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Reyd and Lloyd Cox
Reyd (Dual Rey x Merada Missy x
Freckles Merada), owned by Three
Trees Ranch, Newnan, Ga., and
ridden by Lloyd Cox, won the West
Texas Futurity Open on Friday,
Aug. 21, in Amarillo, Texas.
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Reymanator and Zane Davis, 38,
Whitehall, Mont., prevailed in a challenging cow-work final on Sunday,
Aug. 23, to win the National Stock
Horse Association Futurity in Paso
Robles, Calif., for the Championship
and $24,000 purse.
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Jay McLaughlin won the SWRCHA
Summer Classic Futurity Open on A
Shiner Named Sioux, owned by Carol
Rose, Gainesville, Texas, and the
Derby Open on CD Dee Vee Dee, also
owned by Rose.
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Carlos Banuelos, 34, a career winner
of more than $630,000 as a cutting
horse rider, was found dead near
his home in Jacksboro, Texas, early
Tuesday morning, Aug. 25.
A
familiar face on the cutting landscape will have a
new home and new dates in
2010 as the Bonanza Cutting
is scheduled for Feb. 12-20 at the
Diamond W Arena in Alvarado, Texas.
The Bonanza, which is conducted by
the Paul Crumpler family of Wichita
Falls, Texas, was held for 27 years at the
Taylor County Expo Center in Abilene,
Texas.
While Paul Crumpler said the venue
change hopefully will draw more cutters
to the Bonzana, he is more pleased that
the event was given show dates formerly held by the National Cutting Horse Paul and Barbara Crumpler
Association World Championship
and Tony McMillan [recently retired Expo
Finals. The NCHA Finals for the Open divimanager] have been great. Tony has done a
sion and the Non-Pro division will be held
heck of a job managing that facility. We just
alongside the NCHA Futurity, the industry’s
thought that moving closer to Fort Worth and
premier event for 3-year-olds, Nov. 24-28 in
Weatherford would help us.”
Fort Worth.
The Diamond W, a 200-acre facility owned
The Bonanza had succeeded despite going
by Lisa McCool, has a 130-foot by 260-foot
head-to-head or being held very close to dates
arena, 234 indoor stalls, a 50-by-100 indoor
occupied by different shows. In recent years,
warm-up arena in the stall area and an 80-byit was held at the same time as the NCHA
100 indoor warm-up arena in the Expo area.
Eastern National Championships in Jackson,
The facility also has a restaurant and a
Miss.
cantina.
“I think I had to have them [the dates] to
“It [the arena] may be tighter than Abilene,
survive with all the shows that have come into
but with the practice pen, warm-up arena and
existence,” Crumpler said. “When we started,
restaurant all under one roof, it will be more
all we had were the national [NCHA] shows
convenient,” McCool said. “We’re excited.”
and Augusta [Futurity].”
The PK (Possum Kingdom) Cutting Horse
Crumpler stressed that the move had nothAssociation stages some of its shows at the
ing to do with his or the event’s relationship
Diamond W, which also hosts a wide range of
with anybody in Abilene, including noted
activities, including barrel racing, team roping,
restaurateurs Joe Allen and Sharon Allen.
shows for other equine disciplines, monster
“Abilene has been good to us,” he said. “Our
truck shows and motocross races. —REE
relationship with Joe Allen, Sharon Allen
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Out ‘N’ About
Absolutely a candidate for the “Greatest Dog
Department”: Meet Zulu, constant companion and
premier service dog to Tom Sumpter, Williston, Fla.
father/daughter team of
“Family Tradition” The
dynamicandduo,Mikereining’s
Catherine
Hancock, Rocky Mount, N.C.
Georgia Grins
Reiners were all smiles as they enjoyed a little relaxation and camaraderie
at the Sliding Summer Classic held Aug. 13-16 in Perry, Ga.
Multiple NRHA World Champion Shannon Rafacz,
Citra, Fla., is riding aged-event horses. She earned
multiple Derby Non-Pro paychecks on her Repeat
Fine Footwork.
There were lots of puppies to choose
from in Perry. Kate Stewart, Dawson,
Ga., is bringing this cutie home!
Shawn Flarida and Bill Horn totally enjoyed
Shawn’s win in the Dorminy Plantation Futurity on
Gunnatrashya, a fabulous colt by Gunner out of
Natrasha by Trashadeous.
Jose Seutter, Anthony, Fla., rode Julio
Ardizon’s Haidas Shining Spark to
third place in the Intermediate Open,
second in the Limited Open and to
No. 1 in the Level 1 Open divisions of
the Dorminy Plantation Futurity.
Great back rubs are now part of the daily show
routine for newlyweds Jessicah and Jason Torpey,
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Princeton, Ky.
On call 24 hours every day of the Sliding Summer Classic:
Ronnie Wayne, Taylors, S.C., was the NRHA Show Representative.
What’s not to
smile about?
Marcia Walker,
Dandridge,
Tenn., rode her
Kickit In The
Bud to the head
of the class in
four Non-Pro
divisions of the
Bill Horn Derby.
Genuine Talent
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2003 NRCHA Open
Hackamore
World
Champion,
2008
NRCHA Open Bridle
World Champion and
the 2008 AQHA World
Champion in Senior
Heeling, shown by Jay
Holmes for his family’s
Triple J Ranch.
Little Red Chickadee,
a 2001 mare by Gallo
Del Cielo, won two 2008
AQHA Amateur Select
World Championships
with her owner, Rodger
Coday – Tie-Down
Roping and Heeling.
She has 291.5 Open
performance points and
88.5 Amateur performance points.
Bobby Lewis rode Genuine Redbud to the 1995 AQHA Superhorse title.
