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The equine industry draws a person in for the long haul. Four-legged friends become a lifestyle, not just a hobby. We meet friends that last forever, own horses that become members of our family and make cherished memories while chasing our dreams. Kathy Tobin is an incredible example of a true equestrian. Most know Tobin as the owner of the million-dollar sire Allocate Your Assets, but she began showing horses long before Al reached his fame.
a lifelong exhibitor Tobin has been showing at Quarter Horse shows since for almost 63 years, starting when she was
just eight years old. “I just love showing and being with my wonderful family, friends and horses,” said Kathy. “They bring me such joy and to have them all together at the same time is incredible beyond words. Horse shows are my life outside of my family.” Although she is now retired, for many years, Tobin, like many amateurs, juggled showing with a satisfying career in banking. “I went to graduate school studying international management and received an MBA,” Tobin said. “Then after getting married to my wonderful husband, Jerry, we moved to Los Angeles where
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Pattern classes have changed significantly over the years, but they remain a favorite for Tobin. Memorizing and navigating a new course at every show can be mentally stimulating for exhibitors and Kathy is no exception. These classes have become more challenging with the skill required to be competitive continually increasing. “My favorite events are Trail and Western Riding,” Kathy said. “I’ve seen so many changes in both classes. The quality of horses and competition along with the complicated patterns in those classes are always challenging yet fun. I think having to remember trail patterns helps my older mind stay focused.”
allocate your assets I became a Vice President at Bank of America in their trust department. We moved back to Arizona to start a family and had two wonderful sons. I was fortunate enough to become a stayat-home mom. It was a career I enjoyed and cherish immensely.” Kathy has owned and shown some very successful horses throughout her career in addition to two renowned stallions—Allocate Your Assets and VS Code Blue. She credits her longtime trainers Jim and Deanna Searles with playing an integral role every step of the way. “I have been blessed and fortunate to have had some amazing show horses over the years including Zippos Due Claw, Im An Ivy Leaguer, Honest Detail, Flashy Attraction, Blameitonthe Alcohol, Lastcallfouralcohol, More Radical, New Lark In Town and VS Game Changer,” Kathy said. “I have been able to continue with Suddenly A Good Bar, Hereicomagain and Just Loping. Jim and Deanna Searles should get the credit and are responsible for helping me find some truly great horses.” 16 | PREMIER | APRIL 2021
Owning a stallion was never on Kathy’s radar. When her trainers and sister, Susie Johns, saw Allocate Your Assets for the first time, they immediately knew he was so special that they convinced Kathy to buy him sight unseen. “Al” has certainly proven himself worthy of this decision during his lifetime. “We bought Al, as a two-year-old from Brian Isbell Garcia in 2002, so we have owned him for 19 of his 21 years,” Kathy said. “Becoming a stallion owner was never planned, it just happened by being in the right place at the right time. Deanna and Jim Searles and my sister, Susie Johns, saw Brian riding Al around at the Red Bud circuit. Al was only two and hadn’t been shown, but Deanna loved him at first sight. Luckily Susie didn’t show English at the time, so they called me. Their word was more than good enough for me and we bought the horse without seeing him.” Brian showed the young stallion later that summer and that fall Allocate Your Assets won his first Congress Championship in the 2 -Year-
Old Open Hunter Under Saddle Futurity. In 2006 he won another Congress Championship and an AQHA Reserve World Championship in Senior Hunter Under Saddle. Kathy believes a large part of Al’s success as a show horse is due to his extraordinary mind. “I love his floating trot and great front leg at the canter, but his mind is what I love the most about him,” Kathy said. “He was always so quiet and never stud like. I showed him myself at the end of his three-year-old year in some Hunter Under Saddle futurities and he continued his winning ways. I showed him at the AQHA Select World Championship Show as a four-year-old and ended up third even though I picked up the wrong lead for a split second. I love that he passes his beautiful trot and canter along with a great mind to his foals.” Sired by Protect Your Assets and out of the Thoroughbred mare Katt Sass, Allocate Your Assets has proven himself as a leading sire of Hunter Under Saddle horses. According to Qdata (formerly Robin Glenn Pedigrees) to date Al has sired offspring with earnings in excess of $1.4 million. His accomplishments have created a high demand for his foals. “We have been selling Al’s foals quickly, so we
actually don’t have any young horses by him to show ourselves this year,” Kathy said. “Jim and Deanna still have their sentimental favorite, Best Jazz Album Yet, who they will be showing in the Senior Hunter Under Saddle. We are looking forward to watching all of the foals born this year grow up.” At 21, Kathy says that Al is still going strong and shows no signs of slowing down. “We waited until he was six to start his breeding career, and I think that has helped him stay so strong and healthy even as he gets older,” said Kathy. “I am always hopeful that an ‘Al Junior’ will come along but that particular horse would have huge shoes to fill. It would have to be a very special horse.”
