Our Purpose

To encourage, foster and promote equestrian activities

The USA Equestrian Sportsman's Charter states, "Sport is something done for the fun of doing it and it ceases to be a sport when it becomes a business only .. The exploitation of sport for profit alone kills the spirit and retains only the husk and semblance of the sport.  The qualities of frankness, courage, and sincerity which mark the good sportsman in private life shall mark the discussion of his interests at the show.  Good manners of sport are fundamentally important.  The whole structure of sport is not only preserved from the absurdity of undue importance, but is justified by a kind of romance which animates it, and by the positive virtues of courage, patience, good temper and unselfishness which are demanded by the code"

It is the intent of the AHS and its Board to maintain these fundamental values as the reason for our existence; that sportsmanship, and the competition as it relates to the equestrian sport, be experienced and embraced both in and out of the ring by the entire membership, young and old.