AQHA MARKETING AND MEDIA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

America’s Horse, February 11, 2008 – The American Quarter Horse Association through its Marketing and Media Awards recognizes outstanding journalistic efforts to promote the American Quarter Horse throughout the world. The 2006 Marketing and Media Awards entries have been judged, and the winners are being announced. The entries are for articles, photographs and other works published from January 1 to December 31, 2006.

Formerly called the Sprint and Steel Dust awards, the contest was designed to recognize outstanding coverage and promotion of horses, people and events within the American Quarter Horse industry through television, newspaper, radio, photographs and AQHA affiliates.

The contest winners will be recognized in March during the 2008 AQHA Convention in San Francisco. Category winners receive a specially designed Lisa Perry Bronze featuring a Steel Dust-type American Quarter Horse.

Award winners for 2006 are:

Print Media - Commentary

1^st: Star Tribune, Best Horse at Canterbury is (gasp!) a Quarter Horse, Rachel Blount

Print Media - News Reporting

1^st: Cutting Horse Chatter, Make it a Waurika Weekend, Stacy Pigott

2^nd: Western Horse Review, Breed Show Extraordinaire, Heather Cook

Print Media - Feature

1^st: Western Horseman, The NU Cash Legacy, Juli S. Thorson

2^nd: Western Horseman, Clay Makes the Cut, Julie Wells

3^rd: Cutting Horse Chatter, Find Your Focus, Stacy Pigott

Honorable Mention: Western Horse Review, Winter on the Ranch, Marti Webster

Internet

1^st: StallioneSearch.com

2^nd: wittelsbuerger.com

3^rd: pleasurehorse.com

Affiliate Magazine

1^st: Quarter Horse Journal – Deutsche, Barbara Liese 

2^nd: Rocky Mountain Quarter Horse Association (RMQHA) Magazine 

3^rd: Minnesota Quarter Horse Association (MQHA) Magazine, Vickie Kettlewell

Honorable Mention: Iowa Quarter Horse Magazine, Jennifer Horton                   

Photography

1^st: Quarter Horses – Popular Horses Series, Quarter Horse Home on the Range, Sharon P. Fibelkorn

2^nd: AQHA UK Journal, Nathan Haynes 

3^rd: Quarter Horses – Popular Horses Series, Looking Through the Bridle, Sharon P. Fibelkorn

Single Edition - Print

1^st: Quarter Horses – Popular Horses Series

2^nd: Canadian Supreme 30^th Anniversary Special Edition, Western Horse Review

Multimedia

1^st:  World Equestrian Games 2007 WDR/ARD Public TV, Simone Jacob

Honorable Mention: World Equestrian Games Reining 2006, Roland Hahn