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The Southwest Reining Horse Association Futurity, held Oct. 19-24 in Ardmore, Okla., ended in a tie in the Open division between All In Wrangler, shown by Dell Hendricks, and Leonard Tag, ridden by Cody Sapergia.

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Due to the outbreak of equine piroplasmosis in the state of Texas, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has asked the United States Department of Agriculture to suspend the issuance or endorsement of export certificates for horses and other equines originating from the state of Texas.

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Rick Clark, Catlettsburg, Ky., scored big at the All American Quarter Horse Congress, Columbus, Ohio.

“I won three Congress trophies, one [NRHA]

Lawson bronze, one [NRHA] Morrison, three Congress medallions, three Congress [Championship] jackets and a lot of money. I might have to get that third jacket upgraded to leather,” Clark laughed. “I’ve shown here many times, but this is the first time I won at Congress. It was enough for a lifetime.”

Clark won the $1,000-added NRHA Novice Horse Non-Pro and the AQHA Amateur Reining on Chicoutimi (Nijomi Sonny Reb x Ladys Ultra Chic x Smart Chic Olena). He won the $3,000-added NRHA Non-Pro class on Wimps Chocolate Chip (Wimpys Little Step x Tejana Chic x Smart Chic Olena). Both horses are owned by Clark Reining Horses LLC.

Clark is coached by NRHA Three Million Dollar Rider Shawn Flarida, Springfield, Ohio. Flarida is known to wear a green shirt

– every time he walks into the show pen. Clark started sporting a green shirt earlier this year. “That’s my secret,” he said of his Congress success.

Actually, Clark is a seasoned competitor. In 1994, he was inspired to take up reining by two longtime friends and avid NRHA com-petitors, Rick Ramsey and Joe Wolfe.

Clark, who owns a convenience store chain known as Clark’s Pump N Shop, jumped right in. He earned his first NRHA paycheck in 1995. He now has more than $130,000 in Equi-Stat earnings.

Clark also followed the lead of Ramsey and Wolfe by becoming active in the Ohio Valley Reining Horse Association. He has served on the OVRHA board for many years, served as the association’s president, and is a very active fundraiser for the affiliate. Clark was elected to represent the Northeast Region in the 2008 elections and now serves on the NRHA Board.

Rick Clark is an avid reiner, involved in all aspects of the sport. Now he can add “Multiple Congress Champion” to his résumé! —PF

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Buffalo Ranch Gives Official statement

RShane Plummer, president of

Buffalo Ranch in Fort Worth, Texas, has given an official statement regarding the guilty pleas of his dad, David Plummer, and brother, Spencer Plummer, in regards to the operation of a fraudulent tax shelter.

Shane’s comments:“Buffalo Ranch is not affected …

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FULL HOUSE It was a full house on a beautiful day in Whitt, Texas.

Big Sale Weekend

Two major industry sales were held in mid-October: the Rock Creek

Ranch dispersal sale on Oct. 16 in Whitt, Texas; and the Legacy

Reining Breeders Sale on Oct. 17 in Aubrey, Texas.

COME AND GET IT! Lunch was served for everyone at the Rock Creek Ranch dispersal sale.

CAPTURE THE MOMENT Peta Fumhemmer takes video of the sale.

QUITE A CROWD There was a big crowd at the sale, which was situated in a specially designed area (complete with grass and carpet) inside the arena at Green Valley Ranch.

FULL HOUSE It was a full house on a beautiful day in Whitt, Texas.

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PET SQUIRREL, with Roger Wagner on board, was the high-selling horse at the Rock Creek Ranch dispersal sale. The mare sold for $400,000 to Jo Goertz.

POOSMAL sold for $235,000: (left to right) The mare’s new owner, Floyd Miller of Cottonwood Springs Ranch, Jim Vangilder, Roger Wagner, Grace Vangilder and Marsha Vangilder.

THE NRHyA KIDS were on hand for a fundraiser: (left to right) Jordan Donnelly, Emily Winegar (NRHyA historian), Cash Bridges (NRHyA president) and Colleen Bridges.

GUNNS AWAY was the high seller at the Legacy Reining Breeders Sale: (left to right) Tim McQuay, Don, Travis, Hochstatter, Tracer Gilson (purchased the horse on behalf of American West Reiners) and Rodney Rosenauer.

TV INTERVIEW Wallis Winegar is interviewed by Lee Schneider from Wide World of Horses.

GAIL HOLMES signs for a new horse.

