All About Quarter Horse Congress: Weekly Performance Report September 28
Performance ReportSep 28, 2026
It’s officially fall, and this Weekly Performance Report is honed in on the All American Quarter Horse Congress, which began Sept. 26 and is running for nearly a month in Columbus, Ohio.
From the ranch riding, trail, and rail to the limited-age events in reining and the RSNC’s Congress Super Sort, there are plenty of storylines emerging from the world’s largest single-breed show.
Ranch, Reining, RSNC: All American Quarter Horse Congress
Columbus, Ohio | September 26–October 24 | Ohio Expo Center
The All American Quarter Horse Congress opened September 26 with its Ranch classes, and Bud Lyon put his name on the board twice. Lyon and Sumac Gunnabeflashy (Leslie Vagneur Lange) won the Senior Ranch Riding. This is coming off a recent tie in the Senior Ranch Riding at the World Equestrian Center’s Championship Show, where Lyon and Shannon Quinlan Hill
Check out ranch riding and rail highlights from the Congress below.
2026 Congress Ranch Class Champions, September 26–27
Congress’s reining program got underway alongside the ranch classes, and Cade McCutcheon put together the week’s biggest number. He and All Nite Partier (owned by Sotol Investments LLC) topped both the All Star Reining Stakes Open Derby Level 4 and the sister NRHA Open Reining class on the same run, a 225.50, worth a combined $22,802 between the two checks.
The dac Vitamins & Minerals Freestyle Reining, one of Congress’s sellout night shows, ran Saturday as scheduled and crowned champions in both the Open and Non Pro divisions. Keith A Ceddia and Sammy Simmons’s Sls Hells Fury won the Open Freestyle on a 235.50, while Taylor Zimmerman topped the Non Pro Freestyle aboard her own Its All About Ruf, who also placed second in the Open division for owner Vaughn Zimmerman.
Weatherford, Texas | September 28–October 13 | Bosque Ranch Headquarters
Bosque Ranch Events opens the Brazos Bash today, billed as the biggest NCHA-approved premier aged event in terms of added money, running a full slate of limited age event classes and starting with the open division.
The NRCHA’s marquee futurity event, presented by Metallic Cat, kicks off in less than two weeks in Fort Worth. From horse show classes to the Western Bloodstock sale and NRCHA Foundation Big Guns in Cowtown, there’s a lot of action packed into the Snaffle Bit Futurity.
Also that week: Reined Cow Horse: NRCHA Big Guns in Cowtown Fort Worth, Texas | October 21 | Cowtown Coliseum, Historic Fort Worth Stockyards A new NRCHA Foundation fundraiser launching during the Snaffle Bit Futurity: top rodeo athletes and NRCHA professionals in a fence work showcase, competing for $30,000 in prize money with an additional $40,000 going to athlete-selected charities.
Ranch Events, Reined Cow Horse: Stock Horse of Texas World Show
Abilene, Texas | October 27–November 1
The Stock Horse World Championship, Stock Horse of Texas’s marquee year-end event, combining reining, cow work, trail and pleasure patterns into a single stock horse format.
