Amazing Return and Clint Allen N August 2009, Raley-Mae Radomske See the Mercuria/NCHA Iwas on the Brink of Death
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Breaking News SUBSCriBe NoW to Quarter Horse News NCHA World Series and get the June 15 issue • Coverage of Western of Cutting National Championships Faith In My Cat and his former trainer, • All the cute babies! See the Clint Allen, marked a 228 to win the 2010 QHN Foals Section. Open finals and earn $8,548, while • Breeding by the ICSI Scurry, Texas, owner Heather Stiles guid- method: It’s becoming ed 2005 gelding Dulces Joker to his first more affordable! career victory with a 224 in the Non-Pro Week of May 17, 2010 quarterhorseneWs.coM finals to earn ... FRead more at quarterhorsenews.com. Raley-Mae’s See the Action Video Faith in My Cat Central Amazing Return and Clint Allen n August 2009, Raley-Mae Radomske See the Mercuria/NCHA Iwas on the brink of death. Doctors at World Series Open Champions run. the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, Ariz., had to overcome complications Get tHe LAteSt oNLiNe NoW At during surgery when they attempted to remove a golf ball-size brain tumor. After two separate procedures and weeks of hospitalization, Radomske made an n CoMMoN CAUSeS oF incredible recovery and left for her home SteriLity iN StALLioNS in Ellensburg, Wash. The pathology Despite all scientific breakthroughs, infer- reports showed no signs of cancer. tility remains an uncomfortable subject in the horse world. Silent, invisible, it leaves Not even a year after her harrowing experience, questions in its wake and makes everyone 19-year-old Radomske amazingly returned to the wonder if it could have been prevented, if cutting pen. Not only did she return to the cut- it’s genetic and even if it is a caretaker’s fault that a horse has been robbed of its ting pen, she competed in the NCHA Western chance to pass along valuable genes. Nationals Non-Pro and $50,000 Amateur finals aboard her great gelding Venture On Me during the n eLite reiNiNG iN itALy The 2010 Italian Reining Horse first week of May. Her parents, Jody and Harland Association/NRHA Derby was held during Radomske, were both nervous and amazed by their the 23rd edition of the Salone del Cavallo daughter’s courage and recovery, but they are also Americano, Europe’s largest American impressed that Raley-Mae has been taking a full Radomske was a breed horse show. Nicola Brunelli rode course load at New Mexico State University. And as Western Nationals RS Polyphemus Jac to the Derby Open an additional bonus, she is on a rodeo scholarship. Non-Pro and $50,000 Championship. “We are so blessed,” said Raley-Mae’s mother, Amateur finalist aboard n t orNADo DeStrUCtioN Jody. “It was a remarkable recovery. She’s been rid- Venture On Me. iN okLAHoMA ing her rodeo horses pretty good, and when she got Royal Vista Ranches, Wayne, Okla., lost her invitations to Western Nationals, she was really three horses and a mare barn, had seven horses seriously injured and taken to surprised she qualified because she had just shown equine clinics, and had a breeding barn a few times. We were worried because she hadn’t and an indoor arena partially destroyed ridden a cutting horse since before her illness. But by tornadoes last week. Raley said, ‘Cutting’s easy for me. It will be fine.’ ” n FroM tHe NeWS DeSk Indeed, cutting seems to come naturally to Raley- Check out the latest news from around Mae. She has been riding cutting horses since she the equine and agriculture industries. Get was 5. Among her accolades, she captured the details about the 2010 NCHA Convention, NCHA $10,000 Amateur World Championship hay prices from around the United States, in 2004 and won the Girls Cutting in 2006 and
testing for Equine Piroplasmosis in Texas, SuzaNN e Forre ST and the retirement of President Dr. Edward 2008 at the National High School Finals Rodeo Allred’s from Los Alamitos Race Course. riding 1997 gelding Venture On Me. See the full story in the June 15 issue of Quarter Horse News. —SW Digital Update out ‘N’ About
Roper Lineup Last chance to join up to run down some steer.
