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An Intermediate Open Snaffle Bit Futurity® Champion and a World’s Greatest Horseman Champion, both aboard Hickory Holly Time (One Time Pepto x Hickorys Holly Cee x Doc’s Hickory), Kelby Phillips has $1,102,409.82 in NRCHA earnings (as of April 2, 2021). Phillips lives in Weatherford, Texas.
118 MAY/JUNE 2021 | REINED COW HORSE NEWS
Pursuit of SUCCESS. It’s easy to identify it—at least from the outside. But what does it look like
to people who are grinding away, show after show? Do they feel successful? Reined Cow Horse News asked some top-earning National Reined Cow Horse Association riders from 2020 to share their thoughts on success. Does success depend on finding the right horse? The right mentor? The right owners? A little luck? Is it defined by a certain amount in earnings? And how can a rider who doesn’t have success right now find it in the future? Let’s hear what top Open riders Corey Cushing, Kelby Phillips and Justin Wright have to say, along with Non Pro riders Toni Hagen Heath and Hope Mills.