vs code blue Kathy never planned on owning a stallion, much less two, but last winter she jumped at the opportunity to purchase VS Code Blue from Jan Pittman. “We purchased VS Code Blue in January 2020,” Kathy said. “We admired him from the time he was a two-year-old under the guidance of Karen
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Graham and tried to buy him, but he wasn’t for sale. Even as a two-year-old “Peyton” was steady and easy going and he was an incredible mover. He had exceptional conformation and was pretty to look at.” VS Code Blue is by NSBA All Time Leading Money Producing stallion RL Best of Sudden and out of the legendary mare Vital Signs Are Good, Peyton was the AQHA High Point Western Pleasure and Trail Stallion in 2011 and is an NSBA Reserve World Champion. Although VS Code Blue had a successful show career, he has achieved even greater success as a sire. His foals have won AQHA, APHA and NSBA World Championships. In 2019 VS Code Blue was named the Tom Powers Triple Challenge Futurity Stallion of the Year. Kathy is looking forward to showing his offspring. “I have a three-year-old Peyton baby, All Eyezs On Him, that is showing in Western Pleasure futurities with Jim Searles and Rusty Green. We also have a VS Code Blue yearling out of my show mare, Hereicomagain, that we have high hopes for as well.”
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reaching the top Breeding and showing horses requires perseverance. A lifetime in the horse industry has seen Kathy experiencing both highs and lows, but her passion for the horses has never wavered. Kathy believes that in order to be successful in this industry you need to be patient and never give up on yourself. “My advice to people just starting out in the horse industry is to just keep trying, don’t give or get too discouraged,” Kathy said. “I think newcomers think that most of us just started showing and winning right away, but they need to know that even the best riders have bad rides. You can’t be too hard on yourself. Focus on competing against yourself to be the best that you can be. Be happy with small personal triumphs and practice, practice, practice. If you are patient the wins will come. It took me 45 years to win my first AQHA World Championship, so hang in there. Like they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day.” Article Written By: Courtney Parmenter
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legends In an industry full of cutthroat competitiveness,
Stanley Ryan made his mark with kindness—and a smile.
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inning in the horse world often requires a fierce determination that can leave little room for pleasantries. But some riders can rise to the top, while also making sure no one feels left behind. Stanley Ryan had championships, trophies and futurity titles in both Quarter Horse and Appaloosa competition. But he also had a reputation for being kind, warm and incredibly wellliked. Stanley’s agreeable nature endeared him to everyone.
^ Stanley and his grandson, Brim.
Alabama Boy Stanley Ryan grew up with his sisters Jackie, LuAnn and Jami in Ryan, Alabama, a town named after one of his ancestors. His grandparents were farmers and his father, Nolan, worked in Birmingham, Alabama, in the steel industry. Stanley loved horses from the time he was small and always managed to have a horse or a pony. He was a self-taught horseman who began training horses for people by the time he was in high school.
