Riders in the last split of the western pleasure prelims at the 2010 Adequan Select World wait for the callbacks. Scroll down for more Journal photos.

Check your knowledge of the Adequan Select World Championship Show against this quiz.

With a rumble and a roar of diesel buses, the 2010 Adequan Select World Championship Show exhibitors are rolling into Amarillo for their turn in the spotlight and their time at the parties.

Thirteen new world champions will be named by the end of the second day, but there are many more to come. In all, 41 new world champions will be crowned this week. While you’re catching up with the show on the live webcast, here are a few questions to test your knowledge of the Adequan Select World.

1. How many entries are there?
2. How many horses?
3. How many exhibitors are showing in English classes?
4. How many in western?
5. How many halter horses will go through the coliseum gates?
6. Which horse is the oldest?
7. Which exhibitor?
8. How is the Farnam All-Around Amateur picked?
9. Which class is the largest?
10. How many countries will be represented?

Answers:

1. There are 1,142 entries at the 2010 Adequan Select World.
2. Exhibitors will be showing 796 horses.
3. Of those, 119 horses will show in English classes.
4. And 778 will show in western classes.
5. Exhibitors will lead 245 halter horses to the possibility of a championship in 18 halter classes.
6. Doc Bristers Flash, 25, will be shown in ranch sorting by two-time Select team penning world champion Paul Dopuch of Hermann, Missouri. Truck A Buck, a two-time Select world champion in jumping, will be showing in that class again at age 25 with his longtime exhibitor Dr. April Speyer of Wichita, Kansas.
7. Suzanne Jones, 85, of Tatum, New Mexico, will be showing in western riding and hunt seat equitation. You might also recognize Suzanne’s name from the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame, which she was inducted into in 1999.
8. This year, AQHA Corporate Partner Farnam has taken on the title sponsorship of the all-around award. To qualify for the award and its $10,000 cash prize, amateurs must enter a single horse in at least three events in two categories. Look for that winner to be announced later in the week.
9. Ranch sorting is the largest class, with 152 competitors divided into 76 teams for one of AQHA’s most popular fast-paced classes.
10. If you bend an ear, you might hear accents from  40 states in the United States, three Canadian provinces and Austria. Look for more on an Austrian exhibitor later in the week.

The American Quarter Horse Journal is onsite to bring you full coverage of the 2010 Adequan Select World, including daily slideshows like the one below. (Click on the photo to read the caption.)

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