It's that time of year...

FOR THE NRHA FUTURITY IN OKLAHOMA!
(what did you think I was going to say?!?!?!)

What is it????
3-year-old horses ridden for first place prize money of $125,000 with a total purse and prizes totaling over $1.5 Million to exhibitors! More than 1,800 horses and 4,000 exhibitors competing in all classes, three special reining horse sales, an intercollegiate judging contest, and approximately 70,000 spectators. NRHA's finest million dollar event held in late fall in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. If you are interested in learning more, click on the logo to get to the NRHA website. The website hosts livefeed to what's going on in the coliseum. Saturday night is the futurity finals, it's definitely worth watching!

More Videos!

I came across some videos I thought you may be interested in. If you have never seen these before they will be great examples of the sports they represent. For those of you interested in cutting and reining, you will get a kick out of these "oldies but goodies"!

Smart Little Lena is the all time leading cutting sire and one of only three horses to ever win the NCHA Triple Crown. The Triple Crown is made up of the Futurity, Super Stakes and Derby. Smart Little Lena's lifetime earnings: $743,275 in only eight shows! He has 550 money earnng offspring to date which have earned $26,565,935 and reining offspring have earned $484,412. He has sired 17 world champions and 11 reserve world champions.

I had the opportunity to visit Smart Little Lena while at the 2007 NRHA Futurity in Oklahoma. He still stands at stud at Tommy Manion Ranch in Aubrey, Texas. When I saw him, he had recently had surgery to remove one of his testicles which I believe was cancerous. He was recovering well. Smart Little Lena has been one of the first horses to ever have been cloned.

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(notice the goofy hats and outfits... ha ha)

Hollywood Dun It was by the great Hollywood Jac 86 and out of Blossom Berry, an own daughter of Dun Berry. During his show career, Hollywood Dun It was the National Reining Horse Association Futurity Reserve Champion, the NRHA Derby Champion and the Superstakes Champion. A 2000 NRHA Hall of Fame inductee, the beautiful dun stallion is the NRHA's Leading All-Time Sire of Reining Horses, with sons and daughters whose earnings have surpassed the $4 Million mark!

Hollywood Dun It, born is 1983, passed away in 2005. I was lucky enough to visit McQuay Stables in 2007 to see the former stall of the famous stallion, some of his stablemates and offspring (seen in the McQuay Stables Promotional video).

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(of Hollywood Dun it and Smart Chic Olena)

CLICK HERE TO SEE MCQUAY STABLES PROMOTIONAL VIDEO