The North American Anglo-Arabian Horse Association (NAAAHA) sponsored their third High Pont Championship Awards this year at the Sport Horse National Championship Show. Eighteen Anglo-Arabians competed all week at the Kentucky Horse Park.

The five-year-old gelding One More Round++// (Al Jassur Laddin x Winifred) earned Supreme Champion Anglo-Arabian Sport Horse honors thanks to winning the Champion in Sport Horse Under Saddle Amateur To Ride (ATR), Reserve Champion in Hunter Hack ATR and Adult Amateur Owner to Ride (AAOTR), and Top Tens in Green Working Hunter, Working Hunter AAOTR and ATR, Hunter Hack Open, Sport Horse Under Saddle Open, Sport Horse Under Saddle Junior Horse and Sport Horse In Hand Geldings Open. He was ridden by Alexis Starer-Doughty and is owned and bred by Bill Doughty.

Master Reporter+/ (Ebony Masterpiece x Girl Reporter) was Reserve Supreme Champion Anglo-Arabian Sport Horse. This Anglo gelding won the Championships in Second Level Dressage ATR and AAOTR and Top Ten in Third Level ATR, ridden by owner Kathryn Henneman.

Earning Top Five Anglo-Arabian Sport Horse Awards were the two homebreds belonging to Laura Wood. Her second-generation Palomino Anglo gelding Glitter Bey (RFF El Dorado x Almost Crimson+/) was Champion Sport Horse Under Saddle Junior Horse and Top Ten Green Working Hunter and Sport Horse Under Saddle Open. The dark bay stallion Signal Bey (Bey Oro x Run Really Run) earned Champion Sport Horse In Hand Stallions, in addition to winning a Top Ten in Green Working Hunter.

Rounding out the Top Five were Miranda Kuchera and her gelding Diamond Jim Kelly+ (Wildcat Kelly x Jamies Intent) bred by Terry Aldred Kerr. This pair won three Top Tens in Green Working Hunter and Hunter Hack AAOTR and ATR.

The winners all received beautiful neck sashes and embroidered dress sheets, with champion receiving a silver trophy plate as well. Prizes were donated by owners and breeders of Anglo-Arabians to recognize these athletes’ accomplishments.

All in all, Anglo-Arabians accounted for six national championships, five reserve championships and 24 Top Tens.

Anglo-Arabians are the third oldest breed in the world, having been bred in France as far back as the early 1800’s. The breed is comprised of a combination of Thoroughbred and Arabian blood, requiring no more than 75% Thoroughbred and no less than 25% Arabian to be registered. Anglo-Arabians are highly respected worldwide as exceptional athletes, especially in the Olympic disciplines, and are ranked third in the world in the sport of eventing.