SWRHA Futurity
McCutcheon Wins SWRHA Custom Made Dunit Non Pro Futurity
The Custom Made Dunit Non Pro Futu-
rity was held Friday, October 25, at the Hardy Murphy Coliseum in Ardmore, Okla. The one go-round event provides reiners looking to- wards Oklahoma City a chance to compete for big money and last-minute experience. Mandy McCutcheon’s entry, Coronas At
Night, has shown she has all the talent to com- pete in the upper echelons of reining competi- tion - but a win hadn’t happened yet. “She has had her ups and downs this fall. She’s always had enough talent, and all her maneuvers have been good. She’s just had some quirks we’ve had to overcome,” McCutcheon said. “We were just trying to see what we need to do to get her ready for the big futurity. “If Friday’s run is any indication, the pair is on the right track, marking a 219.5 to win $5,594. “She just walked in and did everything I asked her to do. She stayed real hooked up. She walked in and turned well. We might have had a turn penalty on my first turn, but I was really happy with her,” McCutcheon said. “She was much better this week than she’s been at other shows.” Mandy and her husband Tom raised Co-
ronas At Night, by Gunners Special Nite out of One Last Corona. “We had raised a couple others out of her dam that I did well with,” she said. With 30 horses at the SWRHA Fu- turity and Horse Show, the McCutcheon crew is going many directions. “Cade, Carlee, Tom, Fernando, and Debbie are all showing here, so we’re staying busy,” she said. “It takes a whole village. All the people in the barn play a part in getting me where I need to go. We are all always looking out for each other.”
The Other Winners Ginger Schmersal hadn’t been in the mar-
ket for a futurity horse. She’d won the Rocky Mountain Reining Horse Association Non Pro Futurity on Black Gun Face. But when her daughter Addisyn’s horse was lost to colic, it was a no-brainer for her to pass him on. “It was hard to give him up, but there was no hesita- tion. She needed a horse. She works hard at it - harder than I do. She eats, breathes, and sleeps it, and puts the time in,” Schmersal said. The search was on, and she found Mobstop, a three-
14
year-old mare by HF Mobster out of Stop Lit- tle Sister. “I purchased her from Connie and Amy Stoney in Tulsa at the beginning of Sep- tember. She’s new to me and to the program, but the Stoneys did a great job getting her to where she is, and then she’s had a crash course with our program,” she said. Schmersal took the
mare to the Best of the West, finishing near the top of the leaderboard and pocketing close to $5,000. “She was su- per out there. I’m tickled with her.” She added, “She is super-minded. She has handled all the pressure we put on her.” At the SWRHA Futu- rity, Schmersal and the mare marked a 217.5 to finish second in the Level 4, and win the Level 3 and Prime Time, collecting $6,792. “She was fantastic today. In the makeup pen she was a little uptight. It was cold and we didn’t have anywhere to lunge yesterday or today because of the weather, and she’s the type that needs to be out to play a bit. “I got her out early and took my time
warming up. I missed, like, six lead changes out there on her, but the minute we walked through the gate she took a deep breath and was with me the whole time. I was stunned,” Schmersal said. “She showed like a champ. She did that with me at the Best of the West. I think she’s a show horse and wants to be by herself and have the stage.” Schmer -
sal noted that Friday’s perfor- mance gave her more confidence
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McCutcheon & Coronas At Night
going into Oklahoma City for the Futurity. “I thank my husband. Without him, I wouldn’t be where I am. Of course I thank Connie and Amy Stoney, as well as our staff, friends, fam- ily and customers that are there to support us,” she said.
Kelle Smith and Spookadoodlede, by
Tricked Out Spook out of Tivitos Top Starlet, finished reserve in the Level 3 and Prime Time with a 216.5, and also placed fourth in the Lev- el 4. All totaled, Smith won $4,380. Addisyn Schmersal has never shown a
Schmersal & Black Gun Face
Addisyn
futurity horse, with Black Face Gun she has now won big money at two of the three events they’ve competed at. Scoring a 215.5, the pair won the Non Pro Levels 1 and 2, and placed in Levels 3 and 4, for earnings totaling $5,339. “I showed him in Tulsa but overspun, and then I showed him at Best of the West and won the Level 1 & 2. He’s a re- ally fun horse. I love to circle him, and his stops are fun, too. He’s really sweet,” she said of Black Gun Face, by Pale Face Dunit out of Blazing In Black. “The first couple of days riding him were difficult because I’ve never had a three-year- old to ride, but it’s been fun ever since.” Despite a small
bobble, Schmersal noted
Mandy
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