Around Ohio 2010 Fall World Paint Show a Success for Ohio
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early 1,000 Paint horses went to Fort Worth, Texas for the 2010 Fall World Championship Paint Horse Show. For the second consecutive year, the American Paint Horse Association split their World Championship Show into two segments. The first was held in the summer, with the focus on youth classes, and the second was held November 4-13, which held events for open and amateur competitors, as well as slot classes and Breeders’ Futurities. Ohio had an extremely successful APHA World Show, with five competitors winning World Champion titles, and 11 bringing home Reserve World Champion honors. Many more were finalists and placed in the top 10. Shannon Gillespie, of Gillespie Show Horses in Piqua, Ohio was named World Champion in the BF Gold Yearling Longe Line with Painted N Bluegrass, and was also Reserve in the Yearling Longe Line. The bay tobiano filly by He Thinks Hes Special, out of Finely Twentyone is bred and owned by Lyndsy Gondeck of Versailles, Kentucky, who also won the Non-Pro Yearling Longe Line slot class at the show. Gillespie also won a total of five Reserve world Championships in 2010. Aboard BP Just Say ShesFancy, owned by Shilo and Garrett Eggers, she was Reserve World Champion in the Two Year Old Novice Horse Western Pleasure slot class. In the Two Year Old Hunter Under Saddle, Gillespie found success
with All I Wanna Do, winning her third Reserve World Championship. In Junior and Senior Hunter Under Saddle, Gillespie finished out her 2010 APHA World Show with two more Reserve World Champion titles, riding Must Be a Dream and Ina New York Minute, respectively. Gillespie’s husband, Tim Gillespie, also took home a Reserve World Championship for Ohio, aboard Tim and Kelly Klenke’s horse, Lucrative Loper. In Classic Amateur Junior Western Pleasure, Tim Snapp of New Carlisle, Ohio won Reserve World Champion honors with his own Miss Hottie, out of 23 entries. Tim’s wife, Cindy, also took home a Reserve World Championship, placing second in the Masters Amateur Junior Hunter Under Saddle with Movin Out. Another husband and wife team, Jeremy and Shannon Sullenberger of Piqua, Ohio, took home two World Champions. Jeremy and Im Suddenly Famous, took the top spot in Classic Amateur Senior Western Pleasure and Shes Inviting, shown by Shannon, won Novice Amateur Hunter Under Saddle. Also aboard Shes Inviting, Nancy Roberts earned a Reserve World Championship in Masters Amateur Senior Western Pleasure. Our final Ohio Reserve World Champion was David Eller and Tru All Star in Solid Paint-Bred Yearling Geldings, from Richwood, Ohio.
Photo courtesy of APHA.
Painted N Bluegrass, shown both by owner Lyndsy Gondeck and Shannon Gillespie of Piqua, earned top honors in Longe Line. Ohio Quarter Horse News
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