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At 17, he went to live and work as a trainer for the Scranton family. Bob Scranton helped Stanley establish himself as a trainer and helped him buy his first truck and trailer. Stanley won his first All-American Quarter Horse Congress Championship with Scranton’s horse Present Me. Courtney Raughley grew up in Birmingham and met Stanley when she was in high school through Bob’s daughter Caroline. “Stanley and I became very good friends,” Raughley said. “We shared a love of horses and dogs—he had a blue merle Australian shepherd named Damote.” Every afternoon, like clockwork, Stanley stopped by Raughley’s house on his way to or from the barn. The two friends would talk about their trucks and trailers. Raughley says Stanley was extremely conscientious about his vehicles and equipment—a sentiment most folks who knew him echoed. “He loved his truck,” Raughley said. “We’d see whose truck had more wax on it by putting a soda bottle on the hood and see whose bottle would slide off first. Both of us were so meticulous about our truck and trailer, but he was that way about any of his equipment. He was a fanatic. Everything was spotless and he took excellent care of it.”
A Two-Trainer Household After Stanley went to work for trainer Bill Coffman, who was riding horses for Richard Kelly in Clayton, Alabama, he met another up-and-coming trainer named Nancy Sue McGregor, who was riding for Jack Finney. Nancy Sue and Stanley soon became a couple and eventually married in the late 70s. The couple went to work for a ranch together, and then started on their own training operation in Nocona, Texas, in 1983. Raughley says Stanley’s partnership with Nancy Sue elevated his reach as a trainer and contributed to his success. Nancy Sue focused on English horses while Stanley’s passion was showing Western Pleasure horses. Raughley says Stanley was known for his ready smile and kind demeanor, although he was reserved. “He had this smile that could just brighten any day, but he didn’t share a lot of his feelings unless he was close to you,” Raughley said. “He was really nice to everyone—very kind and caring. He always tried to find the best in everyone, and he loved laughter.”
(Top) Stanley and Courtney Raughley (Middle) Stanley, Jack Finney, Ruth Ballard, Nancy Sue Ryan (Bottom) Stanley after winning the Reichert
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Nancy Sue says Stanley’s greatest strength with people was his agreeable nature.
Stanley with his daughter Courtney
“His nickname was ‘smile-and-nod,’” Nancy Sue said. “He was a very agreeable person—he never stirred the pot. He was just very easygoing.” The Ryan’s named their first-born daughter Courtney, after Raughley, who continued to be Stanley’s lifelong friend. Courtney would later spend summers with Raughley and her family when the Ryans were busy showing horses. “His daughter ended up becoming like one of my children,” Raughley said. “We were just best buds—he became a very good friend, and I will always treasure that time with Stanley.”
A Certain Title Stanley and Nancy Sue separated in the late 80s and Stanley began training and showing Appaloosas with his second wife, Connie. “He had his biggest wins with the Appaloosas,” Nancy Sue said. Stanley and Nancy Sue’s daughter Courtney—now Brockmueller— said he was best known for his talent with training and showing Appaloosa futurity horses. Stanley’s most notable accomplishment in the show pen was with A Certain Vino, a horse he trained for Tim and Lou Petty of Ocala, Florida. He trained for the couple from 2002 to 2008 and guided their horses to multiple Congress Championships—both in Open, and coaching Lou in Amateur. “It was such a good fit because he was a good pleasure horse trainer, and that’s the kind of stud we had,” Lou Petty said. “He was a really good judge of horses and represented our horses really well. We were always impressed with the way he was so meticulous with everything. His equipment and clothing were always pristine, and his horses were always at the top of their game, ready to show.” At the Reichert Celebration in 2005, Stanley won the biggest class 38 | PREMIER | APRIL 2021
of his career-- the Equine Sports Medicine $100,000 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure class—with the Petty’s homebred gelding A Certain Vino. “His legacy was winning the first Reichert $100,000 class,” Nancy Sue said. “But he had multiple World Championships. He was very influential in the Appaloosa association. He had a great career.” Petty said anyone who met Stanley received his signature smile, and that his positive energy was contagious. “He was friendly to everyone and never spoke badly of anyone,” Lou said. “When you’re around people like that, you want to be that way too. He brought out the best of us. And his laugh was contagious.” In Courtney’s eyes, her dad’s lasting legacy is the way he treated people. “My strongest takeaway was just how he made people
feel—he was very kind, he had a very warm smile, and was always there for anybody and everybody,” Courtney said. “I knew he won a lot—as a kid you see the pictures and trophies all about, but I always appreciated and acknowledged how good he made everybody around him feel.”
