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Digital Update Breaking News SUBSCRIBE NOW to Quarter Horse News NRCHA Stakes and get the May 1 issue • 2009 All Industry Statistics Three horses ridden by Ron Ralls, Gainesville, Texas, and owned by Texans • NCHA Super Stakes sales Shannon and Hershel Reid, dominated the • Major cutting, reining Open at the National Reined Cow Horse and reined cow horse Association Stakes in Nampa, Idaho, on event coverage March 28. CD Dee Vee Dee topped the division with a 666-point ... WEEK OF MARCH 29, 2010 QUARTERHORSENEWS.COM TRead more at quarterhorsenews.com. Video See the Action Central Whizs Katrina and Craig Schmersal Watch the 2010 Seminole Hard Rock Reining Classic Derby Open Champions’ run. GET THE LATEST ONLINE NOW AT n NCHA SUPER STAKES The first round of the XTO Energy/NCHA Colorado Republican Tom Wiens believes he’s the Super Stakes Open is finished and the best candidate to take the job. second round finishes on Friday. Dualin Wiens is perhaps best-known in the performance Cats Merada and Geoffrey “Spud” horse business for the iconic “WR” brand, which Sheehan topped the go with a 220. stands for, naturally, “Wiens Ranch.” An operation owned by Wiens and his wife, Diana, Wiens Ranch n PAT’S BLOG has owned horses that have won close to $300,000 Dale Wilkinson was a person Pat and bred horses that have earned $1.4 million. The Feuerstein cared about. Memories of this NRHA Hall of Fame reiner and ranch owned The Smart Look, a Smart Little Lena first NRHA Futurity Champion generate mare the Wienses purchased as a 6-year-old in 1993 more than a few smiles. Everyone has and owned until her sale in 2001 to Strawn Valley a “Dale story.” Pat has more than a Ranch. Thanks to this amazing mare, Wiens Ranch few to remember. is listed as the official breeder of a number of winners, JU D including: WR This Cats Smart ($236,474); Smart Y SP n GALA’ S BLOG Lookin Hi Brow ($221,929), the 1999 Derby Open A Gala asks, “What’s on your bucket list?” winner; One Smart Lookin Cat ($226,122), the 2003 ULDIN The one with dreams to be fulfilled and desires to enjoy before you leave this Futurity winner; and WR Smart Hickory ($68,022). G earth. Of course, each of us gets closer The Smart Look is among the top 10 all-time lead- to that day each morning we awaken, ing cutting horse dams. According to Equi-Stat, she Tom Wiens campaigns in Colorado (Inset) Tom Wiens cutting so it’s time to get started on that list! has produced 12 money-earning offspring that have on The Smart Look, a mare who went on to become one of amassed $1.2 million in show winnings. the industry’s leading producers. n FR OM THE NEWS DESK Wiens is the grandson of Russian immigrants who Check out the consignments to the started farming in Colorado in the 1940s. His father, D.C. and studying economic, legal and political sys- NCHA Super Stakes Sale and read about the horse that won the $10 mil- Joel, was a public school teacher who turned into a tem of European countries at the University of Graz lion Dubai Cup. Also, read about how self-made success story, starting with a farming ser- in Austria, Wiens went to Yale University, where he “puppy mill” legislation could impact vices business and then expanding into banking and earned a Master of Divinity degree. Tom and Diana livestock producers and discover how hotels. Tom Wiens grew up in the cattle, wheat and have been married for 30 years and they have four some are pushing for government oil country where Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming children and one grandchild. subsidies for grass-fed beef. meet. He attended grade school and high school in the See the April 15 issue of Quarter Horse News to panhandle of Nebraska. After earning his bachelor’s see the full story on Wiens along with his responses degree from The American University in Washington to questions about the issues. —KT Digital Update Out ‘N’ About March Madness March was a busy month for cutters and reiners with numerous events held across the country. A few captured “behind-the-scenes” moments at two of the larger events – Cowboy Capital Classic Derby, a Stephenville, Texas, reining, and the Pacific Coast Cutting Association Derby/Classic/Challenge in Paso Robles, Calif. – are pictured here. PRECIOUS Addie Allen, the daughter of Quincy and FAMILY TIME Dr. Lety Buckley and her daughter, Megan Gunther, spent some Dustin Allen, enjoyed her Cheerios while watching the time together in Stephenville. Buckley was the Level 1 Non-Pro Co-Champion. Cowboy Capital Classic reining classes. TIME