Luke Castle gained his second Congress Championship of the week for the Josh Weakly/Andy Staton duo when he won with Gamechanger in 2-Year-Old Geldings.
Continue reading …9/21 UPDATE: Just moments ago, Mary Norman led Mister Lincoln to a Congress Championship title in Amateur Weanling Geldings.
Continue reading …It was a nice and Quiet Ride, or longe rather, that helped Kenny Lakins win the Congress Championship title this evening in the Open Western Yearling Longe Line Stakes.
Continue reading …“I’ve been doing this a long time, and this is my first Congress Championship. I’m pretty excited.”
Continue reading …“He is a 17.2 hand horse, so those are kind of speed bumps for him,” she says. “It was really nice to see him jump up real hard. He came back and went around the ring really solid in the flat portion.”
Continue reading …UPDATE: Just moments ago, the battle of the brothers concluded with Gene Parker taking the title of Congress Grand Champion Stallion with Lisa and Donnie King’s Secret Gunfighter. The Reserve Grand Champion was Ross Roark with Acool Rockstar.
Continue reading …“He’s beautiful and pretty-headed,” Castle says. “He’s got a lot of stuff to him. He’s a really nice colt. He reminds me of Ima Cool Skip, when he was a baby”
Continue reading …“Our pastor always tells us to dream big, so we’ve been praying pretty big for top five or winning,” she says. “It was pretty fun.”
Continue reading …Given that the Weakly/Staton/Roark trio has done so well today, winning two Congress Champion titles, we wondered how they decided which horse would be shown in the Grand and Reserve class and by whom. Fortunately, this was a scenario they had discussed and planned for ahead of time.
Continue reading …The halter classes are quickly flying by this morning as the Grand and Reserve Mares class soon approaches. Two more contenders for the ultimate halter title were recently crowned: Jason Smith with HR Cool Secretdesign in Two-Year-Old Mares and Ted Turner with Dream Big Dreams in Yearling Mares.
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