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What’s Inside ■ Out 'N' About: QHN Charity Golf Tournament ■ Equi-Stat: PCCHA Derby Classic & Challenge ■ FYI: Safe Travels ■ In the Know: US Rider introduces Mobile App ■ Short Story: The Real Deal Right Time, Right Horse Stacy Pigott uesday, May 6, marked a new “We are quite excit- chapter in the life of champion ed,” Lori Aaron said T cutting performer and lead- after Peptoboonsmal’s ing sire Peptoboonsmal. That is the much-anticipated day he moved from Hartman Equine arrival. Last fall, Reproduction Center in Whitesboro, when Lori told her Texas, to Aaron Ranch in Commerce, husband she’d like to Texas, after he was purchased by buy Peptoboonsmal, Phillip and Lori Aaron. “He didn’t say any- The 22-year-old, red roan stal- thing. He just pushed lion (Peppy San Badger x Royal Blue his hat up, leaned Boon x Boon Bar) won the 1995 back in his chair, and National Cutting Horse Association looked at me,” Lori Phillip and Lori Aaron with Peptoboonsmal on May 6, the day he (NCHA) Futurity Open Championship recalled. arrived at Aaron Ranch. with trainer Gary Bellenfant. The Aarons had bred Peptoboonsmal has sired performance several of their mares horses that combined to earn more to “Pepto” and were pleased with the prior to the Aarons’ call, and that than $22 million, including the earn- results, but at the time, Phillip wasn’t many questions were asked before the ers of more than $1 million each year sure Pepto’s former owner, Jackson deal was done, because Fields con- from 2001-2013. Individual standouts Land & Cattle, based in Jackson Hole, sidered it “very important where he have included cutting and reined cow Wyo., would even consider selling ended up.” horse sire One Time Pepto, 2002 and him. Jackson Land & Cattle had pur- “The versatility of that horse is phe- 2007 NCHA Horse of the Year honor- chased Peptoboonsmal in 2007, from nomenal. He’s a great stallion, and it ees Little Pepto Gal and Copaspepto, breeder Larry Hall Cutting Horses, of was great to have him as a part of our plus 2001 National Reined Cow Horse Weatherford, Texas. organization for several years,” Abel Association (NRCHA) Snaffle Bit “If you look at his offspring, and I said. “They were the right people, it Futurity Open Champion Boonlight come from a ranching family, I think was the right time and it worked well Dancer and 2009 NRCHA Derby Open he’s the best stud there’s ever been,” for everyone.” Champion Smart Boons. Phillip said. “His offspring are not just The Aarons said they didn’t buy Peptoboonsmal ranked seventh cutters. They are everything. It takes a Pepto with the intention of cloning the among all-time reined cow horse good-blooded horse to do everything.” stallion and have no plans at this time sires and eighth among all-time cut- Jackson Land & Cattle Ranch to do so. “We’ll be breeding Peptos for ting sires through 2013, according to Manager Chance Abel said a long time,” Phillip said. “This is going Equi-Stat records. Statistics updated ranch owner Richard Fields was to be his final home.” —MT through April show he has offspring pleased with the job earnings of $21,014,619 in cutting, Peptoboonsmal did for plus $1,371,605 in cow horse and them. He added that $263,728 in reining. Pepto hadn’t been for sale Out ‘n' About For the Kids Quarter Horse News (QHN) hosted a charity golf tournament to benefit Western Wishes on April 25 in Euless, Texas. The proceeds of this inaugural event will help start a new program for children in Texas facing adversity. Photos by Kelsey Pecsek 2112 Montgomery Street Fort Worth, Texas 76107 (817) 737-6397 • Fax 737-9266 Editorial FAX (817) 737-9455 Advertising FAX (817) 737-9633

