Janet Van Bebber- AQHA Chief Racing Officer on Along For The Ride

Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani

Jim Essick

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Janet VanBebber is the Chief Racing Officer for the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). VanBebber is responsible for planning, directing and coordinating the racing department, Racing Challenge and related programs. Janet plays a key role in developing and implementing programs and objectives to promote the advancement of Quarter Horse racing across the globe.
VanBebber’s resume boasts a long and successful career training and racing American Quarter Horses. The former owner of VanBebber Racing Stables of Ledbetter, Texas, she has a long history of involvement with American Quarter Horses and Quarter Horse racing and is well known as being one of the industry’s most accomplished trainers.
In 2011, she became the first female trainer to eclipse the 1,000th career win mark and she is the leading female trainer by money earned. Her resume also included being the recipient of the 2002 AQHA Mildred n. Vessels Special Achievement Award. Her career includes training world champion TAILOR FIT, who remains ranked as one of the breed’s top money earners-15 years after his final race.
In addition to owning VanBebber Racing Stables of Ledbetter, Texas, Janet has been on the board of directors for both the Texas Quarter Horse Association and the Texas HBPA, while also owning and managing other horse related enterprises.

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0:13.0	A Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Along for the Ride. I'm Andrea, Tuttle's with me, as always, and I'm excited to bring you our first racehorse trainer today. Tuto and I have been wanting to get somebody
0:39.0	from the racehorse industry on this podcast. I think it's something that's super interesting that I
0:43.8	don't know really anything about, but I sure enjoy it. And we're just trying to get our foot in the
0:49.1	door, and I didn't think of anybody better than Janet Van Beber. Janet is the sister of John Newcomb, which you guys
0:55.6	know as part of our podcast and he's my veterinarian. I got to know Janet and talked to her a few
1:01.1	years ago, and I asked John if he thought that she'd be interested in getting on the podcast,
1:05.2	so the minute we talked to her. She was super interesting to listen to. She has a lot of great
1:10.1	things to talk about, so I figured you guys would enjoy it.
1:13.4	Janet is not just a trainer, but she's the chief racing officer for American Quarter Horse Association.
1:20.0	And she's just being responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating a lot of racing departments.
1:25.3	So she has a lot of knowledge on what's going on.
1:27.8	Her resume just both a long and successful career, training and racing quarter horses.
1:33.6	She was the former owner of Van Beaver Racing Stables in Texas, and she's just, I don't know,
1:39.5	she's just been involved in the industry for a long time. She became in 2011 the first female to eclipse the 100th career win mark, and she's the
1:48.4	leading female trainer by money earner.
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