Ranch Remuda Challenge

Ranch hands pull out all the stops to earn their spot in the Ranch Remuda Challenge finals.

By Tara Christiansen
The American Quarter Horse Journal
July 5, 2012

Robert Forst and Seven S Holy Roller

Robert Forst and Seven S Holy Roller, owned by Terry Stuart Forst, put up a score of 431.5 to win the Ranch Remuda Challenge prelims. (Tara Christiansen photo) To view more photos, scroll down to the slide show below.

For the third year, the Ranch Remuda Challenge provided the perfect platform for cowboys and their American Quarter Horses to prove that they're just as handy in the show pen as they are out on the ranch.

This challenge isn't open to just any ol' passerby: The horses in it must belong to a ranch that meets the criteria of the AQHA-Pfizer Best Remuda Award, and the cowboys piloting them in competition must also work for that ranch. However, the ranch doesn't have to have won the Best Remuda Award.

Taking the lead in the prelims was Robert Forst riding Seven S Holy Roller for his mother, Terry Stuart Forst, with an impressive score of 431.5. Bred and raised by Terry, "Rounder," as the 6-year-old sorrel gelding is called around the barn, is by the Forsts' former stallion, Real Gun, and out of Seven S Babe by Seven S Zanaday.

Ten horse-and-rider teams will compete in Friday's finals; those teams are:

  • Seven S Holy Roller and Robert Forst for Terry Stuart Forst (prelims score of 431.5)
  • Gallo Poco Cross and Lavert Avent for Robert Norris (426)
  • T Tari Freckles and Lavert Avent for Robert Norris (425.5)
  • Foremans Pick and Chance O'Neal for Burnett Ranches LLC (424.5)
  • MCC Double Heaven and Tim Washington for Matador Cattle Co. (420.5)
  • Chic Boots and Ben Baldus for WT Waggoner Estate (420.5)
  • Last Crash and Cotton Leathers for Burnett Ranches LLC (420)
  • Genuine Chic Pleaser and Matt Kelly for Wagonhound Land/Livestock LLC (418.5)
  • Seven S Party Girl and Robert Forst for Terry Stuart Forst (417.5)
  • Medicinal Mecom Blue and Ron Redford for Tongue River Ranch (417)

Learn more about the Ranch Remuda Challenge and the AQHA-Pfizer Best Remuda Award.

Don't forget to scroll through the slide show below, brought to you by The American Quarter Horse Journal.