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It’s Worth Knowing Information You Won’t Get Anywhere Else PCCHA Derby, Classic & Challenge

he Pacific Coast Cutting PCCHA Derby, Classic & Challenge Horse Association (PCCHA) (1982-2013) Core Balance Derby, Classic T Year Location Entries Added Total Purse It’s Worth & Challenge will celebrate its 33rd 1982 Sacramento, CA 133 $10,000 $58,281 anniversary June 8-15 at the 1983 Rancho Murieta, CA 132 $15,000 $81,544 South Point Equestrian Center in 1984 Rancho Murieta, CA 161 $13,000 $96,147 Knowing Las Vegas, Nev. The association 1985 Rancho Murieta, CA 155 $12,000 $75,113 1986 Santa Barbara, CA 243 $27,750 $145,240 sanctions competitions throughout 1987 Santa Barbara, CA 212 $32,601 $148,478 Since 1985 Equi-Stat has been the nine Western states including a performance horse industry’s pre- 1988 Reno, NV 464 $76,000 $300,689 fall Futurity & Gelding Stakes for 1989 Reno, NV 339 $56,000 $229,828 mier statistical database producing 1990 Santa Barbara, CA 272 $44,000 $178,172 statistics on multiple disciplines. 3-year-olds, as well as the spring Derby & Cutting Stakes for 4-year- 1991 Santa Barbara, CA 255 $35,000 $164,226 1992 Santa Barbara, CA 244 $35,001 $159,538 olds and Classic & Challenge for 1993 Santa Barbara, CA 213 $35,000 $139,545 5-and 6-year-old horses. 1994 Rancho Murieta, CA 243 $38,000 $141,889 The first PCCHA event was held 1995 Rancho Murieta, CA 207 $38,000 $136,727 in 1982 in Sacramento, Calif., and 1996 Rancho Murieta, CA 268 $62,000 $183,740 drew 133 entries that competed for 1997 Rancho Murieta, CA 295 $64,000 $195,619 Statistics You Won’t $10,000 added monies and $58,281 1998 Rancho Murieta, CA 289 $64,000 $192,574 Get Anywhere Else 1999 Reno, NV 386 $115,000 $289,789 purse. The event drew its largest 2000 Reno, NV 480 $113,000 $301,846 number of entries, 710, in 2007, 2001 Reno, NV 445 $114,000 $320,633 ★ Cutting when it offered $132,000 in added 2002 Reno, NV 525 $184,000 $465,564 money and paid out $427,327. 2003 Reno, NV 573 $184,000 $493,367 ★ Reining 2004 Reno, NV 620 $184,001 $501,612 It distributed its largest purse, 2005 Reno, NV 516 $184,000 $456,695 ★ Reined Cow Horse $501,612, in 2004 with $184,001 2006 Reno, NV 403 $109,000 $311,954 added and 620 recorded entries. 2007 Paso Robles, CA 710 $132,000 $427,327 ★ Western Pleasure The event’s top-earning horse is 2008 Paso Robles, CA 619 $132,000 $382,903 High Style Travalin (Travalena x SR 2009 Paso Robles, CA 462 $106,000 $296,325 ★ Barrel Racing 2010 Paso Robles, CA 388 $106,000 $294,055 High Style x Doc’s Hickory), bred 2011 Paso Robles, CA 395 $106,000 $298,584 ★ and much more by Carolyn Reynolds, of Acampo, 2012 Paso Robles, CA 338 $106,000 $286,869 Calif., and owned by West Coast 2013 Las Vegas, NV 681 $131,000 $443,154 Cutting Horses, of Santa Cruz, TOTALS 11,666 $2,663,353 $8,198,024 Calif., with total event earnings of Purchase Online $45,258. The 1999 mare, whose earnings of $456,562. His high-dol- Equi-Stat lifetime record is more lar winner at the event is WR This than $226,299, won the PCCHA Cats Smart (High Brow Cat x The www.equistat.com 4-Year-Old Open Championship Smart Look x Smart Little Lena), with Gavin Jordan, of Wilton, bred by Wiens Ranch Company [email protected] 817-737-6397 Calif., riding. Smooth As A Cat Inc., of Sedalia, Colo., and owned (High Brow Cat x Shes Pretty by Wagonhound Land & Livestock Smooth x Wheeling Peppy), a 1999 Co. LLC, of Douglas, Wyo. Smith stallion bred by Tommy Manion, rode the 1999 stallion to $36,072 of Aubrey, Texas, and owned by in earnings. Hickorys Golden Flo Manion’s son, Kyle, is the second- (Mr Peponita Flo x Sport Model leading horse with PCCHA earn- Rio x Doc’s Hickory) is his second- ings of $42,592. highest money earner, bred by Tim Smith, of Temecula, Calif., Kenneth Hill, of Placerville, Calif., is the event’s No. 1 Open rider. and owned by Sandy Bonelli, of He has ridden 44 horses to total Petaluma, Calif., with earnings of PCCHA Derby, Classic & Challenge $34,507. Scott Weis, of Ojai, Calif.,