It’s that time of year again. As the leaves are changing, cutters are gear-ing up for the big one in Fort Worth,

but many still have several stops before they will be rolling into Cow Town. Two big events held at opposite ends of the country started this week and will run through Halloween weekend. The Southern and PCCHA futuri-ties in October are among the season’s final 3-year-old cuttings before the elite NCHA Futurity begins next month.

The PCCHA Futurity, which is offering $413,000 in added money, kicked off Oct. 22 and goes through Nov. 1. in Paso Robles, Calif., while the Southern Futurity, with $100,000-added, began Oct. 26 in Jackson, Miss., and ends on Halloween day.

Many Fort Worth-bound rid-ers, whether they are wine tasting in California or enjoying some home cookin’ in Jackson, are schooling their NCHA Futurity mounts while wrapping up the year with their seasoned show horses and other limited-age horses at the Southern and PCCHA.

The Southern Futurity, known for crawfish boils and lots of down-home cookin’, had its first run in 1983 and over the years has increased in size and payouts, now offering purses worth at least a quarter-million each October.

While entries at the Southern Futurity were down last year, event offi-cials said that their 2008 pre-futurity works were a huge hit and those are taking place again this year.

Fresis Desi, a Fresnos Skipper mare, won the first 1983 Southern Futurity Open with Steve Buster. The pair marked a 221 for a $9,616 payday.

Over the years, the Southern Futurity has paid out a total of $4,966,503 to 10,128 entries. The biggest turnout for the show was in 2000, when it catered to 733 entries for a record payout of $307,921. The show had not seen an entry list as small as last year’s 377 since 1994, when the list topped at 343.

On the West Coast, the PCCHA

Futurity opened its doors in 1982. Gal O Nu Bar and Leon Harrel were crowned as the event’s first Futurity Open Champions after they posted a 219 in the finals for a $50,000 check.

The show’s entries skyrocketed in 2008, climbing from 496 in 2007 to 868. Entries were slightly down last

year, at 817, but the event still man-aged to reach $961,132 in purse money. The show’s record payout was in 2004 when the total prize checks totalled an impressive $1,060,478.

Still left on the futurity schedule in November are the Utah and Texas futu-rities, which run through Nov. 8. —JRH

Equi-Stat, a division of Cowboy Publishing Group and Quarter Horse News, compiles and researches money earned within equine performance events

and then enters this information into its database for use in producing statistical reports. These performance events include cutting, reining, reined cow horse as well as barrel racing, pleasure horse and ranch versatility. Equi-Stat’s statistical information helps performance horse events present a more accurate picture of their particular event to entrants, breeders, owners and potential sponsors. For more information about Equi-Stat and what it might do for you, visit equistat.com.

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PCCHA FUTURITY HISTORYYear Entries Added $ Total Purse1982 167 $50,000 $211,410 1983 200 $60,000 $271,553 1984 258 $54,998 $292,950 1985 286 $55,000 357,4121986 316 $165,000 $442,7151987 337 $140,000 $405,6281988 355 $175,073 $433,5561989 414 $304,500 $602,6531990 308 $135,000 $335,9021991 377 $150,000 $382,683 1992 372 $197,804 $446,4301993 378 $188,294 $447,999 1994 402 $60,000 $389,3551995 415 $178,000 $404,3221996 441 $208,000 $464,7221997 417 $228,000 $483,5111998 483 $313,700 $609,2261999 529 $312,000 $619,2642000 616 $363,500 $736,8702001 603 $493,779 $910,6722002 712 $428,832 $960,8842003 747 $464,953 $1,032,4082004 728 $517,608 $1,060,4782005 612 $499,756 $965,1652006 496 $459,077 $823,8992007 868 $447,935 $1,007,0932008 817 $429,185 $961,132TOTAL 12,626 $7,082,994 $16,059,662

Peptos Stylish Pancho and Craig Thompson were the 2008 Southern Futurity Open Champions.

Bearly Nuf Taz and Morgan Cromer picked up last year’s PCCHA Futurity Open title.

