Posts Tagged ‘western’

Conquering Congress

I was a last minute team addition to an event SmartPak had spent months preparing for. It was our first trip to the All American Quarter Horse Congress and my first time attending a show with SmartPak. While I’ll admit to being just a little bit nervous, I was thrilled that my initiation was going [...]

Smart Starbuck becomes Million Dollar Sire!

Congratulations to Team SmartPak Rider  Tom McCutcheon and McCutcheon Reining Horses
Press Release- NATIONAL REINING HORSE ASSOCIATION
Oklahoma City, OK – October 2, 2009 – With the stars aligned in his favor, Smart Starbuck was destined to become an NRHA Million Dollar Sire. Paired with Million Dollar Rider Tom McCutcheon, he has over $60,000 garnered in the [...]

A Look Back on the AQHA Bayer Select World Show

Here at SmartPak, many marked the end of summer and the sunny Labor Day weekend by attending picnics with friends and family, boating and long walks with our canine friends. Three of us were lucky enough to travel to Amarillo, Texas for the 2009 AQHA Bayer Select World Show August 30th through September 7th as [...]

AQHYA World Championship Show ‘Rocked’ this year!

As part of our new partnership with AQHA, several of us traveled down to Oklahoma City from July 29th thru August 8th for the 2009 AQHYA World Championship Show. Talented youth riders and their horses came from all over the U.S. from states as far away as Alaska to compete for the opportunity to be [...]

SmartPak Supports the Reiners at NAJYRC

Having just returned from the North American Junior and Young Riders Championships, I can say with confidence that this was a horse show that had it all! There were Quarter Horses and Dutch Warmbloods; there were cowboy hats, hunt caps and top hats. There was sun and sand; there was rain and mud. There was [...]

A Snapshot of our Photo Shoot at Top Reiner Tom McCutcheon’s Farm!

by Lissa, Senior Marketing Assistant
Last week Becki (marketing manager), Kristi (photography manager), and I set off at 6:00am from Logan Airport headed to Dallas/Ft Worth, a very familiar trip for us. 4:00am is a little early to leave Plymouth, MA in order to make our 6:00am flight, but we weren’t worried because we could just [...]

Mills Reining Horses Reigns Supreme at Sun Circuit

Press Release- Plus One Productions
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA – At the 2009 Sun Circuit Horse Show in Scottsdale, Ariz., it was a great show for Matt Mills Reining Horses.
Mills won the Junior Reining Circuit Championship on Leans Highlight, a 4-year-old stallion owned by Tracy Bryce and Roberta Fagan.
“It’s a great way to start the year off, and [...]