Photo of Joan Schroeder and Blazing Hot

Joan Schroeder has been an active member of the AQHA Professional Horsemen Committee since 1995. She and her husband Robbie have shown Quarter Horses since they were teenagers.

Joan is the life blood of Schroeder Ranch and is well known for breeding outstanding performance horses. Hard work, dedication, and love of great horses has helped her achieve many of her goals.

GoHorseShow.com asks, "What’s the most dominant performance you have ever witnessed in the show pen?”

Carrie (Russom) Quraishi, 2006 AQHA World Champion, recalls being a young girl sitting in the stands in Ohio.

“The most dominant performance that I remember was watching Blazing Hot and Joan Schroeder win the 3-Year Old Open Western Pleasure Derby at the Congress in 1995,” she recalls. “I was pretty young and I was in awe of the beautiful bay horse that was the best loper I had ever seen. I remember that after the announcer had called the individual judges' cards, someone handed Ryan Schroeder, who had just turned four (he’s 18 now), over the rail to Joan and she put him in the saddle with her. When they announced Joan and Blazing Hot as the winner, they loped down and Ryan steered the way to get their awards. I think I remember this moment so much because it was a big deal then for a woman to win such a male dominated class such as the pleasure, but also because I knew then what a special horse Blazing Hot was and he was especially ‘on’ that day.”
Blaze was also Reserve Champion in the Junior Western Pleasure that year. The following year, in 1996, he was crowned AQHA World Champion in the Junior Western Riding with Robbie Schroeder and mere hours later was named the World Champion in the Junior Western Pleasure. Ryan was aboard to gather both of those trophies as well. “We were very blessed to have shared those precious moments as a family,” states Joan Schroeder today.