TO CELEBRATE (right) Lyndsey Jordan celebrated YOU DON’T SAY Mister Nicadual her win in the Limited Non-Pro with her parents, JESSICA seems to be getting in on the con- Harold and Becky Jordan. versation between Mandy and Tom R McCutcheon, and Tracy Higginbottom. O BBINS Mandy rode Jerry Kimmel’s stallion in H JESSICA the CRI competition. ARMS R JESSICA JESSICA O BBINS HOW DID I DO? R R H Plus Me Big Time might O O ARMS BBINS BBINS have been asking Tami H H Nelson how he performed ARMS ARMS FINAL WORD PCCHA cutting judges, (left to in the Non-Pro. The duo right), Bruce Richardson, Arthur Jackson, Lee placed ninth. SNACK TIME Bobby Hoenck enjoys KEEPING WARM The outdoor Wood, Brad Wilson and Jason Slain the sunshine, while his horses grab a bite. heaters were a necessity with the JESSICA unseasonably chilly temperatures. RIDE ’M COWBOY! R Stick horse competitor O BBINS Phil Benadum H ARMS JESSICA Paso Robles and its neighboring R O cities provide great scenery and BBINS entertainment to the PCCHA Derby/ H Classic/Challenge. ARMS Grays Starlight Grays Starlight’s Leading Performers HORSE EARNINGS PEDIGREE (dam x dam’s sire) Stella Starlight (97M) $304,920 Torsion Girl x Tivios Torsion Bar Starlight Gem (92M) $246,791 M ID Gems Emerald x Doc Bar Gem GE A MES A Little Starlight (91M) $226,507 Gringa Sug x Doc’s Sug Grays Starlight was a handsome stallion destined Grays Starlight’s Leading Maternal Grandget HORSE EARNINGS by pedigree to be a great PEDIGREE (sire x dam) performer. Owned and shown Smart Spook (01S) $373,751 by Charlie Ward, he earned Smart Chic Olena x Sugarplum Spook $41,128 in the cutting pen. Wood I Never (03M) $364,478 Zack T Wood x Curly Gray Hair Bred by Harold “Spook” Stream, Lake Charles, La., Grays Starlight was foaled in Jeeps Posi Traction (00G) $320,854 1984, by the legendary Peppy San Badger and Genuine Jeep x Starstruck DB M ID out of Doc’s Starlight, a daughter of Doc Bar. GE A Grays Starlight’s Leading Paternal Grandget Californian Charlie Ward bought the stallion MES from Stream in hopes of replacing the great HORSE EARNINGS Doc Bar. Grays Starlight exceeded expecta- Lach Perks and Stella Starlight, PEDIGREE (sire x dam) tions. the leading performer by Grays Starlight Joe Schuchert’s Polo Ranch bought Grays RR Star (PT) (98S) $258,959 Like A Diamond (PT) x RL Miss Kitty Starlight in 1996, and by that time the stallion Non-Pro with Perks, and make both Open had 10 foal crops on the ground. He stood and Non-Pro finals at numerous aged events Starbucks Sidekick (00S) $192,960 at Polo Ranch in Marietta, Okla., until his through 2003. Stella Starlight has produced Smart Starbuck x Dun It For Chex untimely death in 2002 from complications of six performers with total Equi-Stat earnings Docs Soula (03S) $144,314 West Nile virus. of $246,737. Soula Jule Star x Docs Hickory Nut His last AQHA-registered foal crop of 51 Of note are Grays Starlight’s leading pater- was born in 2003, for a total of 727 get. Of nal and maternal grandget. RR Star (PT) leads those, 498 – an astounding 68.5 percent – the way on the paternal side. The 1998 stallion $373,751. Ridden by Shawn Flarida, he was the earned money, to the tune of $12,130,667. He (Like A Diamond [PT] x RL Miss Kitty x Nu 2004 NRHA Futurity Open Champion, 2005 also had 26 APHA-registered get (some dual- Cash) earned $258,959. Owned by Lundin NRHA Derby Open Champion and 2005 registered with AQHA). Grays Starlight sired Farm, he won the 2001 NRHA Futurity with AQHA Junior Reining World Champion. AQHA and APHA World Champions, and Andrea Fappani and topped the 2003 NRHA The stallion also won the 2007, 2008 and 2009 horses that won major NCHA, NRHA and Derby with Tim McQuay. World Reining Masters with Rudi Kronsteiner NRCHA events. Grays Starlight’s maternal grandget are riding. The produce records of Grays Starlight’s topped by Rosanne Sternberg’s Smart Spook RR Star and Smart Spook already have sired sons and daughters is equally impressive. Of (Smart Chic Olena x Sugarplum Spook), numerous winners, carrying on the genetic his top 20 performing offspring, 15 became a 2001 stallion with Equi-Stat earnings of power of their grandsire. —SM producers – and four of the other five were geldings. Grays Starlight’s leading money-earner is Equi-Stat, a division of Cowboy Publishing Group and Quarter Horse News, Stella Starlight, a 1997 mare out of Torsion compiles and researches money earned within equine performance events Girl by Tivios Torsion Bar. Owned by Lach and then enters this information into its database for use in producing statistical reports.