AQHA All Around Award Winner- Scott Reinartz and Investin A Goodbar

By: Brittany Bevis

Just recently, AQHA released the final standings for 2019, effectively crowning the year-end All Around award winners for each division.

• Markel Insurance All-Around Youth 13-&-Under: Lazy Lopin Guy and Sydney Sargent
• Markel Insurance All-Around 14-18: Zips Bossy Chip and Ellexxah Maxwell
• AQHA All-Around Select Amateur: Investin A Goodbar and Scott Reinartz
• AQHA All-Around Amateur: Solo Invested and Tony Anderman
• AQHA All-Around Junior Horse: Whose Your Bay Bae owned by Kelly Birkenholtz
• AQHA All-Around Senior Horse: Cruize owned by Stephanie Janis
• AQHA Leading Exhibitor: Jennifer Louise Paul

Over the next few weeks, we will be featuring several of these exhibitors to find out more about their journeys on the road towards achieving one of AQHA’s highest honors. First up is the Select All Around Champion for 2019- Scott Reinartz and Investin A Goodbar.

Scott and “Hank” have been a team for the past seven years and have accumulated numerous titles, including Congress and World Championships in numerous disciplines. They typically compete in all around classes like Trail, Showmanship, Performance Halter, Horsemanship, Pleasure Driving, and, “on a good day,” Western Riding.

Surprisingly though, the year-end all around award wasn’t even on Scott’s radar last year, because Hank was off for the summer mending an injury. They competed at the Florida Winter Circuits, in Las Vegas, and Arizona, but that’s where their show season came to a pause. “Hank didn’t show again until the Congress and the World Show. I thought the year was a wash, so we took the no rush approach to get him back into the show pen.”

Scott’s plan worked better than he could’ve ever imagined, and they were named the Congress Champions in Select Trail for the first time, as well as Select Showmanship. They were also named the All Around Select Champions for the show. One of Scott’s most memorable moments last year took place at the Congress in his first class of Pleasure Driving.

“Our first show back was the Congress,” he says. “We had only been riding Hank for about three weeks, and he was a little fresh. There was a storm blowing into Columbus that morning, and the tarps in front of the Celeste were blowing, which caused him to be very alert. We went into the class, and there was a squeaky cart. Hanks head went up, and I thought, ‘Here we go,’ as he loped off. Thank goodness he came right back into frame and nothing bad happened. We turned around and won gold in Oklahoma City at the World Show.”

With their show season being so short, Scott didn’t expect that he would receive any year-end acknowledgments. “Well surprise! AQHA decided to recognize the High Point Select Rider for the first time starting in 2019.”

“I have a lot of people to thank. Without this map of people, we would not have met. I want to thank Jim Dudley for breeding Hank and Jean Brooks and Dean Bogart for starting his career. I want to thank Mark Stevens for believing in Hank and in me. I want to thank my trainers, Bruce Vickery and Anthony Montes, for pushing us to be better. I want to thank all the vets, farriers, assistants, and my partner, Brent, for supporting this dream.”

Although the 2020 show season has been put on hold for the moment, Scott and Hank have a few goals they’d like to achieve. They would like to get a Superior in Pleasure Driving and compete at the Select World Show.

Scott believes it’s his commitment to his horses and his love of the sport that has helped him to achieve this title. “I also have a strong competitive drive. I give my all and want to do the best I can. Having trainers that expect me to perform at the level at which my horse performs also helps.”

“I started showing horses when I was 15 years old at a saddle club. I got my first horse when I was 16, and it was a weanling. I broke him out and did all the training myself. In 1999, I went to my first AQHA show and did very well in the novice division. I won some cool prizes, and I was hooked. I pointed out of the novice division and realized I was not educated enough to take my horse to the amateur level, be competitive, and win one of those beautiful globes.”

“I got a trainer, and that was the best thing ever. I rode really talented horses and really rotten horses. I bought and sold horses to upgrade and finally partnered with one that allowed me to live my dream. I’m forever grateful to so many people and horses that have lined my path in life.”

Stay tuned to EquineChronicle.com next week for another feature with the next All-Around winner. Who will it be?…