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Cause And Effect Get the Latest Online at idyou Call Great King Pine. I ■ Florida Reining Derby Me Wimpy, rode the brother and Big Shiner, ridden by Shawn Flarida Da 7-year-old I remembered that for Erika Dos Santos Moraes Kotrozinis, gelding ridden by mare.” Starting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, scored a 151.5 to win Bart Corrington, 2001, Quarta Earl the Florida Reining Horse Association Tallahassee, Fla., was shown success- Classic Derby Level 4 Open. for Patty Widener, fully in NRHA Non-Pro Columbia Falls, limited-age events by ■ Competitive Edge Mont., earned the Kristi Rose, Bonnie Roll With The Punches 2011 National Hippensteel and Millions of dollars are spent every year Reining Horse Jillane Brown. trying to help people deal with life Association Novice Another plus: stressors and transitional crises when Horse Open Level 2 Didyou Call Me Wimpy perhaps a preventative intervention World Championship. got his education from may have been both economical and It wasn’t the first NRHA’s all-time top more effective. NRHA World title money-earner Shawn Corrington won Flarida. ■ Latin American for Windener. In “I kept track of Championships 2007, he won the the horse all year,” The American Quarter Horse Intermediate Open Corrington said. “We Association will host its first Latin World Championship bought Didyou Call Me American Championships April 17-22 in on her Great King Wimpy as a 3-year-old Avaré, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pine (Earl Be Nimble at the 2008 [NRHA] x Bobs Poco Echo x Futurity in Oklahoma ■ AQHA Incentive Bobs Ozark). It was City. Shawn’s assis- Fund Payout Corrington’s positive tant, Robin Schoeller, More than $2.7 million will be divided experience on Great showed him and among nominated foals that earned King Pine that led earned money on him. a total of 130,066.5 points – making the directly to his second He’s just a nice horse. American Quarter Horse Association NRHA title on Didyou He has an awesome Incentive Fund payout for the 2011 show Call Me Wimpy stop and a big turn season $21.14 per point. (Wimpys Little Step x – just like all those Quarta Earl x Earl Be horses that come from ■ Katie’s Blog Nimble). Shawn. Who wouldn’t Sometimes there’s an editorial that’s “The main reason want to ride something bound to hit a nerve. The one in the we bought Didyou behind that program?” March 1 issue of Quarter Horse News Call Me Wimpy was Cause: breeding, train- is one of those, I believe. It’s titled because he was out ing, talent. Effect: “Family Time.” of Quarta Earl, and two NRHA World she’s a full sister to Championships.–– PF See the Action Video Central Watch Kit Kat Sugar and Pete Branch (Top left) 2011 NRHA World Champion Didyou Call Me Wimpy and Bart Corrington (Lower left) 2007 NRHA win the Bonanza Cutting 4-Year-Old World Champion Great King Pine also ridden by Bart Corrington —Photos by Joe Moliken Open Championship. Digital Update Out ‘N’ About Good Times In Tunica Times were fun and the weather was nice for the Tunica Futurity and Classic, a limited-age cutting event held Jan. 3-Feb. 6 in Tunica, Miss. The show paid out over a half-million dollars to the best of 442 entries, which represented a better than 6 percent increase in both categories over last year. Also, the added money rose by $20,000 to a total of $170,000. Favorite Place Blue And White, an institution in the Mississippi Delta, is a favorite place for cutters to enjoy good ol’ Southern cooking. Good Genes (Right) NCHA Hall of Famer Pat Earnheart and his daughter, Kelle, a talented cutter who won the 4-Year- Old Non-Pro Championship at Tunica. Ms. Competitive Edge Quarter Horse News columnist Anna Mitchell and her two handsome little guys, Jayden, 4, and Lachlan, 1. Show Topper (Right) Texas professional cutter Sean Flynn won the 4-Year-Old Open Championship aboard Rey N Style, marking a 221. —Photo by Dawn Baxstrom 2112 Montgomery Street Fort Worth, Texas 76107 (817) 737-6397 • Fax 737-9266 Editorial FAX (817) 737-9455 Advertising FAX (817) 737-9633 Advertising Group Publisher Patty Tiberg Sheila Nab Reining, Editor Katie Tims Reined Cow Horse, Managing Editor Teri Lee