QHN_EquiStatAd_OneThirdVertical.indd 1 3/10/14 3:34:05 PM is the second-leading Open rider Top Horses Earnings Top Open Riders Earnings with 51 mounts having carried 1. High Style Travalin (99M)...... $45,258 1. Tim Smith, Temecula, CA...... $456,562 him to total earnings of $281,752. 2. Smooth As A Cat (99S)...... $42,592 2. Scott Weis, Ojai, CA...... $281,752 Bonelli has ridden 23 horses 3. Tapt Twice (99M)...... $38,336 3. Todd Bimat, Orland, CA...... $227,791 in PCCHA Derby, Classic & 4. Cats Full Moon (04S)...... $37,488 4. Russ Westfall, Los Olivos, CA...... $182,572 Challenge competition to rank as 5. WR This Cats Smart (99S)...... $36,072 5. Tom Long, Gardenville, NV...... $144,595 the event’s No. 1 Non-Pro rider 6. Hickorys Golden Flo (94M)...... $34,507 6. Gavin Jordan, Wilton, CA...... $118,969 with total earnings of $134,625. 7. Spookys Cash (97M)...... $34,235 7. Phil Rapp, Weatherford, TX...... $116,111 Her high-dollar earner is Shakin 8. Whittle Land Lana (01M)...... $31,777 8. Russ Miller, Saint Anthony, ID...... $106,801 Rondee (Smart Little Rondee x 9. My Lizzy Babe (07M)...... $29,476 9. Morgan Cromer, Los Olivos, CA...... $99,423 Shakin Flo x Mr Peponita Flo), 10. Amanda Stargun (98M)...... $28,968 10. Tom McTaggart, Gorman, TX...... $95,902 bred and owned by Bonelli, with $24,541 in earnings. Bonelli’s Top Sires Earnings Top Non-Pro Riders Earnings second-leading money earner is 1. High Brow Cat...... $574,066 1. Sandy Bonelli, Petaluma, CA...... $134,625 Shakin Rondee’s dam, Shakin Flo 2. Smart Little Lena...... $443,952 2. Mary Ann Rapp, Weatherford, TX...... $83,522 (Mr Peponita Flo x Shakin Cee x 3. Peppy San Badger...... $270,865 3. Dustin Adams, Poolville, TX...... $73,463 Colonel Freckles), bred by Kenneth 4. CD Olena...... $255,731 4. Phil Rapp, Weatherford, TX...... $63,612 Hill, of Placerville, Calif., who car- 5. Doc's Hickory...... $235,654 5. Greg Coalson, Weatherford, TX...... $55,977 ried Bonnelli to event earnings 6. Peptoboonsmal...... $223,773 6. Jill Long, Gardnerville, NV...... $53,368 of $13,438. Mary Ann Rapp, of 7. Grays Starlight...... $208,347 7. Janet Westfall, Los Olivos, CA...... $48,182 Weatherford, Texas, has ridden 8. Dual Pep...... $206,814 8. Thomas Deregt, Carmel, CA...... $46,057 eight horses to the pay window 9. Freckles Playboy...... $205,543 9. Katie Young, Sebastopol, CA...... $45,996 and is the No. 2 Non-Pro rider with 10. CD Royal...... $178,952 10. Carol Ward, Ranch Murieta, CA...... $43,533 total earnings of $83,522 High Brow Cat sired 64 PCCHA A B Derby, Classic & Challenge

money earners who won a total Midge Ames of $574,066, for an average of QHN File Photo $8,970. His top-earning offspring is Smooth As A Cat. The second- leading sire is Smart Little Lena with 78 money earners having won a total of $443,952 for a $5,692 average. ★

C D A) High Style Travalin and Gavin Jordan Cam Cam Essick Midge Ames B) Tim Smith

