After one very memorable 226-point run Memorable Affair topped the $7,500-added Lil Ruf Peppy Open October 28 in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
The Southwest Reining Horse Association Futurity Show has a tradition of having great Open reining competition and the 2005 edition of the event was one more chapter in a reining history. After one very memorable 226-point run, Jordan Larson, Whitesboro, Texas, topped the $7,500-added Lil Ruf Peppy Open October 28 in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Jordan’s win came with Victoria Lambert’s great 4-year-old mare, Memorable Affair.
The Open competition highlighted some of the best horses in the reining industry and the list of entries read like a reining “Who’s Who”. Justin Mathison on Starlights Slim owned by Larry and Leslie Woods of Guthrie, Oklahoma and Craig Schmersal on Commanders Nic, a horse he owns with his wife, Ginger, each marked a 225.5 to share the lead before Jordan took the stage in the 13-entry class. With fast, precise circles and huge, powerful stops, Memorable Affair picked up the championship and a check for $3,038.“She’s perfect; she has more try than all of the other horses in the barn,” Jordan said of the mare by Major Vaquero and out of Coronas Affair.
“She takes her job really seriously. I’ve ridden lots of horses and not all of them go in there and have the desire that she has.”