In all, Genuine
Owner Eric Storey is standing beside the mare.
Redbud has 12 AQHAregistered foals, with two not yet of perforIt In The Bud was her first foal, and he set
mance age. In addition to the six offspring
the pace. In 1996, she produced Dun It Big,
that have $277,897 in Equi-Stat earnings,
by Hollywood Dun It, a stallion that would
her foals have garnered 926.5 AQHA Open
make his mark in the cow horse arena. With
performance points and 107 Amateur perforEqui-Stat earnings of $82,870 and 576
mance points. —SM
AQHA Open performance points, he was the
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lenty of present-day reiners and cow
horse exhibitors know Nic It In The
Bud. The 1997 stallion by Reminic
was a successful performer, earning $148,765
in reining and cow horse competition. Todd
Bergen showed him to the Open finals
of the 2000 National Reined Cow Horse
Association Snaffle Bit Futurity and National
Reining Horse Association Futurity. In 2001,
he won the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Stakes
and NRCHA Derby. In 2003, he was the
NRCHA Open Bridle Reserve World
Champion and made the Open finals at the
National Reining Breeders Classic.
Nic It In The Bud already has proven to be
a successful sire, with 26 of his get earning a
total of $465,737 – and that’s with just four
small foal crops of performance age, including 3-year-olds.
But behind every great stallion is a great
mare, and in Nic It In The Bud’s case that
would be his dam, Genuine Redbud.
The 1991 mare was bred by Terry Stuart
Forst, Waurika, Okla. She was sired by
Genuine Doc and out of Seven S Margarita,
a daughter of Stuart Ranch’s stallion Son O
Leo. Since 1994, Genuine Redbud has been
owned by Eric Storey, Henagar, Ala., who
also owns Nic It In The Bud.
Storey wasted no time putting Genuine
Redbud’s talent to the test. In 1995, she was
the American Quarter Horse Association
World Champion in Junior Heading and
Reserve World Champion in Junior TieDown Roping, and took third in Junior
Heeling. Those placings earned her the
AQHA Superhorse award as a 4-year-old.
The mare’s list of AQHA accomplishments
fills more than a page, and includes numerous high-point awards in roping events, top
10 World Show finishes and another Reserve
World Championship, in 1998 in Senior
Tie-Down Roping. In all, she earned 1,238
Open performance points and 74 Amateur
performance points. And Genuine Redbud
wasn’t just talented, she was pretty: She has
32.5 Open halter points to her credit.
Thanks to embryo transfer, Genuine
Redbud was already a mama by the time
she was finishing up her show career. Nic
Genuine Redbud’s Offspring
HORSE
NIC IT IN THE BUD DUN IT BIG
LIGHTS R RED
ROOSTERS REDHOT
THIS CHICS RED
LIL RED CHICKADEE
GRAND TOTAL EARNINGS
$148,765
$82,870
$33,449 $8,881 $2,726
$1,205
$277,897
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Among cutting’s top 10 all-time moneyearners, Smart Little Lena (No. 2, $743,275)
and Docs Okie Quixote (No. 8, $635,707)
launched great careers with NCHA Futurity
Open victories. Little Badger Dulce (No.
7, $668,461) and Quintan Blue (No. 9,
$609,140) also finished as NCHA Futurity
Open Reserve Champions, while Meradas
Little Sue (No. 3, $730,552) and Cash
Quixote Rio (No. 10, $593,460) started out
as NCHA Futurity Open finalists.
Cutting’s other four all-time top earners –
Red White And Boon (No. 1, $922,063),
Sister CD (No. 4, $700,746), Gun Smokes
Wimpy (No. 5, $682,611), and Dual Rey
Me (No. 6, $682,138) – combined to earn
$6,385 in their not-so-spectacular 3-year-old
seasons.
Two-time Open World Champion Dual Rey
Me earned $1,950 through his 4-year-old
season. Debbie Patterson’s future Non-Pro
World Champion Gun Smokes Wimpy had
also earned less than $2,000 by the time he
turned 5.
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and approximately $700,000.
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witching
methods
of control
from holding a cow
to chasing one,
National Cutting
Horse Association
Dustin Adams with his
wife, Deena, and younger
Non-Pro Hall of
brother, Dusty
Fame cutter Dustin
Adams, 29, Dublin, Texas, recently demonstrated his versatile talents by winning in the
roping pen.
Adams claimed both first and second place in
an invitational Switch-end Roping, held in conjunction with Adams’ brother, Randon Adams,
and bride Audrey’s wedding reception the end
of July near Craig, Colo. He defeated his brothers as well as a number of Professional Rodeo
Cowboys Association ropers entered in the
event.
Adams and his younger brothers, Randon,
2008 PRCA World Champion Heeler; Jason,
National Finals Rodeo qualifier; and Austin, a
high school all-around champion; work together
at their family’s Western States Ranches, owned
by their parents, Wes, founder of the MillionHeir
stallion incentive, and elizabeth Adams. —TL
“
We never go to these pre-futurities
thinking we have to win. It’s more of getting
ready for the big dance.
”
– Ginger Schmersal on preparing for the National Reining Horse
Association Futurity Non-Pro
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American
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the singing of
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anthem at
the start of
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Retro perspective
Doc’s Lynx
1969
Year that
Doc’s Lynx was born.
8
Number of foals
in his first foal crop, in 1973.
DiSTRiBuTeD By FeATuRe THiS SyNDiCATe
205 Number of foals in his
biggest foal crop, in 1980.
$595,310
Earnings of Rey
Lynx, the highest-earning foal by
Doc’s Lynx.
$7,997,192
Money earned
by maternal grand offspring of
Doc’s Lynx, the most successful of
whom is Shania Cee ($406,697).
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