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Good Eatin’ Evaristo Mariscal from the Hatchett Ranch makes sure he gets plenty of barbecue sauce for his brisket at the kickoff party. Country Lullaby Riley Smith of the Sandhill Cattle Co. team, cradles son Reno, 1-month-old, as he listens to Red Steagall at the kickoff party. Memorable Piece (left) Sandy Meyer of Classic Leather Designs created the hand-tooled frame that surrounds this painting of President Ronald Reagan by Andy Thomas. The frame contains Spreading the Word Foundation board many of the late president’s most member Gary Morton tells KGNC Radio’s memorable statements, such as “Mr. Tim Butler about the crisis fund and schol- Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” arships the WRCF awards.

(L-R) Warm and Comfy Foundation booth volunteer Diane Barrett makes a comfy napping spot for her grandson, Aaron Lee Witter. Checkin’ It Out Klara Stock and her father, Kolby, pose in front of the Budweiser Clydesdale stalls. Kolby rode for the KW Cattle Co., and Diamond Ranches team. Happy Camper “Peanut” sits in her “Saddle Pup,” created by David Stanley of Rafter DS Alpacas. Stanley’s wife, Chip, said the Corgi loves to ride behind her on everything from parades to leisurely trail rides. Team Work Foundation board chairman Sam Daube (on ladder) adjusts the banner on the foundation’s banner with help from board vice chairman Larry Thompson as board member Pat Fitzgerald looks on. TOP PERFORMING A Star Paternal GrandGet Maternal GrandGet Horse/YOB/Pedigree Money Event Horse/YOB/Pedigree Money Event 1 RR Star (PT) $258,959 RN 1 Smart Spook $381,426 RN Still 98S (Like A Diamond [PT] x RL Miss Kitty x Nu Cash) 01S (Smart Chic Olena x Sugarplum Spook) 2 Starbucks Sidekick $193,206 RN 2 Wood I Never $364,478 CT 00G (Smart Starbuck x Dun It For Chex x Hollywood Dun It) 03M (Zack T Wood x Curly Gray Hair) 3 Docs Soula $144,315 WC 3 Jeeps Posi Traction $321,854 CT

Shines 03S (Soula Jule Star x Docs Hickory Nut x Doc’s Hickory) 00S (Genuine Jeep x Starstruck DB)

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5 Guaranteeya Julestar $136,108 CT 5 Kittens $283,708 CT es 03G (Soula Jule Star x Raks Guarnteeya x Doc’s Tamarak) 02M (High Brow Cat x Starlights Liz) 6 Spooks Gotta Whiz $133,847 RN 6 Wood Ya Wanna $283,335 CT 07S (Spooks Gotta Gun x Prettywhizprettydoes x Topsail Whiz) 00G (Zack T Wood x Curly Gray Hair) ou only have Jeff KirK 7 RU Missing Diamonds (PT) $129,252 RN 7 Spookys Smart Pants $258,027 CT Yto look as far as the finals 01S (Like A Diamond [PT] x Missy Olena [PT] Smart Chic Olena) 99M (Smart Aristocrat x San Starlight) 8 CD Lights $233,383 CT of this year’s National Reining bride 8 Smarty Starlight $128,474 RN Horse Association Futurity, Dec. 03S (Bueno Starlight x Miss Catalyst 296 x Taris Catalyst) 99S (CD Olena x Delights Of My Life) 9 Starbucks Jazz $101,763 RN 9 Smart Like Dusty $175,953 CT 4-5, to see that the 1984 stallion 03S (Smart Starbuck x Flipped Out Jazz x Colonel Flip) 95M (Smart Little Lena x Lil Star Dusty) Grays Starlight is still making an 10 I Ben Thinking $101,763 CT 10 Kitty Catalac $165,211 CT impact on the Western performance 03G (Soula Jule Star x Fancy Handle x Dual Pep) 00M (High Brow Cat x Marias Starlight) 11 Spookys Cat Deville $156,355 CT horse industry. (Top left) Grays Starlight (Top right) 11 Laredo Montana $91,126 CT Shawn Flarida on Smart Spook, Grays 05S (Light N Lena x Little Memory Maker x Peppy San Badger) 03G (High Brow Cat x San Starlight) Both the Level 4 Open and Non- Starlight’s leading maternal grandget 12 Ifitaintgotthatswing (PT) $87,033 CT 12 Spookys Catmando $152,439 CT 98M (Like A Diamond [PT] x Solano Sally x Doc’s Solana) 01S (High Brow Cat x San Starlight) Pro Champions were grandget of 13 Gimme Major Bucks $86,126 RN 13 Cattilion $150,392 CT the legendary horse. In the Open Champion Stella Starlight 03G (Smart Starbuck x Majors Serendipity x Major Bonanza) 01M (High Brow Cat x Staraleno) division, Spooks Gotta Whiz, by ($304,920). Grays Starlight stands 14 Gypsy Red Light $76,410 CT 14 Cats Ruby $150,281 CT 04G (Starlights Gypsy x Red Acre x Bob Acre Doc) 04M (High Brow Cat x Rubys Rhapsody) as