 Oliver Gunnels Jr., trainer Salvador Cabral and Whos Your Daddy Doc Cutting classes
Smart Delta, a stallion owned by South Texas husband-and-wife ranchers Floyd and Mary Anne Moore, and trained and ridden by Carlos Banuelos, Jacksboro Texas, won the APHA 4-Year-Old Cutting Challenge title.
Smart Delta (Smart Little Lena x Alazuenas Flyer x Delta Flyer) and Banuleos won on three of five judges’ cards and finished second on two with three scores of 74 and two 72.5 marks.
Parking My Assets (Smart Little Lena x Bunnys Starlight x Peppy San Badger), a stallion owned by Parker Interest Group, Gainesville, Texas, and ridden by Ed Dufurrena, Gainesville, Texas, finished a close second by winning on two judges’ cards and placing second on three with three 73s and a 72.
Doc O Color, a 6-year-old tobiano mare owned by Kathy and Todd Bro, Roosevelt, Utah, and trained and ridden by Mike Wood, Scottsdale, Ariz., won the APHA World 5/6-Year-Old Cutting Challenge.
Doc O Color (Color Me Smart x Doc O Termite x Doc O Diamond) and Wood won on three of five judges’ cards with 75 scores and placed second on the other two. Doc O Color is the only Paint Kathy and Todd Bro own.
Reserve Champion Ten Colors (Color Me Smart x Little Tenina x Peppy San Badger and Tracy Barton, Penhook, Va., marked four 74s and won on two judges’ cards. Ten Colors, owned by Gary Rosenbach, Greenwich, Conn., and Barton won the 4-Year-Old Cutting Challenge and finished as Junior Cutting Reserve Champions at the 2006 APHA World Show. They did not compete at last year’s event.
Whos Your Daddy Doc, a 4-year-old red dun tobiano gelding, won two World Championships, claiming the Junior Cutting title with trainer Salvador Cabral, Sisterdale, Texas, while winning on all five judges’ cards, and earning the Amateur Championship with his owner, Oliver Gunnels Jr., Weatherford, Texas, in the saddle.
Gunnels, 46, a parking lot owner who owns four other horses trained by Cabral, sold Whos Your Daddy Doc (Abrakadabracre x Ima Hickory Model x Banditshickorytip), the first Paint horse he had owned, the same day the horse won two World Championships.
Smart N Stylish, a 7-year-old bay tobiano stallion owned by Weatherford, Texas, trainer Rick Mowery and his wife, Shelly, won a Senior Cutting title on four of five judges’ cards with Rick in the saddle. He and Smart N Stylish (Playing Stylish x Little Lena Boots x Smart Little Lena) marked three 74s and two 73s to win by a wide margin. The couple bought the horse, trained from the start by Rick, after Shelly borrowed him from his original owner for an NCHA Futurity Celebrity Cutting event in 2006. The horse carried Shelly to a victory in that event.
Cats Starlight, a 4-year-old stallion, and High Brow Doll, a 7-year-old gelding, both trained and ridden by Tracy Barton finished as World Champion and Reserve World Champion in the Solid Paint-Bred Cutting.
Cats Starlight (High Brow Cat x Lil Miss Starlight x Grays Starlight), owned by Melinda Cooper, Franklin, Ky., and Barton won on all four judges’ cards with four 74s.
High Brow Doll (High Brow Cat x Miss Skeeto Doll x Doc Doll), owned by Philip King, Dumfries, Va., and Barton placed second on all four judges’ cards despite a broken saddle cinch late in the run that cost a few points and nearly sent Barton flying.
Glenda Wilson picked up her first APHA World Championship in the Novice Amateur Cutting during her first ride in Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum.
Wilson, 47, Elizabethtown, Tenn., and Smart N Jazzy (Dual Jazz x Little Lena Boots x Smart Little Lena) won on all five judges’ cards with five 72s.
Smart N Jazzy, a 2003 gelding and his original trainer, Ascencion Banuelos, won a Senior Cutting World Championship at the 2006 APHA World Show. Smart N Jazzy and prior owner Alvin Fults, Amarillo, Texas, were Amateur World Champions at the 2007 APHA World Show.
Sawyer Mowery, 16, Weatherford, Texas, and The Last Playday, an 8-year-old mare her mother, Shelly, and stepfather, Rick Mowery, also compete with, won on all five judges’ cards to claim the APHA Youth Cutting World Championship. Mowery and The Last Playday (The Bug Doctor x Freckles Playday x Freckles Playboy) marked the best scores despite competing late in a set of already worked cattle. She also became the third member of her family to win an APHA World Championship.
Reining classes
NRHA Hall of Fame member Clint Haverty, Krum, Texas, claimed a World Championship and dominated the 4/ 5-Year-Old Reining Challenge during the APHA World Show.
