Aaron Moses Gets the Grand Slam in 2017!
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172 – January/February, 2018
By Delores Kuhlwein
“A man can do all things if he will,” once said Leon Battista Alberti, who epitomized the Uomo Universale (Ultimate or Renaissance Man) of Italy. People claim these Renaissance Men no longer exist, but Aaron Moses, who has been causing quite a stir with his success in the show pen in 2017, appears to be pushing the envelope to reach his full potential in a very convincing and comparable way.
Aaron explains the phenomenon as simply keeping his focus on his ambitions. “As long as I can remember, I’ve known what I wanted to do, so I’ve been pretty consistent in my goals in my career and in my life,” Aaron says.
The Grand Slam
His 2017 winning streak, a cue that his goals were attainable, began to attract attention when he rode It’s a Pretty Thing, a horse he had campaigned since January, in the Southern Ohio Quarter Horse Association Equine Chronicle Novice Horse Western Pleasure in Wilmington, Ohio, earning a $15,000 paycheck for owner Amy Gumz. Next up came the Little Futurity, and Aaron once again piloted It’s a Pretty Thing to the winners circle again, this time for owner Georgia Grace Medows to the tune of $9,928. The much-celebrated main event, the Southern Oaks $1,000 Novice Horse Western Pleasure Slot class, hosted eleven of the top novice Western Pleasure horses in the nation. The class had $25,000 added money and a special inside purse of $1,000 for the highest placing horse that had not won $1,000 prior to the start of the Futurity.
The duo racked up wins afterward in the Novice Horse class at the Tom Powers Futurity, tied to win the Limited Non-Pro at the Tom Powers, and won the Open 3-Year-Old, Non-Pro Three-YearOld, and Novice Horse at the Big A Circuit. Then, it was on to the 2017 NSBA World Show, with the pair taking the BCF 3-Year-Old Open Western Pleasure.
Aaron also stopped off at the 2017 APHA World Show to ride Scenic Freeze Frame, owned by the Koca Family, to a World Championship title in Junior Western Pleasure. He also showed Kid In A Candy Store, for owner Susan Juroe and trainers Tim and Shannon Gillespie, to a win in the Gold Breeders Futurity 3-YearOld Western Pleasure. “Thank you to Mike Hachtel and Tim and Shannon Gillespie for the opportunity to show these horses. All the credit goes to them!” Aaron says.
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