Local Trainers Show Award Winning Horses

The Pinto Horse Association of America held it’s 2007 World Championship Show in Tulsa, Okla. for two weeks beginning on June 15.

The association had a record breaking show by way of entries - Up 10 percent from 2006 and a whopping 46 percent increase in the last four years. The association rented more than 2,500 stalls.
Drawing exhibitors from more than 22 states, it was the largest PtHA show on record. PtHA is a family friendly organization. During the first week they held a “welcome party” supplying the huge horse show crowd with free food and live entertainment on the lawns outside of the old coliseum.

The show grounds in Tulsa have been renovated in the past few years and offer several brand new, enclosed, air conditioned arenas, that can handle more than 3,000 stalls under cover and still maintains the original brick, three story horse show coliseum, an Oklahoma Historical County Fair Building.

Rising Sun Quarter Horses from Castle Dale entered four horses the first time they attended this event. “Im Show Fine” a 2 year old Perlino stallion owned by Robert and Melanie Kissling of Rangley, Colo., earned a World Championship, placing first under all three judges. “Mister Bruce Almighty” owned by LaDonna Pierce of Price was ninth overall in the Amateur 3 and over Overo Stallion Class. He also earned a sixth place overall in the 3 and 4 year old Overo Stallion class. A yearling stallion, Kids Triple Threat, also owned by Robert and Melanie Kissling was 6th overall in the Yearling Overo Stallion class.

The last few years have seen and increase in the quality of horses shown at this World Championship show - it’s growing in leaps and bounds drawing the top PtHA and APHA/AQHA trainers and owners from all over the country. Hal and April Schiffner own Rising Sun Quarter Horses in Castle Dale. Hal showed each entry in the Open classes while the owners of each entry showed in the Amateur Division. This was their first time exhibiting in Tulsa for PtHA and they and their clients enjoyed it so much that they are already planning their trip for 2008.

Hal Schiffner holds judging cards in POA (Ponies Of America, and PHBA (Palomino Horse Breeders of America) and has been training horses in the United States (Hal is originally from Canada) since 1993. He has trained and shown a World Champion, Reserve World Champion and several World Champion Top Five World Placing horses. His wife, April, has raised and shown Three PHBA World Champions and Two AQHA World Champions. They invite you to stop by and visit if you are in the market for training or looking to buy or breed. They currently stand 11 stallions including three World Champions.