Blue's Siblings
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.”
