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FEATURED ARTICLES Q & A with Lenell Dean.............................. Cover LQHBA Insider....................... Cover Breeding Program at Newtown Farm........................ Cover Take Time to Plan Travel Time.......................................5 ADR Barrel Horse.......................... 11 Bailey Carroll...................................25 LSU - “The Dummy Foal”...........39 EMCC to be represented at the College NFR...................................45 Meet Charlotte Stemmans Clavier of the LTBA....................................51
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Q & A with Lenell Dean
By Barbara Newtown
Lenell, competitors at shows and rodeos from the East Coast to Oklahoma have heard you announcing. Do you have country roots? My family grew crops and had cattle and horses on our farm in Williamston, South Carolina. My dad’s dad grew up there, and the family’s always been in the farming industry. I’ve always loved living in the country. I can’t picture myself anywhere else. We grew up with cows and pigs. You name it, we had it. We’ve got about 30 acres, mostly cleared out. Right now we’ve got about 25 cows and 12 or 15 horses. My mom and dad worked outside the home—my dad for a company for 35 or 40 years, and my mom taught kindergarten. My dad and my grandpa had a garden, probably half an acre, planted with corn, tomatoes, okra, green beans… and they did all the plowing with a little pony named Duke. It was very old school. When I got to be a teenager, I started realizing the way things operate and what technology can do, and I told my grandpa: Continued on page 18..
LQHBA Insider
History of the Oldenburg Breeding Program at Newtown Farm By George Newtown
By Martha Claussen
NCOMING LQHBA PRESIDENT JULIEN ‘BUTCH’ STEVENS III Julien “Butch” Stevens, III is a very busy man! He just accepted another duty to his demanding schedule when he was elected president of the Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association (LQHBA) for 20162017.
Photo above: Karla Skrantz, Butch Stevens, Jose Jaramillo with Brees Bayou.
Born and raised in Leesville, Louisiana, Stevens has been around horses his entire life. “My dad was in and out of racing,” said Stevens. “We spent plenty of time at the brush tracks when I was growing up.” Continued on page 61...
The successes of the Newtown Farm Oldenburg breeding program have been nearly thirty years in the making. We began in 1988, when George and Barbara Newtown, then residents of Wausau, Wisconsin, interviewed stallion candidates with an eye toward breeding our successful Thoroughbred event-anddressage mare Handsome Molly (b. 1979) and her younger full sister Nancy Whiskey (b. 1980) in order to produce replacement mounts for ourselves. Continued on page 36...
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