5/6-Year-Old Non-Pro
Laura Fenimore has had her share of ups and downs in life, but with each one her comeback has been something to shout about – most recently with her mare, Reymaniscent.
Scoring a 221 to win the Arbuckle Mountain Futurity 5/6 Year-Old Non-Pro, Fenimore found the winner’s circle to be a familiar place with the Dual Smart Rey mare, having won the 2016 Southern Cutting Futurity 4-Year-Old Unlimited Amateur and more recently watching the mare’s talents bloom once again under the training of T.J. Good.
“Last year was a really tough year for me because this mare has been with Ronnie Rice all of her life, but we’re not close enough to him now, so I decided to make a switch to T.J.,” she explained about the move to the Oklahoma trainer. “But she’s always been really good. I just had a hard time last year with my showmanship, with lots of little things, getting run over and things like that. It really shook my confidence. I wasn’t sure I even wanted to show this year.”
Good showed Reymaniscent in the Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association Futurity last October, where they were finalists after scoring a 222 in the first go and a 216 in the second. Good also showed the horse at the Arbuckle in the 5/6-Year-Old Open to a fairly disappointing 213, but the ride in the Non-Pro was “classic Laura,” whose polished style came through with “Juicy” as they worked through the herd in their first show of 2018.
“This has been more of a relief than anything because she is so talented, and I just wasn’t able to get it out of her last year,” she said. “This is a great way to start the year.”
The mare is out of Tangy Starlight (by Grays Starlight) and is a half-sister to Misplaced Cat, who Fenimore rode to the win in the Amateur during the 2010 NCHA Futurity. Misplaced Cat (by WR This Cats Smart) is an earner of nearly $75,000 and was fifth at the American Quarter Horse Association World show in the Amateur Cutting. As half-sisters, Fenimore said the two mares do share some characteristics.
“They are both very quick and fast, very athletic,” she said. “But Juicy is very much a mare and has her days where she can really try your patience. My dad named her ‘Juicy’ because that’s what she’s always been – right from the time we were halter-breaking her.”
Juicy added $5,183 to her lifetime earnings of $53,213. The duo will continue to the NCHA Super Stakes and the Breeder’s Invitational, with the possibility of an embryo or two coming from the mare for another generation.