A Different Kind Of Chrome Other than horses, and his beloved bulldogs, Stanley was devoted to motorcycles. After training horses for multiple clients over the years, he eventually became a sales rep for Derek Kelly’s Harley-Davidson in Ocala.
“He was very talented and really understood the horse,” Benker said. “He could get a horse to do more without fighting them than most people can. He communicated very well with horses and knew how to handle them without causing a ruckus. He was just a superior horseman.”
Full Circle Stanley and Nancy Sue had two daughters—
Veterinarian Fred Benker became lifelong friends with Stanley when the horse trainer was riding for the Pettys, and Benker worked on their horses. They soon began riding motorcycles together. Just like his horses and his trucks, Stanley enjoyed a well-cared for vehicle. “He was meticulous and would shine everybody’s bikes for them,” Benker recalled. “We rode together once or twice a week. He was always there to help you.” Benker says Stanley had a gentle touch with horses—a quality he appreciated.
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Courtney and Chelsea. Naturally, both showed horses growing up. Courtney has gone on to become a leading National Snaffle Bit Association Non-Pro rider, having earned more than $100,000 in lifetime earnings. She now runs MB Construction LLC with her husband, building show horse barns and facilities. Chelsea lives and works with her mom and grandmother on the family farm in Nocona. Stanley had taken a sabbatical from the horse world for ten years when he met Leslie Bacon in 2015. He had been encouraged by another trainer to go to Leslie’s farm, Running Stag Farm, and look at some of her horses. The two hit it off and began building a breeding program centered around the mares that Leslie owned. They got engaged in 2018.
Stanley and Leslie Bacon
loved creating adventures out of everything we did. He was incredibly loyal to those he loved.”
Leslie did not have a clear understanding of Stanley’s prominence in the horse industry until taking a trip to Congress where she realized Stanley’s incredible rapport with the horse community.
Stanley was diagnosed with cancer in 2019 and passed away in June the same year. Speaking to just a few of the people who were close to Stanley, it’s clear how much he meant to each of them, and how much he cared for them in return.
“We walked into the arena to watch a class and within literally five minutes, 200 people moved from their seats and surrounded us in order to chat with Stanley,” Leslie said. “I was blown away. The first time I saw Good Better Best was in that class we were watching. Stanley’s daughter Courtney was riding him. I immediately fell in love with him.”
Before he passed, Stanley had made peace with the people he loved in his life. He had a strong relationship with his 7-year-old grandson Brim, Courtney’s son. While Brim knows how to ride horses, he has also followed his grandfather’s love for motorcycles and avidly competes in motocross.
Stanley brought Leslie back to meet Good Better Best, Courtney, and Nancy Sue. In 2017, Leslie partnered with Nancy Sue on the stallion. The two women are now standing him at stud together.
“I think his story really came around full circle,” Courtney said. “He was integral in bringing Leslie Bacon in as a partner with my mom on Good Better Best. So it was a beginning and an end—it came back full circle, with everyone working well together.”