Lovin’ it at Lawson’s Great music filled the crisp Utah air. Girls Represent (Below) Sporting a During the NCHA Western checkered pink shirt and pink boots, this one National Championships, climbs the fence to get a better view. held April 28-May 9 in Ogden, Utah, folks had the oppor- tunity to visit Utah trainer Lawson Hadlock’s ranch for barbecue, music, team roping and a darn good time. Throwin’ Loops Team roping was the main event at Lawson’s.
Get That Cow! Wyatt Nuttall, Our Host Three’s a Charm These gals who won the Western Nationals Professional trainer were in the middle of the action as Senior Youth, shows he can throw Lawson Hadlock they kept score. a loop, too. What Happened? This young cowboy misplaced his horse.
Header Thinks (left) No lost fingers
Real Cowboy (below)Team roping flagman and all-around cowboy John Wright. Note the hackamore.
Sunset The roping ends as night falls over the Hadlock ranch. Smart Little Lena’s Leading Money-Earners Cutting Simply RED WHITE AND BOON $922,063 1988 G SMART PEPPY LENA (PT)* $494,314 1984 G JUSTA SMART PEANUT $417,739 1997 M Brilliant SMART PLAY $410,688 1987 G SOME KINDA MEMORIES $378,671 1994 M y today’s standards, Smart Little Lena SMART LITTLE SENOR* $362,933 1985 G never had very large foal crops. Out of B27 crops, including 2010, only four went JIGGIN LITTLE LENA* $343,452 1986 G over 100. His first crop of 67 arrived in 1984. His QUEJANAISALENA $338,204 1999 S largest crop, in 1985, totaled 131. Eighty foals arrived in 1986. Those first three years put the PLAYIN N FANCY SMART $333,623 2004 M stallion on the fast track to success as a sire. COMMANDICATE* $296,328 1986 G Expectations were certainly high. In 1982, *From first 3 foal crops Smart Little Lena was shown by Bill Freeman for the Smart Little Lena Venture to a 225 and the NCHA Futurity Open Championship. Smart Little Lena’s Offspring: He followed that up in 1983 with a win at the The First Three Seasons NCHA Super Stakes and a tie for the Open title at the NCHA Derby (with Peppymint (foals of 1984-86 at shows thru 12/31/1989) Twist, shown by Buster Welch). The stallion H PaT 1987 $353,251
(Doc O’Lena x Smart Peppy x Peppy San), bred all 1988 $1,171,173 by Hanes Chatham, Pilot Point, Texas, had the 1989 $1,492,024 pedigree and the talent, to the tune of $743,275 Smart Date and Leon Harrel in earnings, according to Equi-Stat. He passed his aptitude in the cutting pen to his offspring. Championship, also with Freeman Smart Little Lena lived up to, and exceeded, riding: Commandicate, a gelding those expectations very quickly. Among his first out of Ms Linton Command by crop was a mare named Smart Date. Bred by Mr Linton, was bred by M-Bar Shorty Freeman Inc., Era, Texas, she was out Ranch, Wayne, Okla. He went on of Trip Date Bar by Tripolay Bar. Paired with to win the 1990 NCHA Breeders Leon Harrel, she won the 1987 NCHA Futurity Cutting and earned a total of Open with a 225, the same score her sire marked $296,328 in a career that lasted five years earlier. She went on to earn a total of through 1997. $172,986. In 1987, Smart Little Lena’s In 1988, Smart Little Senor continued the get earned a total of $353,251. In family tradition by tying for the NCHA Futurity 1988, they upped the earnings to Open Championship with Bill Freeman riding. $1,171,173. And by the end of (He tied with Cols Lil Pepper, shown by Doug 1989, horses sired by Smart Little Jordan.) Part of Smart Little Lena’s second crop, Lena had earned $1,492,024. he was out of Senorita Misty by Senor George, Four of his top 10 money-earners and was bred by John Meredith, Olney, Texas. are from those first three crops. Smart Little Senor earned $362,933 in his —SM career. The same year, Spencer Harden rode Jazalena Smart Little Senor and Bill Freeman (PT) to the NCHA Futurity Non-Pro Reserve Championship. Harden bred and raised the mare out of his great mare Jazabell Quixote, a Equi-Stat, a division of Cowboy Publishing Group and Quarter Horse daughter of Doc Quixote. She earned $145,009 News, compiles and researches money earned within equine perfor- and was later registered with AQHA as Smart mance events and then enters this information into its database for