NSBA Announces Double Tapn as 2024 Horse of the Year

From NSBA:

The National Snaffle Bit Association recently announced that AQHA gelding Double Tapn, owned by Dan Fox, of Weatherford, Texas, has been named the association’s 2024 Horse Of The Year. Double Tapn is by Lil Joe Cash and out of Whiz N Snap (by Topsail Whiz) and was bred by Kiera Johnson.

The 2018 sorrel gelding known as ‘LJ’ saw Amateur Katie Fox as well as professionals Bud Lyon, Logan Pluhar, and Emilie Bendix Mathisen share showing duties on his way to earning NSBA’s Horse Of The Year title. Double Tapn is the second horse showing in primarily the Ranch division of NSBA competition to earn NSBA’s Horse Of The Year award.

The show team’s highlights from 2024 include world championships at the NSBA World Championship Show in Senior Ranch Riding and Senior Ranch Rail; wins in Amateur Ranch Trail, Amateur Ranch Rail and Senior Ranch Riding at the Arizona Sun Circuit; Senior Ranch Trail at the Redbud Spectacular; futurity championships in the Open Working Western Rail Stakes and the Open Ranch Riding Stakes at the All American Quarter Horse Congress; and AQHA world championships in Level 3 Amateur Ranch Trail, Level 3 Amateur Ranch Riding, Level 3 Amateur Working Western Rail, Open Ranch Rail and All Age Non-Pro Ranch Rail. Double Tapn also earned $50,784.83 in NSBA earnings in 2024.

As per the NSBA Rulebook, the Horse Of The Year title is determined based on NSBA participation, show record and points earned in the specified year.

Double Tapn will be recognized during the NSBA Honors banquet on Sunday, August 10, held at the NSBA Breeders Championship Futurity and World Championship Show, being held August 7-17 at the Built Ford Tough Livestock Complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Photos by Shane Rux Photography and Cody Parmenter Photography, courtesy of NSBA.