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Bozo Rogers Rides One Smokin Chic to 2008 NRCHA Open Bridle World Championship

2/7/2009

San Angelo, Texas – Bozo Rogers, of Lipan, Texas, earned his first National Reined Cow Horse Association World Championship on February 7. Rogers, of Lipan, Texas, and Anderson Cattle Co.’s One Smokin Chic earned the Open Bridle World title with a score of 440.5. The NRCHA World Championship Show, presented by John Deere, is held as part of the Fort Dodge Animal Health Celebration of Champions. One Smokin Chic, by Freckle Face Smoke and out of Ms Peppy Olena, added $7,785 to her lifetime earnings.
“She’s just been a godsend. You don’t get one like that except maybe once in a lifetime. She doesn’t act like a little horse,” said the 6-foot-4-inch tall Rogers of the petite horse. “The most she has weighed is 960 pounds. I call her the mighty midget.”
 

Rogers Wins In Waco With APHA World Champion

Posted: Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Many of the nation's top 4- and 5-year-old cow horses arrived in Waco, Texas, to compete in the Texas Star Bank Derby. As the cow work came to a close August 20, Fielding Rogers found himself in the winner's circle with two-time American Paint Horse Association Working Cow Horse World Champion One Smokin Chic. Fielding, better known as Bozo, won both the Open and Intermediate Open Derby divisions at The Big Show in Waco.

Bozo, from Lipan, Texas, and One Smokin Chic, a 5-year-old Paint mare by Freckle Face Smoke and out of Ms Peppy Olena, marked a 143 in the herd work and a 144 in the rein work. Coming into Sunday's cow work, One Smokin Chic was leading the Intermediate Open division and placing fourth in the Open. A 151 in the cow work clinched championships in both divisions along with $5,208 for the Open win and $1,470 for the Intermediate win.

"The cattle here were pretty tough and she's the type of mare that can handle a tough cow," Bozo commented. "She's so cowy and she stops so hard. She really took a hold of the cow strong on the end of the arena and dominated him there. He gave her a good run around the corner and then she just took control down the fence."

Steve and Michelle Anderson, from Victoria, Texas, own One Smokin Chic and Michelle showed the mare at the National Cutting Horse Association Non Pro Futurity two years ago. When the couple decided One Smokin Chic wasn't going to be a major cutter, they looked to Bozo to see if she could make it as a cow horse.

"Three months after I started working with her I won the Paint World on her," Bozo noted, referring to their 2005 APHA Working Cow Horse World Championship. They returned this year and reclaimed the title for 2006.

Tequila Slide (Freckle Face Smoke x Smokey Tequila by Docs Gunsmoke) is an 8-year-old sorrel Tovero Paint mare that Tish has seen tremendous success with. The horse carried her to greatness at the 2002 NRCHA Hackamore Classic where the pair topped the Non Pro, $50K Non Pro and Amateur divisions. In 2005, Tequila Slide and Tish won the Non Pro Bridle Spectacular at the NRCHA Derby and finished the season by topping their region’s Non Pro Bridle division. Tequila Slide clinched the National title after finishing fourth in the World in Stephenville.
“She just has a little personality all of her own,” Tish said of her mare. “Her best quality is she has a lot of grit. She’s just really tough going down the fence.”

 * LTE - $35,083 * 2005 NRCHA Supreme Working Cow Horse Award * 2005 NRCHA Derby Horse Show Non-Pro Bridle Champion * 2005 NRCHA Year End High Point Non-Pro Bridle Champion * 2005 NRCHA Southwest Region High Point Non-Pro Bridle Champion * 2003 NRCHA Non-Pro Hackamore Champion * 2002 NRCHA Woodside $50,000 Non-Pro Derby Reserve Champion(1st reining) * The awards go on and on for this mare