Year Entries Added $ Total Purse1983 n/a n/a $54,278 1984 146 $50,000 $125,600 1985 184 n/a $134,997 1986 141 $45,000 $109,239 1987 183 $22,015 $70,659 1988 169 $23,066 $64,664 1989 305 $25,762 $102,117 1990 335 $28,983 $111,286 1991 387 $35,000 $135,134 1992 320 $44,000 $122,848 1993 338 $46,500 $125,586 1994 343 $45,500 $139,311 1995 391 $50,500 $150,028 1996 460 $67,000 $201,585 1997 484 $79,000 $223,515 1998 576 $86,786 $251,598 1999 698 $106,941 $298,355 2000 733 $105,361 $307,921 2001 713 $101,000 $306,351 2002 498 $101,000 $285,008 2003 527 $104,895 $283,055 2004 560 $102,000 $284,466 2005 396 $100,000 $255,240 2006 459 $100,000 $282,497 2007 405 $100,000 $263,715 2008 377 $101,000 $277,449 TOTAL 10,128 $1,671,309 $4,966,503

SOUTHERN CUTTING FUTURITY HISTORY

Zane Davis, 38, rode

Reymanator to win the National Reined Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity ear-lier this month and the National Stock Horse Association Futurity in August. While he’s certainly an up-and-coming professional trainer, this Montana cowboy learned his performance horse craft the hard way – without apprenticeships, jobs with trainers or extensive show time

“I came in with whatever I could learn from the VCR, first,” Davis said.

He grew up riding young race-horses, rodeo bucking horses and just about every kind of horse imag-inable. By the time he started with cow horses and cutters, Davis had years of practical and not-so-easy experience in the saddle. He spent a lot of time developing his tech-nique on ranch horses before enter-ing a show.

Once he decided to try his hand in the show pen, it didn’t take long to realize success. Within two years, he was an NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open finalist and had qualified for the Open semifinals at the NCHA Futurity.

Along the way, Davis was offered and took advice from fellow trainers and friends Don Murphy, Dee Craig, Eduardo Ribeiro, Russ Westfall and Phil Hanson, among others.

“Don’t do it the way I did it,” Davis said. “Go find whoever you think is the best guy that might fit your style and learn from that guy.

“If you do it the way I did it, you might get lucky. I got lucky because I had Sandy; but you might not have those same opportunities. It’s hard to make a living in this business if you don’t have a few breaks.”

Read more about Zane Davis in the Nov. 1, 2009 issue of Quarter Horse News.

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In recent years, Ranch Horse Versatility classes have become popular as another avenue for horse owners to exhibit their horses. When it comes to ranch horse versatility associations, such as the American Stock Horse Association, it’s important that the owner/rider enjoy the experience and have the opportunity to do well in competition.

Many ASHA owner/riders work with horses they already own, but more and more are seeking out horses to buy. No matter where you’re shopping, the most important thing is that the horse fits you as a rider.—Breanne Hill

Ranch horse Versatility horses

ASHA co-founder B.F. Yeates recommends conducting the fol-

lowing quick evaluation before you make a purchase:

1 Walk, trot and lope the horse. Check his extended trot and his

lope, and check his quietness. This will give you an idea of

what you’re dealing with as far as a riding foundation goes.

2 Pay attention to attitude. When you’re rid-

ing the horse, pay close attention to his

attitude and disposition. He needs to be quiet

and cooperative to be a versatility horse.

3 Test the cow and cutting horses. “If some-

one is advertising this horse as a cow

horse, ask to work a cow on him,” Yeates

suggests. “If they’re telling you you’re buying

cow training, you need to see what that horse

has got.”Remember that cow-related experience is

not necessary for a versatility prospect. Don’t

discount a horse if he doesn’t have previous

cow experience. This, too, can be taught.

4 Stay within your budget. How do you know if the price tag on a

potential versatility horse is fair? You don’t.

In the current market, you can probably, on the average, pur-

chase a finished versatility horse for between $5,000 and $25,000

and a good prospect for between $3,500 and $5,000.

FOR OwNeRs:

After you buy a prospect, or if you’re working with your own horse, there are several educational opportunities, or clinics, available through ASHA. Yeates acknowledges that some people still may need to take their horses to professionals for help, but most can learn what they need to know at the monthly clinics and teach their horses themselves.

FOR BUyeRs:

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Clinician Clinton Anderson,

Stephenville, Texas, will bring his brand of Downunder Horsemanship to the NRHA Futurity to present a training clinic from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, in Arena 6 at Oklahoma State Fair Park. The clinic includes a special appearance by NRHA Three Million Dollar Rider Shawn Flarida, whose Equi-Stat earnings now top and Wimpys Little Step, the stallion Flarida rode to the 2002 NRHA and is now an NRHA Million Dollar Sire. And it will be a lucky day for some-one, as paid admission to the clinic makes attendees eligible to win a test ride on Wimpys Little Step (although age restrictions do apply). Tickets, at $25, go on sale in November at www.nrha.com. Youth 18 and under get in free with a member-ship card or clothing showing an affili-ation with a youth organization.

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