BY CHRISTINE HAMILTON, FIELD EDITOR
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| Kent Youngblood and Docs Dual Peppy are the 2007 Select world champions in breakaway roping. AQHA President Frank Merrill presented the awards. |
Kent Youngblood had two horses qualified for the breakaway finals on August 30, a 2000 sorrel gelding named Docs Dual Peppy, and a 2003 bay stallion named YB The Sheriff.
Not bad for a first-timer to the Bayer Select World Championship Show. And not bad for a man who thinks his horses are a bit green.
“I just started these two horses last spring,” Kent said. He worked on them in working cow horse, and then started roping, “just enough to get them qualified in the breakaway.”
“These horses are still green,” he added. “They’re green in the box; they don’t go off your hand real good.”
But he rode out of the arena with two trophies – one gold and one bronze. Docs Dual Peppy earned the world championship with a time of 3.080 and YB The Sheriff third with a 4.122.
“I didn’t have to do anything but get a start and take the first available throw,” Kent said. “I’ve roped long enough, and I rodeoed for years – just going in and getting one roped, I felt real good about.”
Docs Dual Peppy came from the Houston Ranch, a colt that didn’t make it as a reiner. Kent kept him a stallion for a while, but had trouble getting the horse’s attention so he gelded him. Kent bought YB The Sheriff at the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity Sale in Fort Worth.
“I show in the Ranch Horse Association of America, and a few versatility classes,” Kent added. “I team roped until a few years ago, I just now started back.”
Kent and his wife, Teresa, farm and ranch from their home in Lamesa, Texas. Theresa wasn’t on hand for the finals because she’s at home with their 21-month-old twins, Colt and Madison.
“It’s still hard to haul those two,” Kent said with a laugh. “They don’t haul so good.”
But Kent’s Bayer Select World experience isn’t over yet. Kent and his new Select breakaway world champion also qualified for the working cow horse finals on September 3, and Teresa and the twins might come to watch.
And he’s already aiming to qualify for next year, this time in the team roping.
Horse name: Docs dual Peppy
Pedigree: 2000 sorrel gelding by Docs Dual Pep and out of Peppy Lita San by Peppy San
Exhibitor: Kent Youngblood, Lamesa, Texas
Owner: Kent Youngblood
Total class entries: 13
Purse: $2,600
World Champion Prizes: Custom-designed gold-tone trophy, Montana Silversmiths buckle with 14K gold overlay, Tex Tan product, Cripple Creek Outerwear logoed jacket, neck wreath. |