Leslie says Stanley was multi-faceted, beyond his talent with horses. “He was not just a horse trainer,” Leslie said. “His interests were vast, and he was one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. We
Courtney says Stanley was always true to his Alabama upbringing, and loved his family. “When you were in his life and he was in your life, he really cared,” Courtney said. “He loved his family from Alabama, and I know he loved us. Deep down, he was an Alabama boy. He never lost sight of his roots and where he came from.” Article Written By: Abigail Boatwright
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mare power
Ill Be Dun Won It “Ill Be Dun Won It is best known for her propensity for passing on only her best traits.”
Ill Be Dun Won It was a beautiful mare and a gorgeous mover, with a respectable show career at the local level. But she’ll never be known for her own show-ring accolades. The 1995 bay mare nicknamed “Be” is known for her many highly successful offspring. According to Q Data, out of a total of thirty-five foals, twenty-five (71%) have amassed $470,371 in earnings and that’s not even counting the potential earnings of her second generation. Ill Be Dun Won It’s legacy is impressive. Her longtime owner Vickie Kent attributes this incredible success to great genes. the mare mood Kent of Graceville, Florida, owned Be’s mother, Dun Won It (by Win Or Lose) and raised the foal sired by Zips Poco Pine from birth. She was the sole owner of Be, trained the mare herself, and says she was absolutely lovely. 56 | PREMIER | APRIL 2021
“My first impression of her was that she was really, really pretty,” Kent said. “When she was first broke, she was really good in her hocks. She had a really good jog. But she was very much a mare. So even though she moved really good, she was never fun to show. She was a bit mean to other horses and wanted her own space in the pen.” Looking back, Kent wishes she’d put the mare on the hormone supplement regumate believing it would have made the mare much easier to work with. But that mare moodiness was a blessing in disguise—Kent started breeding Be at 3 years old, rather than continuing her show career. “I also had her full brother, a stud named Zips Dun Won It, and he was a really good horse,” Kent said. “He won some NSBA and open futurities. He loped good, jogged good, was
very natural. Unfortunately he got sick at one of the futurities and ended up foundering because of it. So I wanted to keep Be—his full sister—to carry on the line.” great genes Starting her breeding career early helped Be gain recognition as a broodmare to be reckoned with. “She definitely out produced herself—her babies were always better than her,” Kent said. “She had outstanding babies. She was a good mama, had great genes, and she produced really pretty babies. Some of them were tough, but most of them have been really sound horses, and they are very trainable.” Won It On An Impulse was Be’s first foal, born in 2000, but it was Wonit Ona RV Version, her second foal who was born in 2001, that started showing Be’s prowess as a broodmare, racking up $59,022 in earnings. “He was really good in Western Pleasure,” Kent said of Wonit Ona RV Version. “He won the AQHA Amateur All Around High Point as well as the AQHA High Points in Amateur Trail and Open Senior Trail in 2008 and won the Showmanship at the Select World in 2009. He was also third at the Congress in the Western Pleasure. He was just a really great horse.” When selecting stallions for Be, Kent focused on proven stallions with successful offspring who she felt would best complement the mare. “I tried to look for stallions that would improve on her faults,” Kent said. “I liked stallions with shorter backs and good, quiet temperaments.”
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addition to winning more than 1,500 AQHA points, Won Lopin RV Machine is an AQHA Amateur and Youth Champion, AQHA Performance Champion, AQHA High Point Champion and has won countless Superiors and Registers of Merit. “Won Lopin RV Machine is the horse I show, and my favorite,” Kent said. “He has a very good temperament, gets along with other horses, and gets along with me. He’s a very sweet horse, and very talented.” Kent’s daughter Christie Arrington and her husband Ricky have worked with many “RV” horses both for the Kents and for their customers. Currently Christie has RV Won Good Version in her barn, a 16-year-old gelding that Kent and Christie’s son Justin Clay Arrington showed for years, who is now owned by Madeleine Bayless. Kent showed him to a third place at the AQHA Select World Show in Trail, and “Clay” won a 13 & Under Youth World Championship with him in Trail, as well as a Congress youth Trail title. Robin Frid showed the gelding to a Top 5 placing at the AQHA World Show in Junior Trail. “I am looking forward to showing him with Madeleine this year,” Christie said. “He is the same color [as Be] and has her big pretty eye and long, thick tail.”
