The Lucas Oil & Protect The Harvest National Stock Horse Association (NSHA) Snaffle Bit Futurity Open was won by Duals Lucky Charm. He was trained and ridden by Kelby Phillips to a composite score of 660, winning $18,438 for owner Mike Stewart. In early 2015, Duals Lucky Charm was purchased from breeders Carolyn and Mark Murray by Will Roden. In December 2015, Roden sold the 2013 gelding to Mike and Robyne Stewart.
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Lenas Telesis (Doc O’Lena x Preliminary Plans x Colonel Freckles) is pictured with trainer Doug Jordan at the 1991 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Super Stakes. Jordan and the 1987 stallion, bred and owned by Jimmie Rogers, of Rohnert Park, California, won the event’s 4-Year-Old Open Championship and a $48,632 paycheck. Jordan, who has $615,454 in lifetime earnings, rode Lenas Telesis to an eighth-place tie in the 1990 NCHA Futurity Open finals.
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Peptos Stylish Miss (Peptoboonsmal x Stylish And Foxie x Docs Stylish Oak), a 2004 mare bred by Glenn and Debbie Drake/Big D, of Napa, California, and owned by Slate River Ranch, of Weatherford, Texas, is the leading Brazos Bash money-earning open horse with $46,500 won at the show. Pictured with Equi-Stat Elite $3 Million Rider John Mitchell, the mare tied for the 2008 Derby Open Reserve Championship, placed third in the 2009 5/6-Year-Old Open and tied for the 5/6-Year-Old Open Reserve Championship in 2010. Peptos Stylish Miss has lifetime earnings of $305,712. • Photo by Suzanne Forrest
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The Smart Look • Photo by Sarah HansenAfter leaving an inerasable mark on the cutting industry with incredible offspring earnings in excess of $1.7 million, The Smart Look was humanely euthanized the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 7. The 28-year-old mare owed the world nothing – she gave her all as a broodmare and died as the No. 3 cutting producer of all time.
Location bids are being accepted for the 2017 Zoetis AQHA Versatility Ranch Horse (VRH) and AQHA Cowboy Mounted Shooting (CMS) world championships and the AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenge Finals.The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) is soliciting host-site bids for the 2017 Zoetis AQHA Versatility Ranch Horse (VRH) and AQHA Cowboy Mounted Shooting (CMS) world championships and the AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenge Finals, which will be held in 2018. The inaugural Zoetis VRH World was held in 2008 in Denver during the National Western Stock Show. In 2011, the show was relocated to Houston, Texas, during the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo.
The tradition of using Romal Reins http://bit.ly/1Iph8q9 was started in North America by the Spanish vaqueros in the mid-1700s. Their lives depended on extremely hardy, well-trained horses to work the rank, range-bred cattle of the day. Romals, as they are called, were used on such well-trained horses because they only required a very slight movement of the hand for direction.
Electric Snow & Jordan Larson • Photo by Kristin PitzerThe Tulsa Reining Classic Derby Open, held Sept. 4 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, featured $33,000 in added money thanks to a sponsorship by Cardinal Reining Horses. Every exhibitor in the Derby received a signature Cardinal Reining Horses jacket. Several of the horses competing in the Derby had the chance at an additional $10,000 in added money in the concurrent Whizkey N Diamonds Novice Horse Derby, thanks to a partnership with Rhodes River Ranch.
Alexander Lee & Redd MapleAlthough Sept. 3 was the last day of the Idaho Cutting Horse Association (ICHA) Futurity and Aged Event, the day was packed full with six Non-Pro and Amateur finals.
