World Show News
NOHSA World Championship Concludes
Written by Connie Lechleitner
The inaugural National Open Horse Show Association’s World Championship Show concluded on Sunday, September 12, with Ranch Rail, Ranch Riding, Ranch Trail, Ranch Conformation, Western Pleasure, Horsemanship and timed event classes at Cloverdale, Indiana, with many happy faces and lots of steep competition.
Attendees agreed that they enjoyed the show and would be returning in 2022. “I loved the show,” noted Morganne Slaght, of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. “We’re already talking about making stall and camping reservations for 2022, because we think it will be a very big show next year.”
“We were very excited about the NOHSA World Show, and wanted to come and support it,” noted Steven ‘Chunk’ Watts, of Ashland, Ohio. “We had four members of our club, Ashland Paint & Plain Saddle Club, showing at this year’s world show. We are telling all of our members about it.”
High Point Small Fry Brinlee Alexander enjoyed the prizes she won at the NOHSA World Show. “The plate was my favorite,” she said. “I also got a back pack. It was a lot of fun to show here.”
Getting Ranchy
Sunday morning started with Ranch Horse classes that included Adult and Youth Ranch Rail, Ranch Riding and Ranch Trail, as well as Ranch Conformation.
The judges put exhibitors and their mounts through a rigorous workout to determine the winner of the Ranch Rail 19 & Over, using extended jog and extended lope gaits in both directions, and during the line-up, exhibitors were asked to step forward, perform a 360 turn and then back into line. Cheryl Lee Moore showed her handy buckskin mare, Playboys Next Of Kin, to the world title.
“I’m really shocked,” Cheryl said. “I’ve ridden all my life, but I’ve only been doing Ranch Riding classes this year, and I came to this show by myself. There’s usually a group of about ten of us that show together. I’ve had Flashy for five years, and we have contested, did Reining and now we’re doing Ranch Riding. Nobody knows how much this means to me to win this world championship title.”
In the Ranch Riding 19 & Over pattern class, RHM Buenos Nu Cash and Jenny Rohlen-Barker were named world champions. “We call my gelding Hippo the Horse,” laughed Jenny. “He was a Reiner earlier in his career, and I used to use him for Walk Trot riding lessons, but when I stopped teaching, we started doing Ranch classes, and I was hooked.
“He always gives me his heart, and he will work for carrots. Today’s pattern had a lot of tricky parts to it, and it was different than what we are used to, so it was a good challenge. We’ve never won a world title, so this was great!”
In Youth Ranch Trail 18 & Under, Lainey Kincaid showed Monarchs Golden Jule to become NOHSA world champions. “I’ve had Monarch for four years,” Lainey said. “He’s nineteen years old. He’s funny because he has these great facial expressions. We sometimes say that we think he has Tourette’s syndrome, because he never stops moving.”
The soft spoken eighteen-year-old shows often around the East Troy area of Wisconsin at Open shows. Lainey and Monarch entered nearly every NOHSA youth class, making the most of her final year as a youth exhibitor. “I’m still figuring out what I want to do after high school, but I may be going to the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater,” she said.
Western Pleasure Winners
Danita Drake and her gelding Rock One Seven kicked off the Western Pleasure classes by winning the world championship in Walk Trot Western Pleasure 19 & Over. The number 17 in the bible refers to “overcoming the enemy,” “complete victory,” and “perfection.” So when the number kept coming up in Danita Drake’s life, she took notice, naming her home-bred gelding Rock One Seven, as well as naming her ranch Ranch One Seven.
“I bred his mother in 2017, met my fiancé in 2017, and my fiance’s birthday is on the 17th, so that number just kept showing up,” Danita said. “My gelding, we call him Duane, is home-raised and home-trained and he’s by The Rock. We showed him at the NSBA World Championship Show in Yearling Longe Line, and placed third in the Non-Pro. He’s just always been a really nice colt, and very easy to work with – something that’s so important when you are a Non-Pro!”
