Topsail Whiz

Topsail Whiz’s top money-earning foal is 2000 gelding The Great Whiz (out of Shirleys Folly x Great Pine). Ridden by Duane Latimer and bred/owned by Lance Griffin, Ardmore, Okla., The Great Whiz was the 2003 National Reining Horse Association Futurity Open Champion and the 2004 National Reining Breeders Classic Open Reserve Champion. The Great Whiz’s earnings total $273,969.

The sire’s No. 2 earner is Easy Otie Whiz (out of Miss Poco Easy x My Lucero). Loomis bred the 1999 stallion, who is owned by Bobby Cook/Outwest Stallion Station, Scottsdale, Ariz. Easy Otie Whiz was a top-five Open finisher at the 2002 NRHA Futurity and 2003 NRHA Derby with Duane Latimer. In 2006, Matt Mills rode Easy Otie Whiz to win the United States Equestrian Federation Open Championship, qualifier for the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games. The stallion has $233,611 in earnings.

Topsail Whiz’s No. 3 money-earning foal with $194,495 and his highest earner to date for 2011 with $68,696 is Carrie Rhodes’/CDR Farm’s 2006 stallion Whizkey N Diamonds (out of Princess In Diamonds x Shining Spark).

Topsail Whiz with Bob and Pam Loomis

Loomis not only bred Topsail Whiz, but also showed him to first place in the 1990 Southwest Reining Horse Association Futurity Open, third in that year’s NRHA Futurity Open and fourth in the 1991 NRHA Derby Open. The pair earned $57,1778 together. Topsail Whiz was also the dominant factor that carried Loomis to the top of the reining breeders list time and time again.