Appointed the Chief Racing Officer for the AQHA in 2016, Janet VanBebber oversees the development, management, and coordination of the American Quarter Horse Association’s racing department, as well as playing an integral role in the fostering of the Racing Challenge and other like programs designed to promote American Quarter horse Racing worldwide.
The Janet VanBebber story is truly a tail of turning tragedy into triumph and out of her challenges produced Champions. As the co-owner of VanBebber Race Stables in Ledbetter, Texas she overcame every obstacle one could on their climb to notoriety, from debilitating injuries to painful personal loss and did so with absolute grace and poise and continued to establish herself as one of the most accomplished and accredited trainers in the industry.
Janet VanBebber not only made AQHA history at just over a thousand wins, but she did so yielding some of the most notable, record-breaking, horserace champions in the history of the sport such as 3x Champion of Champions winner, Tailor Fit, whom, almost 2 decades after his last race, continues to hold his ranking as one of the breed’s top money earners.
Janet retired briefly in 2012 for an other passion in her life, her beautiful daughter, Taylor Anne, before returning to Texas’ Horse Racing scene when instated as Chief Racing Officer for the AQHA in 2016. She’s been the recipient of numerous distinguished honors such as the 2002 AQHA Mildred n. Vessels Special Achievement Award and tonight we’d like to honor her achievements once more by inducting her into the 2022 Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
The Janet VanBebber story is truly a tail of turning tragedy into triumph and out of her challenges produced Champions. As the co-owner of VanBebber Race Stables in Ledbetter, Texas she overcame every obstacle one could on their climb to notoriety, from debilitating injuries to painful personal loss and did so with absolute grace and poise and continued to establish herself as one of the most accomplished and accredited trainers in the industry.
Janet VanBebber not only made AQHA history at just over a thousand wins, but she did so yielding some of the most notable, record-breaking, horserace champions in the history of the sport such as 3x Champion of Champions winner, Tailor Fit, whom, almost 2 decades after his last race, continues to hold his ranking as one of the breed’s top money earners.
Janet retired briefly in 2012 for an other passion in her life, her beautiful daughter, Taylor Anne, before returning to Texas’ Horse Racing scene when instated as Chief Racing Officer for the AQHA in 2016. She’s been the recipient of numerous distinguished honors such as the 2002 AQHA Mildred n. Vessels Special Achievement Award and tonight we’d like to honor her achievements once more by inducting her into the 2022 Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame.