Two Butler County residents finished in the top 10 in ranch sorting this month during the FedEx Open competition at the American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Niki Hemphill of Prospect competed on Houston Hickory, a 1997 Bay American quarter horse gelding.

Louis Saggione III, also of Prospect, rode The Colonels Hickory, a 2000 Bay American Quarter Horse stallion.

The AQHA World Championship Show is the largest, richest single-breed world championship horse show, with more than $2.6 million awarded to 3,303 competitors from 48 states, six Canadian provinces, Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom. To qualify for the invitational, horses must have earned a predetermined number of points in AQHA-approved shows between Aug. 1, 2006, and July 31.

The show will air nationwide at 5 p.m. Jan. 12 on NBC, Channel 11.