In January of 1995, I contacted Dee about breeding a mare to Temon. I hadn’t ever met her, but she instantly took me under her wing finding me a Futurity breeding and telling me about a good mare that she thought  would be a good cross on her stud. We bought Brilliant Conclusion. She was in foal, but we chose to buy only the mare and not the foal she was carrying. Unfortunately, the mare foaled unexpectedly and a large colt tore through her rectum and died. We were in the processing of moving from Missouri back to Texas, so Dee kept the mare, keeping her clean, giving her antibiotics, and keeping up with her reconstructive surgery. It was late in the year and Dr. Donnell bred her one time carefully inseminating her with a straw. Miraculously, she was in foal. 

While Norris was at Guffey, commercial photographers visited the ranch to shoot some cowboy photos for a Marlboro cigarette ad campaign. They took about 2,000 pictures that day, and a few months later, Norris found himself on the back cover of Life magazine.

AQHA World Championship Show veterinarian Glenn F. “Andy” Anderson III passed away on October 21, 2019, after a courageous battle with brain cancer.

We are saddened to relay the news that Select competitor and longtime horseman, Mark Purdy, passed away yesterday. Just last week, Mark was at the Select World Show where special arrangements were made to allow him to accompany his mare into the ring in a Halter class as well as being honored during a special ceremony with a trophy to commemorate his achievement of qualifying her for the show this year. 

He was a co-founder of God’s Cowboy Camp, a Western-style comfortable approach to leading people to the Lord. Wayne was a highly respected AQHA and APHA judge for over 30 years, giving him the opportunity to travel the world. He was one of only three trainers in the history of AQHA to train two Supreme Champions, which is the most challenging award a horse can earn in its career.