use in producing statistical reports. Lil Jazalena. These performance events include cutting, reining, reined cow horse as well as barrel racing, pleasure horse and ranch versatility. Equi-Stat’s statistical information helps performance horse events present a In 1989, a member of Smart Little Lena’s more accurate picture of their particular event to entrants, breeders, owners and potential sponsors. For third crop took the NCHA Futurity Reserve more information about Equi-Stat and what it might do for you, visit equistat.com. Digital Update in the know Mark ‘em Up FaiLEd TacTics effects, most people Most reiners enter would agree that these Event the show pen with a two things influence our strategy and supporting society as a whole. It’s With futurity season just around tactics. But sometimes natural to believe that Premierethe corner, here is a “bit” of history even the best laid plans they occur at reining about the National reined Cow Horse don’t work out. Everyone shows, too. association Snaffle Bit Futurity, the pre- makes mistakes. mier event for 3-year-old reined cow Whether you’re a mul- ThE Fab FivE horses. Trying to improve tiple NRHA Futurity win- What can be done to your reining ner or a first-year rookie, improve your score? 2009 NRCHA Snaffle blunders are bound to Five variables that Bit Open Champions scores? Here will make the difference Reymanator and happen. At least you can Zane Davis are some factors take comfort in the fact between a zero and that nobody is perfect, a plus are controlled affecting scores, • The and you’ve got a chance speed, quickness, P first Snaffle rimo morale S from pilot errors to try again. finesse, authority and Bit Futurity to judging mis- smoothness. Co-Champions FYIErrors in Judging Controlled speed, were Bobby takes to five Competitors aren’t the quickness and smooth- Ingersoll, rid- magic words. only ones with imperfec- ness are fairly easy ing Leocita Chex, and Les Vogt, rid- tions. While judges strive to understand. With ing Wrong Key. The inaugural event, to do their best, they’re controlled speed, fast in 1970 at the California State Although mark- only human. Judges will means fast, but not out Fairgrounds in Sacramento, Calif., had address their errors as of control. Slow means 27 entries. ing a 70 is a big long as the entire pat- slow. Build means build. • In 1975, the event moved to enough challenge tern is documented on Quickness means Reno Park Sports Arena in Nevada. A videotape. Long hours of snapping back through record-breaking 128 entries vied for by itself, it would focused concentration, a rollback or obtaining $400,000 in cash and prizes. be simplistic to sometimes for several speed in a spin within • In 1982, the five-judge system, say that running consistent days, make it a half revolution, as discarding the high and low scores, was hard to be consistent. opposed to getting it in implemented. a clean pattern is Another inconsistency the second revolution. • In 1986, the same rider won all it takes to win occurs when two or Finesse is defined as the top two placings for the first time. three judges are scoring “the area of communica- Greg Ward won the Futurity Open a reining. Many together. Sometimes, tion between horse and Championship on Smokinic, and the times just a few the scores are off a few rider that is displayed as Reserve on Nic A Chex. points. effortless.” • In 2010, the Intermediate Open points separate Authority is when Futurity paychecks will be bigger you from first- Touchy Topics a rider challenges the than ever. Support from Cinch, in the Style and politics. pattern, executing each form of $25,000, brings the added place money. Sometimes they are maneuver with convic- money in the Intermediate division to spoken of with resent- tion. $70,000. First place will pay $30,000 There are many ment, sometimes with Smoothness refers this year. The 2009 Intermediate pride, and almost always to the execution of the Open Champion, Brad Buttrey, won variables that with discretion. They entire pattern and is $18,486. roSS HeC ox influence a judge’s seem to underscore all easy to see during tran- avenues of life. 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