C) Sandy Bonelli and Smart Little Rondee

D) High Brow Cat

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t’s important to keep your horse as comfortable as possible while on the road, at a show, trail ride or other equine event. Here are 10 tips for I safely caring for your horse while away from home. Nutrition that his immune system function encourages your horse to drink • Feed. It is important that travel well. Adding a vitamin and mineral water while traveling. Orally admin- not be accompanied by a dramatic supplement to your horse’s feed one istered electrolytes also encourage a change in your horse’s diet. Any month prior to travel will help boost horse to consume more water. adjustments to your horse’s feed his immune system. should be made at least two weeks • Hay. Horses are healthiest when prior to travel, so his body has • Water consumption. A horse allowed to graze periodically during adjusted by the time you are on the sweats when nervous, which, when long trips. In addition, a hay man- road. combined with warm weather, can ger, bag or net allows your horse to intensify his loss of salt and water. “snack” in the trailer as he chooses, • Supplements. Your horse will be Providing salt, sprinkled over your yet helps keep the trailer free of exposed to various diseases dur- horse’s feed or in block form, helps blowing hay – a respiratory hazard. ing his travels, so it is important supplement any deficiency and

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Tack & equipment on your horse to help keep his hair around inside the trailer, pour a row • Halters. Nylon webbing or coat clean during travel and to pre- of shavings along the trailer wall rope halters are the strongest and vent blemishes caused by rubbing where your horse stands. most reliable for travel. Shipping against trailer walls. or “break-away” halters come off • Tying. If your horse’s head will too easily – a liability on the road- • Shoes. A shod horse is less likely be tied while traveling, the tie-down side during an emergency or in the to chip or splinter a hoof during should be located at chest height or middle of a crowded trailer. A halter travel, but farrier work should be higher, and the lead long enough to should fit comfortably, tight enough done at least one week in advance of allow your horse to stand upright to be secure and not get caught your trip. Your horse’s hooves might or drop his head toward the floor. easily on any part of the trailer, yet be tender after trimming or shoeing, Horses rely on lowering their head loose enough to prevent rubbing, so give him sufficient recovery time for two reasons: to lower their center bruises or soreness. before he travels, when balance and of gravity for stability and to allow comfort are critical. their nasal passages to drain mucus • Leg protection. The use of leg and debris. wraps helps prevent injury to your Trailer environment horse while traveling, during loading • Air circulation. Concentrated • Trailer safety. Your horse can and unloading, or by another horse ammonia fumes from your horse’s suffer injury any number of ways in an adjacent stall. Cotton pad- urine can burn his respiratory when being hauled in a trailer. ding around a horse’s hocks, held in tract, irritating it and making him The edge of a step-up trailer floor, place by veterinary wrap or Velcro more susceptible to disease. To help where your horse enters, should fasteners, is the most comfort- ensure good ventilation in your have a padded, rubber bumper. Your able and economical option for leg trailer, open windows and vents, but horse’s back legs could catch on this wraps. Use of duct tape around the make sure there are bars or mesh edge during loading, causing minor leg wraps helps ensure they do not screens in place to protect your cuts or lacerations. Stall dividers come off during travel. horse’s head from any debris flying should be in good-working order, outside the trailer. with no sharp edges, loose pieces or • Horse blanket. If your horse other potential hazards. Maintain is destined for, or will be travel- • Bedding. Wood shavings help your trailer for safe travel, routinely ing through, cold environments, an absorb urine and alleviate some checking such things as the floor- insulated blanket helps him retain of the ammonia fumes. But rather ing, tires, brakes, hitch, and door body heat. When you are traveling to than cover the entire trailer floor and window latches. a competitive event, regardless of the with shavings, which causes a —Ryan Thomas Bell season, place a lightweight blanket needless amount of debris to blow In The Know USRider Introduces Handy Mobile Phone App

USRider, the national provider of roadside emergency assistance for equestrians, recently introduced its USRider Roadside, a new mobile-phone application designed to provide its members with a tool for mak- ing service requests and dispatches more efficient.

