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For the second year in a row, Cam Essick and Loveya won the Best Little Derby in the West Derby Levels 4 and 3 Non-Pro championships, along with the Prime Time Non-Pro. • Photo by Caleb Tipton

Cam Essick and Loveya Top Derby Non-Pro in Idaho

Reining competitors traveled north to Nampa, Idaho, to compete in the Best Little Derby in the West, where 58 horse-and-rider teams were slated to show in the Derby Non-Pro. The 19th draw featured Loveya, ridden by owner/breeder Cam Essick, of Clements, California. But the draw nearly went unused. “I wasn’t confident at all going in. […]

Essick & Loveya – Can’t Hold ’Em Down

Drawing slot 66 of 68 with Loveya in the Best Little Derby in the West’s Derby Non-Pro meant Cam Essick, of Clements, California, didn’t make her run until well after midnight for the Friday finals that spilled over into the early hours of Saturday. That came after several late nights watching the foaling cam waiting […]

Blood Runs Deep at NRHA Futurity Select Yearling Sale

Cam Essick’s Pacific Range Ranch is known for its high-caliber broodmares, and that reputation was confirmed Dec. 2 when the hammer fell at $61,000 for NRHA/Markel Futurity Select Yearling Sale highest-seller Hip No. 3052, Loveya To Love Me. A yearling bay filly, Loveya To Love Me is by Equi-Stat Elite $1 Million Sire Gunnatrashya and […]