	A few of the great horses I've had the privilege to train . . .

Touch Me Not, aka "Lily" Owned by Mike Elliott, Michigan, Lily won the POA International Western Pleasure Futurity and was named Reserve High Point 2 year old. I had the pleasure to start this filly and ride her for 3 months. She could buck as high as the top of the stalls, but when she decided to quit, she was all business. Now she's a champion.
	Smokin Calico Lynx, APHA/PtHA, Reserve World Champion in Working Cow Horse and Youth Reining. While not one of the greatest reining horses I've ever trained, she was an amazing cow horse. She'd score a solid 70 in the dry work and 73 to 75 in the cow work. She is an NRCHA money earner. She earned an APHA superior and honor roll titles in reining. She was a great teacher for first time reiners. I've always regretted selling her. I loved her a lot.

Sonnys Superman AQHA/APHA. What a great stallion, a cropout by the great Sonny Dee Bar, AQHA. He had the perfect disposition for a show horse and a sire. We earned 111 points the two years I rode him including Superior titles in several events including horsemanship and reining and #1 Honor Roll titles and 4th place in Western Riding at the APHA World Show. The picture here is the two of us being awarded two 2-horse trailers for year end high point awards. I showed amateur for a couple of years after I lost Dee and lost my confidence to train. Sonny helped bring that confidence back, because no one else rode him but me.

	Karen Clegg, known by most as Dee or Dee Dee, was my first experience training a reining horse. She's the greatest horse I've ever owned or ever ridden. We were connected. She was never defeated in reining competition and qualified for the AQHA World Show the first year shown. (I have to give credit to my reining training mentor Roy Yates. Without his well planned curriculum, we would have never trained this great mare to her full potential) I was unable to show her at the World Show, so I attended a Bob Loomis clinic. Bob rode her there, putting her thru all her paces. He said she was one of the 4 greatest reining mares he'd ever ridden. She was killed in a tragic accident without ever being shown again. When she died, part of me died with her. She's never far from my thoughts. She was truly one of those horses that was a gift.

JP My Blue Heaven, APHA/PtHA grullo overo mare. Blue is a result of years of selective breeding. She's the great great granddaughter of Panita Ann, my great QH mare. She's earned APHA points when shown by a novice amateur. For several years, she served as my demonstration horse in my clinics to demonstrate the 5 step training program. This horse finished in the top 10 at the 2007 Pinto World Show. Of course, she's trained to the higher levels of riding including two tracking, half passes at all gaits, flying lead changes and spins. She's 16.2 and as athletic as if she were 14.2 She is now proudly owned by Regina Davis, age 10, from Yukon, Oklahoma. She will be shown in Paint and Pinto.	Photo by Theresa Toews
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	Panita Ann was my first youth QH mare and what a great one she was. This is where my love of training horses all started. This picture shows us winning my first saddle as the youth all-around at the QH show in Thermopolis, Wyoming. She and I went on to qualify for the first AQHA Junior World show held in Amarillo in 1970. She placed in the top 5 in 6 different events. She's also the foundation of several of the Paint horses I show today.

More beautiful horses to come - please visit again soon.