Equi-Stat’s No. 15 all-time cut- Grays Starlight’s No. 4-earning rein- 15 Gunnin For Diamonds (PT) $66,664 RN 15 CD Stars $147,086 CT ing offspring, Spooks Gotta Gun ting sire, No. 3 reined cow horse sire 03S (Mr Gun Starlight x Hearts Of Diamonds x Doc O Dynamite) 01S (CD Olena x Starry Eyed Freckles) ($81,638), rode to top honors with and No. 16 reining sire. Jordan Larson. Spooks Gotta Gun Grays Starlight’s paternal and has produced four reining perform- maternal grandget continue to prove brought to you by ers with earnings of $155,825. his genetic horsepower. On the The Futurity Non-Pro Champion, paternal side, 2001 NRHA Futurity ridden by Tish Fappani, was Litn Open Champion RR Star (PT) Up Conquistador, out of 1996 Grays leads the way with $258,959. The Starlight daughter Aleena Starlight, 1998 stallion is by Like A Diamond who’s produced four reining per- (PT), who has produced 145 per- formers with $1.3 million earned. In formers of $83,816. “Horsemen Since 1849” During his own career, Grays total, Grays Starlight’s 791 paternal Trace Cribbs, horse manager Starlight earned $41,128 in the cut- grandget have earned $6.3 million ranch 940/495-3773 ting pen with then-owner Charlie and landed the stallion as Equi- www.waggonerranch.com Ward. In 1996, Polo Ranch pur- Stat’s No. 11 lifetime reining and chased the horse, and he stood at reined cow horse paternal grandsire. the Marietta, Okla., facility until his Topping the maternal grandget death in 2002. list is 2004 NRHA Futurity Open Grays Starlight produced 727 Champion Smart Spook, out of Equi-Stat, a division of Cowboy offspring, with his last crop hitting Sugarplum Spook, whose eight Publishing Group and Quarter Horse the ground in 2003. Of his total off- performing offspring have won News, compiles and researches money earned within equine per- formance events and then enters this information into its database $451,771. In total, Grays Starlight’s spring, 498 (68.5 percent) were per- for use in producing statistical reports. These performance events formers who earned a sum of $12.1 791 maternal grandget have earned include cutting, reining, reined cow horse as well as barrel racing, million ($9,467,547 cutting; $1,438, $6.3 million, placing the stallion in pleasure horse and ranch versatility. Equi-Stat’s statistical informa- 441 reined cow horse; $1,243,043 the top 20 on all of Equi-Stat’s life- tion helps performance horse events present a more accurate picture reining). time maternal grandsire lists: cutting of their particular event to entrants, breeders, owners and potential His top earner is National Cutting (10th), reining (17th) and reined sponsors. For more information about Equi-Stat and what it might do for you, visit equistat.com. Horse Association Futurity Non-Pro cow horse (10th). —EH Digital update In the know Coping With Colic benefit Silent Colic isn’t a specific disease. It’s abdominal pain from any cause. In true colic the pain originates in the stomach or intestinal tract. In false colic, as in the case of the foaling mare, Auction the pain comes from organs such as the liver, kidneys or uterus. forTimBarry A horse is more prone than other animals to develop colic because he’s unable to vomit or even belch. Thus, if a horse overeats or bolts down his feed, his stomach can become dis- tended with gas and fluid that can’t get through his mouth. In addition, a horse’s large intestine is enormous compared to that of other animals. This large capacity allows a horse to digest grass and hay. In contrast to foregut fermenters, such as cattle and sheep who break down forage in their stomachs, horses are hindgut fermenters, who digest forage in their large intestines. A horse’s large intestine is prone to become blocked or impacted because of the coarse con- sistency of its contents. Before reaching the large intestine, grass and hay have been chewed Tim Barry and his son, Colton and moistened but aren’t otherwise changed. This undigested forage can pile up a sharp bend in the intestine and partially or totally block it. A silent auction, with all money Factors that can lead to impaction include insufficient drinking water, a rapid change to an unfamiliar (and more