The service is available 24/7, and the new app provides members the convenience of requesting emergency roadside assistance electronically. Membership and vehicle informa- tion will be stored by the app in order for USRider member includes standard features such as flat-tire repair, battery care specialists to quickly locate the member’s account and assistance, lockout services and roadside repairs for tow place a call to them. Also, the GPS-enable technology will vehicles and trailers with horses, plus towing up to 100 allow USRider to pinpoint the member’s location and accu- miles. As an additional service, USRider maintains a national rately dispatch service. database that includes emergence stabling, veterinary and In its 12th year of operation, USRider is the only company farrier referrals, when needed by its members. to provide emergency roadside assistance to horse own- For more information on the USRider Equestrian Motor ers. Through the Equestrian Motor Plan, USRider provides Plan, visit usrider.org online or call 800-844-1409. For nationwide roadside assistance and towing services along safety and travel tips, visit Equine Travel Safety Area on the with other travel-related benefits to its members. The plan USRider website. ★

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he old cliché, “It’s a small world,” California Chrome, the soon-to-be rang true recently for two-time winner of this year’s Kentucky Derby World’s Greatest Horseman and Preakness races.

T QHN File Photo and cow horse trainer Ron Ralls, of Following the Derby victory, Ralls Gainesville, Texas. The California asked Coburn if he was going to stay native was surprised to receive a with the horse and accompany him phone call at the end of April from to Baltimore, Md., for the Preakness an old high school friend he had not – the second leg of the Triple Crown. talked to since June of 1972. Ralls laughed as he recalled his friend The friend, Steve Coburn, who now quickly replied, “Oh no, I’ve got a race- lives in Nevada, tracked Ralls down horse in training. I’ve got to get back after watching a televised equine to work; I’ve got things to pay for!” program featuring Ralls. He called Coburn’s sense of humor showed to catch up on what had transpired Ron Ralls through when he told Ralls there had during the years they’d lost track of been talk about the possibility of a one another. He also wanted Ralls on a horse during the call, was so movie being made about “Chrome’s” to know that he, too, had “kind of surprised that he said, “I about fell life and accomplishments. When gotten” into the horse business. “We off my horse!” asked who Coburn would like to have a racehorse,” Coburn said, Ralls, who describes Coburn as “a play his part, he replied, “Well, John “who is said to be the fastest horse very humble guy,” said Coburn never Wayne is gone!” on American soil at this point in mentioned that he and his partner, Ralls said he hopes a movie about time. We’re going to take him to the Perry Martin, had turned down a $6 Chrome is made. “And, I hope it’s Kentucky Derby.” million offer for 51 percent interest in about a Triple Crown winner that Admittedly, Ralls, who was sitting the handsome sorrel stallion named came from nowhere!” —TL ★

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Back Dreams Do Doug Leahy in the Come True Day As a youngster, Doug Milholland sat in the grandstands watching performance horse classes and thought to himself, “I can do that!” Growing up on his family’s Colorado mountain ranch, he developed and lived by the old adage, “Don’t be afraid to dream.” He wasn’t. Milholland learned at an early age the variety of skills it takes to be a successful ranch hand – many of which he put to good use as he developed into a sought-after and successful trainer and showman. An all-around hand, Milholland competed in everything from showmanship and pleasure to barrel racing and roping before he caught the “reining bug” in the late 60s. Milholland is pic- tured astride How D Mae Bee (Tee Jay Super Jack x Skip Mae Montelon x Skip Turry), a 1979 gray stallion bred by Howard Dahlof, of Kirkman, Iowa, that he rode to win the 1983 National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Derby Open as Doug Milholland and How D Mae Bee well as the 1983 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) World Show Junior Reining and 1984 AQHA World Show Senior Reining. Milholland won the NRHA Futurity Open in 1990, riding Two T Whisky Royal, aka Silver Anniversary, and the Reserve Championship three times (1988, on Rest Stop; 1991, on Denim Jac; 1992, on Fancy Jac). Through the years, Milholland has entertained and captivated freestyle reining audiences and See the Action won numerous championships. An AQHA and NRHA judge and NRHA Hall of Fame inductee, Milholland has dedicated his life to furthering the sport of reining and mentoring youth, non-pros and professionals to a higher level of horsemanship. Milholland, 63, and his wife of 41 years, Valerie, have two grown children, six grandchildren and four step-grandchildren and live near Purcell, Okla., where they operate their breeding facility, Doug Milholland Performance Horses. They live their lives following the philoso- phy: “Sometimes you need to just stop and be thankful… for Heaven and hope, See more video action at family and friends, sunshine and rain, and reining horses!” ★ www.youtube.com/quarterhorsenews

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