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Addison Paulsen, Lauren Pursley, and Tatum Richey.


Bluebonnet Country Reined


Cow HA will host a clinic, activi- ties, and competitionat Brenham’s January 26-28. There will JACK- POT RANCH RIDING and JACK- POT REINING classes. fmi, Mark Mills, 281.684.4493.


Lost Horizon Ranch, Bryan,


will kick off 2018 February 17. Lost Horizon horse shows and playdays began in 1985. There have been some changes for 2018, including the fact that horse show and playday events will be on the same day. fmi, www.losthorizonranch.org.


Braggin’ Rights! Bobbye Kitchener, Santa Fe,


lived in her home from 1968 until Hurricane Harvey delivered 58 inches of rain in 4 days. That flooded her home for the first time ever and destroyed it. She has always been in- volved with horses and she and her late husband, Kenneth, were 4-H leaders for many years. The home held lots of equine memorabilia ranging from the 60s until almost the present. Most of the hard-won treas- ures were lost, but some miracu- lously endured. Prepping for the storm, some 4-H record books were stored in a big Ziploc bag that re- mained intact. Having lost so much, daughter Daisy Chenoweth was thrilled to find photos from her first pee-wee class long ago and others showing her father with her oldest son at a show. Recently she also lo- cated the buckle she got when she showed the champion aged gelding at the 1986 Texas State 4-H Horse show.


Kyla Cobb, Canyon, won the


$2K Limited Rider class both No- vember 11 and 12, at Panhandle Cutting HA’s shows in Amarillo. She and She Rey Rey, owned by


Wilson with the Ranch Horse All-Around trophy saddle.


Leslie Graor, marked 73 both days! Londyn Renae Sheppardwas


born November 17, to Erin and Lit- tle Harold Sheppard, Nacogdoches, TX. Brother Jordan welcomed her too!


Gracie Moreland, Fort Worth,


won the HP English Rider title at the APHA Margarita Classic in Fort Worth November 19, and was also circuit champion for novice youth showmanship and novice youth eq- uitation.


Brianna Gonzalez, Spring, re-


cently signed a National Letter of In- tent to ride with Texas Christian University’s hunt seat team for the 2017-2018 season.


Bernie Kirkland, Weatherford,


was selected by NCHA and the Am- ateur Committee to receive the 2017 Mary Kingsbury Amateur Sports- manship Award recently. He be- came an NCHA member in 1981, and since then, he has served the As- sociation and the members in many different capacities, including as a competitor, owner, area director, and member of standing committees. The Mary Kingsbury Amateur Sportsmanship award is given to an amateur who is dedicated to the sport of cutting, in good standing and exhibits good sportsmanship, fairness and a high moral character


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MTQHA President Jane Fultman presented Lance


and has made extraordinary con- tributions to the sport of cutting, the horse and the association through their contribution of time, effort and interest in the NCHA and its basic endeavors. Those words describe Kirkland to a T!


Alice Durkin, Hempstead,


is an incredibly talented artist and recently launched her website, www.alicedurkinsart.com, which includes an online store of her prints and framed originals. Originally from Australia, she rides cutting horses and is a member of NCHA and ACHA.


Christa Morris Stone, Yukon,


OK, was Novice Amateur Top Cowhand at American Ranch Horse Association’s Region 4 Champi- onship Show in late November!


Arielle Wortham, Wimberly,


earned the top scholarship, $2,000, in the 2017 AQHA Ranching Her- itage Young Horse Development Program. Her horse, Jiffy Wild Card, was bred and donated to the program by Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Waters, Utopia, TX. The program was created in 2011, to give AQHYA members an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of horse- manship, using horses bred by AQHA Ranching Heritage Breeders and donated to the program as wean- lings for the program participants to evaluate, raise, and train. fmi, www.aqha.com/yhd.


Kennedy Bryant, Madis-


onville, won NAAC Siler Spurs Equine Rookie of the Year Novem- ber 30, on her own All Nite Spook and representing Southwest Reining HA in Oklahoma City. She also won the NAAC Rookie Level 2 out of 63 riders, the $200-added NRHA Rookie Level 2, and NRHA Rookie Level 1.


Franco Bertolani, Aubrey, be-


came NRHA’s newest $1 Million Rider at the NRHA Futurity De- cember 1. Though born in Brazil, he is head trainer for Cardinal Reining


Horses in Aubrey, and competed in the Lucas Oil Open Futurity Finals on 2 half-siblings owned by Cardi- nal Hill. He placed 5th on Masked Gun, earning over $45K, and 20th on Chex for Nite, earning over $10K, bumping him over the cov- eted million-dollar mark!


Mark Mills, Brookshire, ended


the recent NCHA World Finals plac- ing in the top 15 in $5,000 Novice Horse competition, riding One Time A Cat, owned by the Spiers family and earning $11,168 for the year. This made 17 horses that Mills has ridden to top World placings!


Chasity and Mason Griffin,


Pioneer, LA, ended a successful NCHA show year December 3 in Fort Worth. Chasity and Boonsos- mal were Area 14 $2,000 Novice- Rider champions, while Mason and Smart Quixote Boon were $5,000 Novice champions.


Nora Gray, a senior on South-


ern Methodist University’s eques- trian team, was named on December 7 as United Equestrian Conference’s November Equitation OF Rider of the Month.


Avery Ellis, College Station,


was Southeastern Conference’s Horsemanship Rider of the Month of November. Ellis is a senior at Texas A&M University.


Kamryn Byrd, Denham


Springs, LA, was AA Novice-Youth champion, and her Lazy Like Honey was HP English Horse, at Missis- sippi Amateur QHA’s Holiday Clas- sic in Jackson, MS, December 8-10.


Randy Weston Head, Marble


Falls, and Pixel Dancer “Dixie” were recognized as Permian Basin Paint Horse Association’s Novice Amateur Ranch Horse champions at PBPHA’s awards banquet Decem- ber 9. They won year-end titles for the individual classes Ranch Riding, Ranch Trail, Ranch Reining, Ranch Pleasure, and Ranch Cow Work. Dixie did all that while battling can- cer, to which she lost an ear. Now


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