AQHA MARKETING AND MEDIA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The American Quarter Horse Association announces the 2005 Marketing and Media Awards winners.

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 category winners will be recognized during the 2007 AQHA Convention in March in Houston. Category winners receive a specially designed Lisa Perry Bronze featuring a Steel Dust-type American Quarter Horse.

To learn more about the contest and to obtain contest entry forms, visit AQHA’s Web site at aqha.com.

Award winners are listed below:

Print Media - Commentary
1^st: Speedhorse, Take Five, Diane Ciarloni

Print Media - News Reporting
1^st: Cutting Horse Chatter, Music City Futurity, Stacy Pigott
2^nd: Northern Horse Review, Venturing South in 2004, Jenn Webster
3^rd: Speedhorse, Vals Fortune Tops $1 Million, Gloria Dow and Speedhorse Staff

Print Media - Feature
1^st: Western Horseman, The Waggoner Ranch, Holly Endersby
2^nd: Speedhorse, My Years With Go Man Go, Diane Ciarloni
3^rd: Western Horseman, The Most Marketable Color, April Fingerlos
Honorable Mention: Northern Horse Review, The Hollywood Hand, Tammy Meadows

Internet
1^st: Quarter Horse Today, Ramona Billing
2^nd: AQHYA Region 10, Jessi Mitchell

Marketing Campaign
1^st: Rocky Mountain Quarter Horse Association

Affiliate Magazine
1^st: Iowa Quarter Horse Association, Jennifer Horton
2^nd: Ohio Quarter Horse Association, Connie Lechleitner

Illustration
1^st: Northern Horse Review
2^nd: Speedhorse

Photography
1^st: Horse Motion Photographics
2^nd: Horse Motion Photographics
3^rd: Horse Motion Photographics

Single Edition - Print
1^st: “A Guide To Cutting,” Cutting Horse Chatter
Honorable Mention: Ohio Quarter Horse Association News, Connie Lechleitner
Honorable Mention: Speedhorse, “The Racing Report”

Multimedia
1^st: Horse Racing Alberta, Jeff Robillard
2^nd: Germany – 2005DQHA Convention Trailer, Roland Hochn
3^rd: Fox 5 News (WTTG), Holly Morris (Reporter) and Patricia Corcoran (Producer)