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Christie says Be has passed on her best traits to her offspring, producing good-minded, trainable, sound, nice moving horses. “She was a really nice mare, but she has produced offspring better than herself, which to me, makes her a successful dam,” Christie said. RV Won Good Version is another example of Be’s excellent bloodlines. The 2005 gelding has won $38,229 and 1,987 AQHA points, AQHA Champion, AQHA Amateur Champion, AQHA Youth Champion, AQHA All-Around and numerous Superiors and Registers of Merit. “RV Won Good Version has the biggest heart and is the sweetest horse I have ever known,” Christie said.
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Christie bred Wonit On My RV, and Clay broke and trained the 2015 gelding. At the NSBA World, the two won the 2-year-old Non-Pro and Limited Open Western Pleasure classes, as well as the BCF Championship. They also won the 2-year-old Western Pleasure at Congress, the Tom Powers Futurity, and Show for Dough. Christie’s
customer Charlie Brooks is now showing the gelding in 13 & Under all-around events.
shown her in Select Western Pleasure classes ever since. Gil Galyean has shown her in Western riding as well.
Won Vital Code RV, sired by VS Code Red, also has a special place in Christie’s heart.
“She’s very predictable and pretty mild-mannered— she doesn’t have a lot of change in how she rides,” Richard said. “Because of our lifestyle, right now I don’t have a lot of time to practice on her, but I could pretty much just jump on her and show, and she would do just fine. She can trot really slow, and she lopes pretty good for her age. She’s very competitive. And she’s really fun to ride.”
“Clay broke and trained him, showed him at the Congress, placing in the Top 10 in the Coughlin 2-Year-Old Limited Open Western Pleasure,” Christie said “Then I started him in Trail, and went on to be Reserve Champion at the NSBA World Show in the 3-Year-Old Trail. Clay won the 3-YearOld Non-Pro Trail with him. I was also fourth at the Congress with him in the 3-Year-Old Trail.” After being purchased by Eric Mendrysa, Won Vital Code RV went on to win the Level 2 Trail at the AQHA World Show with John Briggs, and Mendrysa was Reserve World Champion with him in the Amateur Showmanship.
Like her dam, “Boo” doesn’t like to be close to other horses in the pen, but it’s a predictable quirk, says Richard. “She’s taught me a lot,” Richard said. “She has made me a better rider. I’ve learned more from her than any other horse I’ve ridden before. I’m having a good time, and I have fun showing her. I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to ride her.” legacy
RV Won Good Version
Ella Petak now owns the gelding and has won the Youth Level 2 Hunter Under Saddle at the AQHYA World Show with him, as well as a Reserve title in Youth Western Riding and third place in Youth Showmanship at the NSBA World Show. Won RV Ridin Machine is a 2010 mare owned by Angela Dillahunty, in training with Robin and Jenny Frid. Angela won an AQHA Select World Championship in Showmanship with the mare. I Will Be A Good RV is a 2013 mare sired by Good I Will Be. Clay rode the mare to win several futurities. Richard and Betty Carr bought her at the NSBA World Show her 3-year-old year, and Richard has
Kent is thankful.
Unfortunately, Be’s life was cut short due to an incident while hauling. Her many offspring carry on her best qualities, and for that,
Many of Be’s foals were printed with her traits of soundness, good hocks and good looks. And although she was only about 15 hands tall, many of her offspring are taller. “Most of them are really pretty—they’re really big, and they have pretty heads,” Kent said. Unlike Be herself, Kent says her offspring are usually easygoing and good youth horses. “They’re often ones that everybody can ride,” Kent said. “You’ll see a lot of Youth on RV horses that are out of Be.” Article Written By: By Abigail Boatwright 59 | PREMIER | APRIL 2021
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