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Well we are finally home from the AMHA World show. It was a lot of fun but a meat grinder with something going everyday it seems. We onaly took 12 horses, but brought home 11 top 10 placements which is always our goal at nationals. There were about 850-875 horses this year and it was very very competitive. Liberty's Miss Kentucky was the Champion of Champions this year and was beautiful. We had representatives from South Africa, Holland, Spain, France, Germany and Australia which made it a lot of fun to talk to those folks about how the American Miniature Horse is viewed over seas. The little girl pictured at the bottom of the page was sold at the national sale and was the high selling filly of the sale. She was sold to a wonderful lady named Val Shingledecker and will be shown next year in the AMHA/AMHR circut.

Anyway 1 more show and we are done for the year and I am ready for some Home time. But then again Breeding season wil be on us in a couple of months, so it never ends LOL.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms

Cherryville Farms

Welcome Back! Glad to see you will get some down time soon. That's a huge turnout....mini's are becoming so popular. So how are the mini's viewed in the other countries?

PHFlea

>>Well we are finally home from the AMHA World show. It was a lot of fun but a meat grinder with something going everyday it seems. We onaly took 12 horses, but brought home 11 top 10 placements which is always our goal at nationals. There were about 850-875 horses this year and it was very very competitive. Liberty's Miss Kentucky was the Champion of Champions this year and was beautiful. We had representatives from South Africa, Holland, Spain, France, Germany and Australia which made it a lot of fun to talk to those folks about how the American Miniature Horse is viewed over seas. The little girl pictured at the bottom of the page was sold at the national sale and was the high selling filly of the sale. She was sold to a wonderful lady named Val Shingledecker and will be shown next year in the AMHA/AMHR circut.
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>>Anyway 1 more show and we are done for the year and I am ready for some Home time. But then again Breeding season wil be on us in a couple of months, so it never ends LOL.
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>>John Cherry
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PHFlea
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There is a very thriving interest over there for a number of reasons. One of the most prevalent is that space is restricted in a lot of the country's and there are laws as to how many you can have. It seems in places like Holland for instance the number of big horses is about half what you can keep as versus Mini's. I guess if you are going to restrict things that makes sense, but it would really rankle me to have the goverment tell me what I can and cannot do. As long as I have the facilites and means to care for them properly. LOL

The number of mini's is increasing almost daily and there are now shows and events particularly for them. The export of mini's is becoming a daily event with a lot less hassles than ever before.

John Cherry
Cherryville Farms

Cherryville Farms