Working Cow Horse Champion/Reserve Champion Chantz Stewart
Cow Horse
The working cow horse finals featured 16 horses, and several competitors qualified on more than one of their good mounts. Morgan Holmes, Sarasota, Fla., made it back on Dunbuds Comet, Im Dun R U and Smart Shooter. Samantha Bayer, Eagle Point, Ore., qualified on Angels Apollo and Nic It Good. Zac O’Neal, Guthrie, Texas, showed both Sunshine Ingredient and Paddys Gin. And Chatnz Stewart, Cave Creek, Ariz., qualified on both Lone Star Chicolena and Shining Cielo.
After placing second in the qualifying go-round, Stewart and her 2003 buckskin mare Shining Cielo (Shining Spark x Miss Cielo x Gallo Del Cielo), bred by Carol Rose, took the Working Cow Horse World Championship with a 213.5 rein work and 223.5 fence work for a 437 total score.
First place was not enough for the 17-year-old Stewart. She also claimed the Reserve title on her other mount, 1995 sorrel gelding Lone Star Chicolena (Smart Chic Olena x Gay Freckles Rio x Colonel Freckles). The pair scored a 214.5 in the reining and a 219.5 down the fence for a total of 434.
Winning the bronze trophy in the working cow horse were Morgan Holmes and Smart Shooter (Smart Little Pistol x Dial Molly Snip x Dry Doc Dial ), who marked a 430.5 (210.5 rein/220 fence).
Cutting
Kyle Farris
Kyle Farris, Midway, Texas, was mounted on his grandfather’s good mare Bingos Mate (Smart Mate x Bobbie Gay Bingo x Bingo Hickory). The pair started on a high note, with lots of working time in the middle of the pen on their first cow. After almost loosing their second cow, Farris held nothing back and aggressively worked a third cow, ending the run with nothing left behind. The resulting 218.5 marked on Bingos Mate landed Farris his first AQHyA Championship. It was Farris’ first time at the show, and the finals were only his fourth ride on Bingo Mate, owned by his grandfather Jimmy Farris.
Bell and Mixmeastrawberrylena, who have cut to over $40,000 in National Cutting Horse Association earnings, secured the Reserve Championship with their 218 score. Coming in third with a 215.5 were Rieta Dufurrena, Gainesville, Texas, and The Boss Cat (Smooth As A Cat x Mighty Little Annie x Smart Little Lena), a 2006 gelding owned by her father, Ed Dufurrena.
Reining
Early in the week, on Aug. 9, 20 youth finalists faced off in the Reining finals. In her first time to place in the Reining top 10 at the AQHyA World Show, Danielle Cohen, 14, Terrell, Texas, rode to the Championship with a 216 on her 2004 buckskin gelding Whata Chic Magnet (Magnum Chic Dream x Im Not Blonde x Catalyst Too). Cohen laid down an aggressive run from the first draw of the finals and sat tight as her score held through the remaining 19 riders.
It was also an AQHyA top-10 first for the riders in second and third place. Winning the Reserve Championship with a 215 aboard Sweet Choc Olena (Chocolate Chic Olena x Cherokees Sugar x Golden Cherokee) was Kaitlyn Hurst of Granite Bay, Calif. Third place went to Jack Meadows, Cuba, Mo., who rode Wimpys Show Stopper (Wimpys Little Step x Pinesail x Topsail Cody) to a score of 212.5. |
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