2008 Youth World Cup

2008 AQHA YOUTH WORLD CUP

A CUT ABOVE THE WORLD.

The sound of "mooing" greeted AQHA Youth World Cup participants the morning of Friday, July 11, as cutting was the order of the day. AQHA Pro Horseman Teddy Johnson and trainer Troy Donaldson led a four-hour clinic in the morning and then after lunch it was off to the cutting show.


Carola Dal Christensen of Team Denmark warms up her horse for the cutting clinic. She has performed in cutting at the 2004 and 2006 AQHA Youth World Cups.	Bailey Donaldson of Boston, Ontario, gives a cutting demonstration at the cutting clinic. The 8-year-old has been showing cutting horses for three years.

Team Israel's Rotem Zuitlin has some fun while the team cleans the stall area.	James Youells of Riverbend Designs, the official 2008 Youth World Cup photographer, takes some photos at the backdrop.

The Trail of Painted Ponies provided a limited edition of a Canadian horse painted with maple leaves to be given to each first place winner.	Canadian Quarter Horse Association President Marnie Somers and her husband, Wilf Davis, work the CQHA booth at the trade show.

Stephanie Muller (left) and Lori Donaldson both donated horses for the cutting. Lori and husband, Troy, own Donaldson Ranch in Waterford, Ontario - they organized the cutting from sand to horses, with the help of a big team of volunteers.	Roy Ionson announced the Youth World Cup cutting show. He was the founding president of the Ontario Quarter Horse Association and brought the first Quarter Horse into Canada in 1954, a gelding from the Waggoner Ranch.

Steffi Young of Team New Zealand and Dante Vaaca, owned by Mike McKay, cut their cow.	Jill Henderson and her husband, Dr. Jim Henderson, donated their horse, Sas An Flip, for the event. Each horse owner received an AQHA Youth World Cup halter and lead as a gift.

Do you have a Youth World Cup story to share? Send an e-mail to Christine Hamilton or Tonya Ratliff-Garrison, the Journal's field editors in London for the show.

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