Challenge Accepted

Recently trainer Jesse Chase was featured in a podcast where he recounts the tale of his ride in the Arabian Working Western Allience Ranch Challenge Class at US Nationals.

The podcast is great and if you want to see the class as Jess rode it on the lovely mare Edyta. I watched that class online and was so impressed with the way Jesse managed this mare that I bought the video from the provider and have posted it in the blog I wrote back in November of 2023.

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The AHA National Championship show this year was host to the first ever AWWA Ranch Challenge. For those that might not be familiar with that acronym, it stands for Arabian Working Western Alliance, a group that promotes and develops programs for the Arabian and Half-Arabian Working Western horse.

While I couldn't be there to watch in person, thanks to the excellent live feed from Richfield Video Production I was able to tune in to any arena I wanted from the comfort of couch.

Fortunately, I happened to click on the link for the Arabian Ranch Challenge on Friday evening and I was glad I did because I watched a great class and what became one of my favorite "go's" of the show.

Competing against some very seasoned horses, Edyta P was the youngest entry. This four-year-old is owned by Corky and Bill Fairchild and trained and ridden by Jesse Chase. Even at 4, Edyta is no stranger to the show pen, having competed in 2022 and come away with 2 Reserve National titles in Junior Horse Reining. This year Edyta earned the top awards in that division in addition to several others including a Top Ten in Ranch Ranch Rail AATR 55 & Over with Corky!

While I've shared the link to the entire class (which I purchased from Richfield Video) at the end of this post, below is the same class from a different perspective and with priceless audio...with Corky and Bill Fairchild's reactions as they watch their trainer (Jesse Chase) and Edyta negotiate the inaugural AWWA Ranch Challenge.

Link to the 2023 Arabian Working Western Alliance Arabian Ranch Challenge Class below

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show...