 2022 Amateur All Around title. Ratkowski received a prize package that included a neck wreath, $10,000 and a Lisa Perry Bronze. Read more about the top five AQHA Select All-Around Amateur exhibitors.
AQHA Select All-Around Amateur
The 2022 Select All-Around Amateur is Laina Banks of Schulenburg, Texas. Banks showed Strawberri Wine. Banks received a prize package that included an original Lisa Perry Bronze and $10,000. Read more about the top five AQHA Select All-Around Amateur exhibitors.
Gene Graves Super-Select Special Recognition
The 2022 Gene Graves Super-Select Recognition Award recipient is Linda Ball Sargent of Eustis, Florida. Sargent showed The Whoo, a 2017 sorrel gelding by The Lopin Machine and out of Whos Cheating Who. He was bred by Scott and Linda Berwick of Clarence Creek, Ontario. Sargent and The Whoo earned the title with 11 points. They were crowned reserve world champions in Select western pleasure.
2022 Nutrena Senior Athletes
The 2022 Nutrena Senior Athletes of the Adequan® Select Show are Butch Morgan of Weatherford, Texas, and SF Check Me Out. The award is presented to the exhibitor and horse with the highest combined age competing at the Adequan® Select World. AQHA has proudly teamed with AQHA Corporate Partner Nutrena on this award since 2012. Read more about the 2022 Nutrena Senior Athletes.
Top Ranching Heritage Bred Horses
AQHA recognizes the top Ranching Heritage-Bred horses at the Farnam AQHA and Adequan® Select World. The owners and breeders of the top-placing AQHA Ranching Heritage-bred horses each received $250. The owners also received a specially designed trophy. Learn more about the three American Quarter Horses that earned the top Ranching Heritage-Bred awards at this year’s show.
About the Sponsors
Founded in 1946, Farnam Companies Inc., has grown to become one of the most widely recognized names in the animal health products industry, and has become one of the largest makers of equine products in the country. That’s why no one offers a more complete selection of horse care products. Farnam Horse Products serves both the pleasure horse and the performance horse markets with products for fly control, deworming, hoof and leg care, grooming, wound treatment and leather care, plus supplements.
Adequan®, the official equine joint therapy of AQHA, is the proud title sponsor of the Adequan® Select World and the Adequan® Level 2 Championships. When you choose a joint therapy for your horses, choose Adequan®.
Read more about Nutrena, the official feed of AQHA and title sponsor of the 2022 Nutrena Level 1 Champion of Champions classes.
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Contact: Kyla Jones
Manager of Communications
kjones@aqha.org