fibrous) type of forage, and bad teeth leading to incomplete chewing of raised going toward medical forage before it’s swallowed. In addition, indigestible material such as sand can accumulate treatment for longtime cutter in a horse’s intestine and block it. TimBarry,startsWednesday The progress of food through a horse’s digestive system also can be disrupted by a twist (the morning, Dec. 8, and continues intestine rotates around itself) or displacement (the intestine moves into an abnormal loca- through Friday’s Open semifi- tion). A horse’s intestine can become twisted or displaced in a variety of ways. In one common nalsattheBordenMilk/National type of twist, a major portion of the large intestine becomes wound tightly around itself (large Cutting Horse Association colon volvulus). In the most common displacement, a segment of the large intestine becomes FuturityinFortWorth. caught between the horse’s spleen and his left kidney (nephrosplenic entrapment). Barry, 61, Bryron, Ill., suffered a heart attack while competing in the second go Can Colic Kill? of the Non-Pro on Dec. 3 in Will Rogers In a word – yES. Memorial Coliseum. After receiving CPR Death from colic is due to shock, usually brought on by obstruction of the blood flow to the horse’s digestive in the arena from fellow cutters Rick and tract or by rupture of his stomach or intestines. A horse suffering from a distention so severe or a twist so tight Priscilla Rothwell, Abilene, Texas, Barry was as to completely shut off the blood supply to his stomach or intestine will die within a few hours if the condition revived at Harris Hospital in Fort Worth. On FYIisn’t corrected. A horse with a twist or impaction that completely blocks the onward movement of the intestinal contents, but not the flow of blood, may survive as long as 24 to 48 hours before his intestine ruptures. Tuesday, Dec. 7, he was in stable condition and recovering well, according to his daugh- Warning Signs ter, cutting horse trainer Cara Barry Brewer, The signs of colic (roughly in order of increasing severity of pain) are: Jay, Okla. “It was a miracle, really,” Brewer said. “They • yawning • Circling [Rick Rothwell, a surgeon, and Priscilla, a • Restlessness • Crouching or assuming an abnormal stance surgical nurse] were right there and they went right to work. They were our angels.” • Pawing • Sweating in the absence of exercise Roger Liliedahl, a Cleveland, Mo., cutter, also • Kicking at the abdomen • Lying down assisted the arena CPR effort, Brewer said. Silent auction items, all listed at the Cutters • Unwillingness to stand still • Rolling Café in the vendor’s area of the Amon Keep in mind, however, that theses signs aren’t specific for any particular type of colic. 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Digital update First Lady “ After complet- The5-year-oldseasonisprobablythebestyear ing a two-year term to go with them [to any-age NCHA cutting events as vice president, Beth Himes, 45, with a good horse] because they have all the Millersport, Ohio, will trainingonthem.Thethingisyouhavetojudge become president of the National Reining if they can take the stress [of competing more Horse Association in 2013. She will “ often].Sofar,he’stakenitprettygood. be the first woman in NRHA history to hold that position! — Kobie Wood about his success at any-age and limited-age events Himes, a non-pro reiner and successful with 2010 NCHA World Champion Stallion Boon Too Suen. businesswoman, recently told Quarter Horse News, “i don’t want my term to be all about that, but i do want people to know, this is a big deal. i am honored and i am thrilled to be the first woman president of an associa- tion that is typically dominated by men.” Himes added, “At the same time that i’m president of NrHA, Johne dobbs will be president of the AQHA. so there will be women running two major organizations. Plus, Princess Haya (Al Hussein of the United Arab emirates) was just re-elected as the fei (federation equestre internationale) president.” Himes, who admits to having a “bias for action,” added, “My hope is that there will be good things to remember me by.” —PF

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