The Sweet Spot was shown by Haverty for owner Mary Jo Greiff, Alpharetta, Ga., to win the Junior Reining finals with a score of 220, placing first under three judges and second under two. The 4-year-old stallion (Mark This Spot x Sugarpop Gun x Colonels Smokingun) also was Reserve Champion in the Reining Challenge with a 216.5. Spinning Dream (Magnum Chic Dream x QTS Prescribed x Q T Poco Streke) was ridden by Devin Warren to take the Reserve Championship in Junior Reining with a 218. The 4-year-old stallion is owned by Megan Mulqueen, Frisco, Colo.
 Shirleys A Gunner and Clint Haverty
The Senior Reining was won by Sunny Spotacular (Mark This Spot x Maggie Dexter x Mr Dex Dexter), a 7-year-old mare owned by Kevin and Ann Kvols, Steamboat Springs, Colo, and shown by Jason Kvols. Kvols also had two extremely successful rides in Youth Reining (14-18), taking the Championship on Sunny Spotacular and the Reserve Championship on Dusta Gun (The Big Gun x MD Dustalena x Marks Doc Bar), also owned by his parents. The Reserve Champion in Senior Reining was MH Icy Blue Millions (I CD Cow x Miss Genuine Jade x Genuine Doc), a 2002 mare shown by Kary McNeill for Norway Investment, Granbury, Texas.
Jana Leigh Simons, Aubrey, Texas, rode her 9-year-old mare, Gunner Hold Your Fire (Colonels Smokingun x Hold That Spot x Sargent Freckles), to a score of 216 to win the Amateur Reining. Nick Wallis, Kaufman, Texas, took Reserve on Smart Smokin Chic (Smokin Chic Olena x Bar S Docs Gay Bar x Lenas Gyrator) with a 214.
In the Solid Paint-Bred Reining, Lil Gator Gun (Colonels Lil Gun x Catalyst King x Taris Catalyst) took the Championship with a 217.5. The 2003 gelding is owned by Double PR Ranch, Royse City, Texas. Franks Presence (Trashadeous x Fraulein Glenda Jac x Crome Plated Jac), ridden by Bruce Liggett for Pamela Schroeck, Poolville, Texas, took Reserve with a 208.
The Freestyle Reining, which took place on the final night of the APHA World Show, was won by Spotted Snowy River (Trinity River Tari x Spotless Gaye Bar x Gay Bar O Lena), a 5-year-old mare owned by Kim Ferguson, Aubrey, Texas, and shown by Jordan Donnelly. The pair marked a 212.5 riding to Smash Mouth’s “All Star.” Donnelly and the mare also were the Youth Reining (13 & Under) Champions. Reserve Champion was Tiffany Neal on Docs Master Remedy (A Master Plan x Doc Dolly Chick x Docs King Chex), a 10-year-old gelding owned by Robert and Janet Neal, Ramona, Calif.
Working Cow Horse classes
 Tom Neel
Cookin Merada (Meradas Money Talks X Cookies Cookin x Doc’s Hickory) and Todd Crawford earned the Reserve title after winning the Junior Working Cow Horse Championship the previous day. The Blanchard, Okla., horseman and Matacorp Ltd.’s 4-year-old stallion netted a combined 445 score to take the Junior Working Cow Horse crown. Six Ninety Five (Smart Little Lena x Little Tenina x Peppy San Badger), piloted by Robbie Boyce, Jacksboro, Texas, netted a 438 to take Reserve. Mark and Amanda Johnson, Whitesboro, Texas, own the 2003 stallion.
In the Senior Working Cow Horse class, Smart Master Plan (Smart Plan x Lady Drift Bar x Doc’s Drift Bar) and Rick Steed won the Championship with a score of 440.5, edging out Anderson Cattle Company’s One Smokin Chic and Lipan, Texas, competitor Bozo Rogers by half a point. Steed, Okeechobee, Fla., and Greg and Jonnie Flewelling’s 8-year-old stallion were Reserve Champions in the class last year.
Joe Cunningham, Stonewall, La., rode his 2001 mare, Smokeys June Bug (Smokey Bar Leo x May Dial Trouble x Dial Jester) to take home the Amateur Working Cow Horse Championship. Ramona, Calif., competitor Robert Holloway and his 1995 gelding, Matalenas Rascal (Matalena x Tam Boggie x Boggie’s Boy) took the Reserve.
This year’s show saw a return of the Youth Working Cow Horse class after a hiatus for a few years. Sarah Jane Grider, Quitman, Texas, and No Con Doc Com (No Controversy x Tar x Hickoryote) marked a 402 to nab the championship in the class for exhibitors 18 years old and under. Hannah Bergfeld and QT Eternal Spark (Q T Poco Streke x Eternal Maggie x Black Deelivery) were a half-point behind them to take the Reserve. Bergfeld, Peosta, Iowa, and her father, Kenneth, bred and trained the 1997 gelding.
Complete coverage will be featured in the Aug. 15 issue of Quarter Horse News.
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