World Show: November 12
November 12, 2009
Check out the photos below from Day 7 of the 2009 AQHA World Championship Show (click on the photo to see the captions). For more coverage of the World Show, go to www.qha.com.
Would you pay $2,000 for a show halter?
Mary Helen Borsch (right) and the halter worn by multiple world champion Pick Me Please. Pictured with her daughter, Mimsy Lovering. (Journal photo)
You might if it had belonged to a legendary horse and it was being auctioned off to raise money for an organization you supported.
That’s what Mary Helen Borsch of Pilot Point, Texas, did. She was a very determined bidder for the silver show halter that used to belong to multiple world champion Pick Me Please. The bidding stopped at $2,000.
Mary Helen bought the halter at the 2009 World Conformation Horse Association banquet and benefit auction on November 11, held at the Oklahoma State Fair Park alongside the AQHA World Championship Show. The banquet featured a stallion service auction and live and silent auctions of items donated to benefit the 2-year-old association. Other items donated included two Pittsburgh Steelers jerseys signed by NFL Hall of Fame quarterback and halter exhibitor Terry Bradshaw.
Why did Mary Helen want the halter? “Because I have a beautiful filly that will wear it and maybe win,” she said with a big smile. “We’re hoping for some good luck from it.”
A 1989 daughter of Mr Conclusion and out of Sissydator by The Intimidator, Pick Me Please was the 1993 world champion aged mare, 1992 youth and open world champion 3-year-old mare and 1991 world champion 2-year-old mare.
And as of November 12, the WCHA officially joined forces with AQHA as an alliance partner.
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