Mike Hachtel, aboard Iron Chef, is all smiles as he’s congratulated after winning the Equine Chronicle $135,000 Color Classic Friday evening. This was the second Color Classic win for Hachtel, who won the very first Equine Chronicle Color Classic in 2004 aboard Scenic Impulse.
The 2007 Champion Rider was the 2006 Reserve Champion with Sensational Lolipop, for owners Debi and Loren East, who also own Iron Chef.
Congratulations!
Wayne Davis models one of the hats belonging to the late Ann Call that was auctioned off prior to the start of the Equine Chronicle $135,000 Color Classic Friday evening at the Reichert Celebration.
Ann Call passed away on July 3 of this year due to complications from diabetes. Her husband, Rodger, brough 17 hats to the Reichert Celebration for a memorial benefit auction for the proceeds to go the Juvenile Diabetes, a cause close to Ann’s heart.
The benefit auction brought out warm hearts, teary eyes and deep pockets. An amazing
The infield of the racetrack at Tulsa Expo Square provides the secured parking area for horse trailers during the Reichert Celebration. “The number of trailers and space required made it necessary for us to find a secure parking area for them,” said Terry Schroeder of the Reichert Celebration. “Trailers are checked in upon parking and checked out at departure, offering another exhibitor service here at the Celebration.”
Shirley Roth wins the Sundowner Intermediate Two Year Old Western Pleasure Premiere Signature Class Wednesday night at the Reichert Celebration, this year aboard Zip Me A Hot Kiss for owner Alana Brown. Roth won the first Sundowner Intermediate Two Year Old Western Pleasure class last year showing Zip Me After.
Roth had the mare as a baby, started her training and then sold her to Brown, her client. “It didn’t take much talking to convince Alana to pay the entry fee on this class for this mare,” Roth said following the class. “She’s small but mighty.”
Mitch Adkins lopes forward to Good N Dandy Mac during the Sundowner Intermediate 2 Year Old Western Pleasure Premiere Signature class Wednesday evening at the Reichert Celebration in Tulsa. Adkins was obviously a favorite of many in the crowd when his number was announced in the individual judge’s placings.
Adkins was also the lucky winner of a year’s use of the Sundowner 3H slant trailer, from Coast To Coast Trailer Sales and Sundowner.
Good N Dandy Mac, sired by Macs Good N Plenty, is owned by Dean and Marlys Adkins and shown by their son, Mitch.
Movin The Sky was orphaned as a young foal and grew up into a big white horse, according to exhibitor Nancy Sue Ryan. George and DeDe Shaw own Movin The Sky, sired by Skys Blue Boy. He placed seventh in the Western Hauler Novice Horse 3 Year Old & Over Hunter Under Saddle Premiere Signature Class on Tuesday at the Reichert Celebration.
Shannon Gillespie aboard Pretty Vegas receives the champion’s floral wreath at the conclusion of the Western Hauler Novice Horse 3 Year & Over Hunter Under Saddle Premiere Signature Class on Tuesday night during the Reichert Celebration.
Gillespie, from Appleton, Wisconsin, has won several awards in APHA and AQHA competition as an amateur/non-pro exhibitor. She and her husband, Tim, both gave up their non-pro status this year to train and show for clients.
“We’ve had this mare all year and she’s been great. She’s been to just four events and has earned nearly 300 points, including an APHA World Championship last month, said Gillespie in an interview following the win.
“She showed earlier today so we just tried to keep her cool and fresh for tonight and she was great.”
Raised in Iowa, where the Reichert Celebration was founded, Shannon grew up showing American Quarter Horses. The sire of Pretty Vegas, Real Bonanza, is also an Iowa resident.
Shannon Gillespie canters Pretty Vegas forward to accept the champion awards in Tuesday’s Western Hauler Novice Horse 3 Year Old & Over Hunter Under Saddle Premiere Signature Class.
Pretty Vegas met the novice horse requirements for the class on January 1, 2007 and has been to four events this year – with better results than a good Vegas slot machine. She was crowned the APHA 2007 World Champion in Junior Hunter Under Saddle and Reserve Champion in the 3 Year Old Hunter Under Saddle Challenge. Pretty Vegas has already earned nearly 300 points in her short career this year.
Pretty Vegas is owned by Margaret and Anneliese Benesh and was shown by Shannon Gillespie to win $7,500, the custom Reichert Celebration Premiere Signature Class Excellence In Motion bronze trophy designed by Jodi Finkenbinder and the custom silver trophy buckle.
Randy Snodgrass of Arena Werks presents the drag to Brent Garringer, winner of the boot race for the Limited Maturity Exhibitors on Tuesday at the Reichert Celebration. Garringer works for Ty Hornick.
Brent Garringer bested the competition from the other exhibitors in the Limited Maturity on Tuesday in the boot race for the Arena Werks drag at the Reichert Celebration. Handlers for the horses were invited to the arena to hold horses while the exhibitors gave up their boots into three piles at the other end of the arena. In chaps and socked-feet, the exhibitors ran from the start to the end of the arena, found their boots out of the piles, put them on and raced back to the finish.
