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BY JENNIFER ROBERTS
Western news
Schmersal Reining Horses has become an official NRHA Corporate Partner.
132 EQUINE
JOURNAL
| October 2013
Sarah Orsak and My Cowboy Cadillac earned the Youth All Around Harris Work Saddle. Mikaela Sundgren and Art I Perfect may have had only their third show together as a team, but they made it count by taking the All Around Amateur Harris Work Saddle. One Cool Son Of A Gun and Brookelynn Baber took the All Around Novice Youth NSBA trophy. For Rhonda Hopkins and Lotza Te Time, a neck-and-neck high point race with barnmates Katherine Joos and Forbidden Pleasure ended with Hopkins winning the NSBA bronze for All Around Novice Amateur.
Reining Horses has become an official NRHA Corporate Partner. NRHA is a worldwide organization dedicated to the promotion of the reining horse and the sport of reining. Schmersal Reining Horses is the home of NRHA Professional Craig Schmersal and Pale Face Dunnit. “We are truly excited to partner with the National Reining Horse Association,” says Schmersal. “The NRHA is at the core of my family’s livelihood. Without the NRHA, we would not be blessed with the success we’ve enjoyed in the reining industry.”
CONDOLENCES PARTNERING UP The National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) is pleased to announce that Schmersal
We were sad to hear that Joe Kirk Fulton, a leading breeder of Quarter Horse racehorses for more than 50 years and the
breeder of legendary cutting performer and leading sire Peppy San Badger, passed away on Thursday, August 1, 2013.
NEW ADDITION Congratulations to Gina and Rich Cormier of Sebring Shores, FL, who recently announced that they will be making little Richie a big brother soon. We can’t wait to meet their new addition!
COWGIRL UP Dr. Eleanor M. Green, dean of veterinary medicine at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, will join 211 previous honorees when she is officially inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame at its
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PHOTO: CAROLINE VENTURA
The 2013 Show Your Colors American Paint Horse Association (APHA) Show announced all-around winners from the show, which was held preceding the National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA) Breeders Championship Futurity and World Championship Show on August 10-11, 2013. The judges for the show were Tom McBeath, Laura Kathryn Gilmer, Kendra Weis, and Brendan Brown. Taking home the Open All Around Harris Work Saddle was the sorrel overo, Shez Eye Candy, owned by Tracy and Suzanne Rogers. Ridden by Ryan Painter, Brad Ost, and Beth Case, the nine-year-old mare also competes with a youth rider in the 14-18 events.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF SCHMERSAL REINING HORSES
SHOWING THEIR COLORS