Ole Colonel Jackie - 14.3H, 1998', sorrel AQHA gelding
Super broke all-around family/pleasure/trail riding gelding.
Awesome team penning and sorting horse, this guy has been hauled
all-around the country has a ton of points and has won
money everywhere.
Won the 2010 AQHYA World Championship in ranch sorting and placed 3rd
in team penning at the 2010 AQHYA world show, also placed at the 2009
AQHYA World in ranch sorting, and placed 3rd in ranch sorting at this
past 2011 AQHA World Championship Show.
Corey Free, Port Allen, La., and Jennifer Vesbach, Platteville, Wis.,
won the 2010 American Quarter Horse Youth Association Ranch Sorting
World Championship.
Free was aboard 12-year-old gelding Ole Colonel Jackie (Chicks The Man x
Freckles And Diamonds x Colonel Taylor), owned by his mother Renee,
while Vesback rode her 8-year-old mare Princess Doc April (Cutters Leo
Lena x Princess Doc Josie x Jae Bar Prince).
The pair has a strong first round, winning the prelims by sorting seven
cows in 59.509 seconds. They were both calm and confident coming into
the finals. Free and Vesbach sorted from draw 14 out of 15, so they knew
what they needed to make to stay on top. After cleanly sorting two cows
in just over 33 seconds, the couple let the clock run out on the rest of
their run. Their winning two-round total was nine cows in 92.526
seconds.
Although Free and Vesbach work like a well-oiled machine, the pair
manages a long-distance riding relationship, making their win even more
impressive.
“We only get to ride together like twice a year,” Free said. “We don’t
get to practice together much at all.”
The last duo to ride in the finals after Free and Vesbach were Margaret
Claire Chase, Battle Lake, Minn., and Jessica Stelter, Detroit Lakes,
Minn. The girls tried their hardest to catch up with the first-place
pair, winning the Reserve Championship with eight cows sorted in 102.023
seconds.