The Fundamentals
The unit in which horse height is measured.
What is hands?
The first registered horse within AQHA.
Who is Wimpy?
Through this program, AQHYA members 13 and up are taught to care for and train a donated weanling. There is a focus on equine wellness and responsibility.
What is the AQHA Ranching Heritage Young Horse Development Program?
This show is the world's largest single-breed world championship horse show open exclusively to youth exhibitors age 18 and under.
What is the AQHA Youth World Championship Show?
The four states in which Region 10 consists of?
What are North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia?
What is bay?
This ability of the Quarter Horse breed gave it its name.
What is the ability to outrun other horse breeds in races of 1⁄4 mi or less?
This program provides youth ages 16-18 with the fast-paced world of AQHA while building on knowledge through experience from behind the starting gate to the finish line.
What is the AQHA Youth Racing Experience?
This brand sponsors the AQHA Youth World Show, providing significant cash prizes for top finishers in Level 3 classes, judging, and speech contests, boosting the total prize money to over $1 million for the 2025 event.
What is Kimes Ranch? (What is the Kimes Ranch Competition Award Fund?)
The three Region 10 Directors for the 2025-2026 term.
Who are Camdyn Evans, MaryKate Couey, and Gracie Sater?
Which type of brush is used on horses in little circles to loosen up packed dirt, sweat, mud, and hair?
What is a curry comb?
What is the American Quarter Horse Journal?
In this program, riders are awarded for riding their horse. By logging their hours, they can win milestone patches, gift certificates, belt buckles, and more.
What is the AQHA Horseback Riding Program?
This youth contest is the most popular of the Youth World contests. Participants evaluate a variety of four-horse halter and performance classes and give four to six sets of memorized oral reasons depicting their placings.
What is the Horse Judging Contest?
This youth state affiliate has the greatest number of youth members.
What is the North Carolina Quarter Horse Youth Association (NCQHYA?
The fastest recorded speed for a Quarter Horse over a short sprint.
What is 55 miles per hour?
Before it was known as AQHYA, the youth division of AQHA was called this.
What is the American Junior Quarter Horse Association (AJQHA)?
This program is designed to help support young adults in their development as young leaders in the equine industry.
What is AQHLead?
These four countries participated in the 2025 AQHA Youth World Show.
What are the United States, Canada, Brazil, and China?
This state affiliate within Region 10 annually hosts the greater number of horse shows.
There are this many bones in a horse.
What are 205 bones?
In 2025, he was elected as AQHA President, succeeding 2024 President Jim Hunt.
Who is Jeff Tebow?
This program offers free online learning resources for youth members ages 8-18 with topics including horse health, history, and basic knowledge.
What is AQHLearn?
This program offers free clinics where AQHA Professional Horsemen demonstrate and teach riders how to perform specific patterns.
What is Ride the Pattern (RTP)?
This youth state affiliate is represented among the Young Horse Development Program for the 2026 term.
What is the South Carolina Quarter Horse Youth Association?