On The Cover – Jeffrey Johns & Nothin But Nett

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10 – January/February, 2023

By Delores Kuhlwein

Audience members could have heard a pin drop on the morning of Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at the AQHA World Championship in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

For the first time in the show’s 48 years, a historic ride-off took place with Jeffrey Johns aboard two of his horses, Nothing But Nett and KM Flat Out The Best, to break his own tie of a score of 239.5 for the World Champion and Reserve titles in the L3 Amateur Trail Finals.

All eyes were on Jeffrey as he guided each horse through the tiebreaking runs, and when the scores were combined, Nothing But Nett, aka “Steph,” was announced the World Champion with a score of 243.5!

Jeffrey says he went in first on KM Flat Out The Best, and his trainers, Jim and Deanna Searles, had told him to show both horses to win again. “I really went in there to do my best on both of them, and Steph was even better than the first go,” he explains. “I’ve been lucky enough to ride a lot of cool Trail horses over the years, and he’s the most talented, and his instinct for the event is unlike any other.”

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10 – January/February, 2023