The Arabian Horse Association and Turner Publishing Company have teamed up to produce a 2007 calendar featuring purebred Arabian horses. It will be distributed in local bookstores and through the internet. If you would like to order one now, just click here. This beautiful calendar has photos by many of your favorite Arabian horse photographers. Get one today! (Fifteen percent of sales will benefit AHA.)

The President's Address to the AHA Annual Convention will be uploaded directly after his presentation on Thursday, November 16, 2006, and will be available from the AHA website homepage. Be sure to watch for this link!!!

Why not earn a FREE night while traveling to visit friends and family over the Thanksgiving holiday? Choice Hotels International® 's Choice Privileges® "Stay Two Separate Times. Earn A Free Night At Over 1,000 Hotels" fall promotion ends soon. Hurry, you have from now until December 15th to take advantage of this wonderful offer! Stay just two separate times at participating Comfort Inn®, Comfort Suites®, Quality Inn®, Sleep Inn®, Clarion® or MainStay Suites® hotels in the U.S., Canada, Caribbean or Mexico and earn enough points towards a future free night stay at more than 1,000 hotels. Yes, you can take advantage of this offer along with AHA's 20% discount. Simply make reservations in advance online at ChoiceHotels.com or by calling 800-258-2847. Reference both the AHA Special Rate Identification Number 00802151 and your personal Choice Privileges® identification number. Go to ChoicePrivileges.com to become a Choice Privileges® member and start earning points!

AHA will be performing additional work on its Oracle system this weekend to finalize improvements for better customer service. The system will be inactive at 6:00 p.m. Friday, November 10, 2006 and be back open for business on Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.

Halter Futurity Renominations have been mailed out. You must either renew online or snail mail your entry postmarked no later than Dec. 31, 2006. (For this year only, initial in utero Halter Futurity Nominations are not due until March 31, 2007.)

Sweepstakes prize money earned at national, regional and local shows or designated events will be paid only to the party whose name appears on the Certificate of Registration as of December 31 of the year the prize money is earned. Make sure all your paperwork is updated by year end!

Performance Futurity prize money paid at U.S. Nationals was $148,000 with the highest paid class, Arabian Western Pleasure, awarding almost $30,000.

Halter Futurity classes at U.S. Nationals paid out $219,000 over five classes, with the champion filly taking home $19,200.

Register your 2007 ACS shows now. The first 50 shows that are registered and confirmed online for 2007 will receive exclusive program gifts. Be aware that gifts are awarded based on the day your show is registered, not the actual day of the show. Even if your show is not operating until late 2007, register it now to be in the running for the gifts! Click here.

Forty-nine teams of 4-H, FFA, AHA, and collegiate youth converged in Louisville to compete at the Arabian Horse Judging Contest during the U.S. Nationals. Kids placed classes of four horses each in an attempt to match the official placings determined by a panel of carded judges. Winners took home beautiful trophy saddles from Equine Pro Tack, $7,000 in scholarships, and hundreds of other prizes. Click here for results

Kids, tell the world about your favorite Arabian horse. Nominate your four-hoofed darling for the Horse of the Month contest. Winning entries receive a model horse from youth sponsor Breyer, and a feature on the AHYA website. All it takes is a short essay and a good photo of your horse. Click here for more information.

AHYA and Sundowner have done it again! Les Stach of Calgary, Alberta, won a brand new 2006 Sundowner two-horse trailer this year for the price of $1.00. Stach's winning raffle ticket was chosen in center ring at U.S. Nationals. He will now get to choose one of two beautiful Sundowner models. Congratulations to Mr. Les Stach, and thanks to Sundowner Trailers and all who supported AHYA by purchasing a ticket.

Toss those safety pins! Show number magnets are the latest craze in show ring clothing, and they're a perfect holiday gift. Show number magnets are strong enough to hold a back number on all day long without worry. You'll never again have to poke pinholes in your show clothes! Purchase your set for just $35 from AHA, and your purchase will benefit Arabian horse youth. Click here to order.

AHA had a booth at the FFA National Convention, and demand was high for Arabian horse resources. If you know a horse group, camp, or classroom who would like to learn about Arabian horses, bring them up to speed on the Leg Up program. Just click here. If you know someone who might want to get a judging team together, click here.

Congratulations to Bob Groover of Delavan, Wis., who was drawn as the winner of Arabian Horse Magazine's FREE AD drawing held at U.S. Nationals. Bob's horse, KF Van Halen, took a Top 10 in Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Country Pleasure Driving. The horse is owned by Isabella and Elise Groover and trained by John White. Look for Bob's free ad in the upcoming December/January issue of Arabian Horse Magazine.