Danita and Duane also won $130 in cash as the winners of the $250 Added Walk Trot Western Pleasure.
In the Youth 18 & Under Walk Trot Western Pleasure, She Willy Likes It and Machaela Cobler were named world champions. “Her name is Debbie, and she’s by Winnies Willy,” Machaela said. “I’ve had her for four years, and she’s six now. We primarily show in Western Pleasure.
“We show at a lot of Open shows around Indiana and Ohio, and we went to the NSBA World Show this year for the first time,” Machaela said. “There were several friends who all wanted to show here at the World Show, so we all came to show together. My mom first heard about NOHSA and got us interested in it.”
Machaela and Debbie were also named world champions in Youth Western Pleasure 14-18, and earned $130 as first place winners in the $250 Added Open Western Pleasure.
Western Pleasure 19 & Over saw Now You Know and Victoria Ingram named world champions. “My horse Gabe is a seven year old ApHC gelding, and I started riding him last year,” Victoria said. “He’s very in your pocket and he doesn’t chill out a lot, he’s always wherever you are.
“I had taken four years off to go to college, so this is my first year back showing again. We show around Western Pennsylvania with the Pennsylvania Amateur group, and we’ve shown at Pinto and Appaloosa shows along with Open shows. We came to the IBHA Buckskin World Show here last year at C Bar C so we were familiar with the facility.
Victoria saw success with two different horses at the NOHSA World Show, earning a world title on her other horse, Flippen Good Time, in Trail 19 & Over.
Happy Horsemanship Champions
Emily Dinnen and Bar Hoppin Along brought their A game to the Walk Trot Horsemanship 19 & Over, and were named world champions in the class.
“I bought him in 2020, and we didn’t get to really show much last year due to COVID,” Emily said. “This is really our first full year showing together. It’s been fun to figure him out. We’ve been showing for the past six months or so in Western Pleasure and Horsemanship, mostly around the Springfield, Ohio, area with Miami Valley Horse Show Association. My barn in Springfield is Royal Creek Farm, and there are several of us here showing.
“We were looking for something different to do, and to go somewhere new, and when this show was announced, we had planned to come here from the beginning. We had some truck and trailer issues, and even as of Wednesday, we weren’t sure if we would get to come, but we made it!”
Susan Rogers considers her world championship in Horsemanship 50 & Over as her comeback story. She showed Dream Girl to a unanimous decision in the class.
“I broke my hip last September, and I ended up having to have two surgeries because there were complications,” she said. “I just got back in the saddle at Easter, and I just started loping again in June. I went to my first show to qualify July first. If it hadn’t been for my trainer, Don Barton, believing in me and encouraging me, I would never have been here.
“Don just told me, ‘you’re going to do this,’ so we did, just going after things little by little. My horse, Dream Girl, is tough, but not mean, so she makes you work for it. Sometimes you have to convince her to do things. But when she’s on, she’s great.”
A Need For Speed
In the timed events, Cheryl Lee Moore returned to the arena with her second horse to win her second world championship title in Pole Bending 19 & Over. Misty Berg and KN Fabulous Be Flyy had the best time in Barrels 19 & Over to win the world championship title.
McKenzie Brown and Whata Hayday were two-time world champions, winning both Youth Barrels and Youth Pole Bending. “We heard about the show through friends, so we thought it would be fun to come here and show,” McKenzie said.
High Point Champions
High Point Champions were awarded for several divisions at the 2021 NOHSA World Championship Show and included:
19 & Over High Point
Maureen Pappas & The Best Margarita
14-18 High Point
Morganne Slaght & Two Skip Investment
13 & Under High Point
Preslee Tauer & Oh My Shes Awesome
Small Fry 9 & Under High Point
Brinley Alexander & DGS Hot Hot Hot Iron
To view complete show results from the 2021 National Open Horse Show Association’s World Championship Show or learn how to qualify for the 2022 World Championship Show, please visit www.nohsa.net.
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