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In the Stats: Breeder’s Invitational

IntheStats 01 SlyPlaygirl JSnider13BI JOSly Playgirl and Jaime Snider • Photo by John O'Hara

Breeder’s Invitational (2003-2015)

Sly Playgirl (That Sly Cat x Taquitas Playgirl x Freckles Playboy), a 2007 mare bred by Slate River Ranch, of Weatherford, Texas, and owned by Luis De Armas, of Boca Raton, Florida, is the leading Breeder’s Invitational's (BI) money-earning horse with show earnings of $141,697. Among the mare’s BI paychecks were the Classic/Challenge Open Championship with trainer Jaime Snider and the Limited Non-Pro Championship, with De Armas riding, in 2012. Sly Playgirl’s lifetime Equi-Stat earnings total $343,307.

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Quick Tip With Tim Smith

TimSmithStaying hooked on a cow, even when the run isn't going smoothly, is a sign of courage. • Photo by Annie Lambert

Trainer and judge Tim Smith says there are sure-fire ways to improve your run content scores.

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Sannman Exceeds Expectations at His New Home

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SDP May9Sannman - A Rare Gem!

Sannman is an exciting new addition to SDP Buffalo Ranch. He is royally bred, as he is by 2016 leading sire Metallic Cat and out of the legendary producer The Smart Look, the No. 3 cutting broodmare of all-time with more than $1.8 million in produce earnings. The red roan stallion is also negative/negative on the five-panel genetic test.

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In the Money: Shrewd Breeding Buys

IntheMoney nyquist-longinesNyquist and jockey Mario Gutierrez outfinished Exaggerator in the Kentucky Derby. • Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Longines, the official watch and timekeeper of the 142nd Annual Kentucky Derby

By now, you’ve probably already heard about Nyquist’s victory in the Kentucky Derby. Many of you probably watched the race and cheered as he raced across the finish line to become the first undefeated 2-year-old champion to win the Kentucky Derby since Seattle Slew did it in 1977, the year he took the Triple Crown. But what you might not know is that while Nyquist was a relatively expensive yearling, selling for $400,000, his dam sold twice for far less.

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Starlight Kisses: Gone Too Soon

StarlightKissesFistPumpJake Telford won the 2015 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity aboard Starlight Kisses, just seven months before her death.It is never easy to lose a great horse, but when her death comes unexpectedly and long before anyone predicted, it is nothing short of devastating. The reined cow horse industry felt the shock of that blow today when Nancy Crawford-Hall’s Holy Cow Performance Horses announced that Starlight Kisses passed away April 30.

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NARHA Replaces ARBC for Arabian Reiners

Half-Arabian-TS-Mae-Gossip-and-Andrea-Fappani-won-the-Scottsdale-HA-Reining-Futurity-in-FebruaryTS Mae Gossip and Andrea Fappani were the Scottsdale Half-Arabian Reining Futurity Open Champions. • Photo by Walterberry

Originally created as an incentive program that would inspire breeders of reining horses to seriously consider the talent, athletic ability and heart of Arabian and Half-Arabians, the Arabian Reining Breeders Classic (ARBC) has been offering large cash prize incentives at major National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) events since 2014.

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In the Past: Family Legends

InthePast Bill Shorty SharonFreemanEqui-Stat Elite $5 Million Rider Bill Freeman, Freeman’s father and legendary trainer Shorty Freeman, and Freeman’s sister Sharon Freeman, who married Equi-Stat Elite $2 Million Rider Terry Riddle, of Foster, Oklahoma • Photo by Bonnie Scott

William Fredell “Bill” Freeman, unquestionably one of the cutting industry’s finest trainers and showmen, earned his final cutting paycheck on June 28, 2008, just 31 days before his untimely death on July 29 at the age of 58. Freeman died due to complications of fungal pneumonia and chronic asthma, a condition that Freeman’s father, Shorty Freeman, also died of in 1990.

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In the Blood: Brother & Sister Power!

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Heavy Duty Chex and Moonlite Chex combined to bring home three titles at the National Reining Breeders Classic (NRBC), held April 17-24 in Katy, Texas. Both horses were both bred by Hilldale Farms in Brashear, Texas. Tammye Hutton, daughters Jessicah Keller and Sarah Locker and son David Hutton are the people behind Hilldale Farms. Locker and Heavy Duty Chex marked a 225 in the finals of the Derby Level 4 Non-Pro, cementing their second consecutive win. Moonlite Chex and Keller earned two titles, winning the Novice Horse Level 2 Non-Pro and tying for first in the Novice Non-Pro.