Roping, Cutting Administrative Editor Sonny Williams Laura Rodgers Commercial Art Director Deb Miller Diana Buettner Sales Customer Service Manager Editorial Ellen Harris Advertising Coordinator Cutting Editor Mark Thompson Equi-Stat Reining Editor Pat Feuerstein Temple Read Director Donna Timmons Assistant Director Associate Editor Erin Haynes Tysh Franklin Statistician Better On Associate Editor Kelsey Pecsek Donna Carlisle Statistician Horseback Editorial Coordinator Jatona Sucamele Kim Glass Statistician Forget watching cattle from the stands – these A Publication of MCC Magazines, LLC cutters get an up-close a division of Morris Communications Company, LLC and personal look at the 735 Broad St., Augusta, GA 30901 next herd. INTERIM PRESIDENT Paul Smith CONTROLLER Scott Ferguson Delta Residents CREATIVE DIRECTOR Bill Greenlaw (Right) NCHA Director DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL OperaTIONS Jason Doyle Taylor Flowers and his Morris Communications Company, LLC wife, Nancy, live just a chairmaN AND CEO William S. Morris III few miles down the road PRESIDENT Will S. Morris IV from Tunica. Lovely Ladies Gail Hooper, wife of Tunica Futurity and Classic co-pro- ducer James Hooper, and her ALL CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 2012 QUARTER HORSE NEWS / QHN Insider cute dog, Gemma. Bonanza Started as ting’s first subscribed stal- lion events. It started as a (Left) Triple show open to only foals of Crown Champions its seven founding stallions. Smart They included 1970 National ‘Side Deal’ Little Lena Cutting Horse Association and Bill Freeman, Open Champion Doc O’Lena. BONANZA CUTTING HISTORY pictured Doc O’Lena’s son, 1982-83 while win- Year Entries Added Total Purse Triple Crown winner Smart ning their 1983 52 $25,000 $79,149 1982 NCHA Futurity Open title, Little Lena (Doc O’Lena x 1984 168 $50,000 $222,940 were also 4-Year-Old Open Smart Peppy x Peppy San), Champions in September, 2003, 1985 472 $50,000 $783,541 won the first Bonanza Cutting at the first Bonanza Cutting. 1986 480 $55,000 $837,146 (Right) Figuring up payouts at the 4-Year-Old Open title with a 1987 385 $55,000 $849,475 2012 Bonanza Cutting kept Terry 222.5 to earn $9,300. Shelton busy. 1988 411 $66,000 $494,081 Smart Little Lena, a career 1989 477 $75,000 $518,172 earner of $743,275 at that 1990 467 $78,000 $491,552 arly in her career as flict as it moved from March event and just five other 1991 520 $80,000 $471,351 Paul Crumpler’s ranch to February. It has taken shows, and career-long train- er and rider, Bill Freeman, 1992 562 $80,000 $492,230 Esecretary and book- place in Glen Rose, a popular really impressed Shelton. 1993 547 $80,000 $479,710 keeper, Terry Shelton said new base, the past two years. “When he [Freeman] got 1994 491 $80,000 $447,040 her Wichita Falls, Texas, Crumpler, 78, a show done working him, he’d do a 1995 476 $88,000 $461,780 boss asked her to help with founder and primary pro- ducer since 1983, said he little trick and Smart Little 1996 454 $98,000 $441,600 “a little side deal.” handed the reins completely Lena would actually lay 1997 476 $98,000 $486,038 Twenty-nine years and 30 over to his sons, Brady, Craig down,” she recalled. “He’d 1998 449 $98,000 $477,329 shows later, the Bonanza and Don, this year. He cred- just barely hit the ground, 1999 563 $100,000 $493,657 Cutting limited-age event its his family and Shelton, and then he’d get right back 2000 557 $100,000 $543,026 has paid out more than $15 the show’s original secretary up. I thought that was so 2001 440 $100,000 $442,839 million to 13,978 entries, and secretary at each event neat.” 2002 511 $94,000 $488,467 according to Equi-Stat since, with helping to turn it Crumpler eventually decid- 2003 445 $100,000 $437,152 records. into something bigger than he ed adding more stallions to 2004 410 $100,000 $403,718 Mid-February’s 30th originally planned. the Bonanza program would 2005 558 $108,650 $542,327 Bonanza Cutting in Glen Shelton, 52, started working create greater long-term 2006 390 $109,000 $395,304 Rose, Texas, established with Paul Crumpler shortly interest and allow for more 2007 428 $109,000 $453,270 new event records for overall before she turned 20, and has entries.