Joe Richard
- At age 74, Joe Richard of Garland, Texas,
isn’t letting his age come between him and his Appaloosas. He
began showing on the Appaloosa circuit in 1982 and won National
and World champion halter gelding titles that year. Now Joe
has more than 50 National and World championships and numerous
other regional high-point and year-end honors.
Joe feels it’s important to be involved in every aspect of the
breed. He’s served as a director on the national board, as rules
committee chairman, trail committee chairman and finance committee
chairman. Joe served as president of the Appaloosa Cutting Horse
Association for five years, is the current treasurer of the
club and has sponsored the association for 15 years. Joe is
also the treasurer of the Appaloosas Youth Foundation, has been
on the board of directors for both the Dal-Worth and Texas Appaloosa
Clubs from 1983 to the present, and continually sponsors various
year-end awards.
Joe also supports ApHC trail riding programs. He’s been on the
Club’s trail ride committee for 12 years and has ridden all 13
segments of the Chief Joseph Trail Ride, retiring as a scout
in 2003. Joe continues to ride the Apache Land Trail Ride in
Oklahoma each year as a scout.
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