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Kristin Glover and Vital Signs Are Good claim their
Sooner Trailer All-Around Amateur award. |
A disappointing youth career and a talented mare spurred Kristen Glover to earn the Sooner Trailer All-Around Amateur title.
“I started showing when I was 5 years old, and my first year to go to the Youth World was when I was 12. My ultimate goal was just to win a world championship, and I didn’t get that done my whole youth career,” Kristen said.
But in Kristen’s first year as an amateur, she bought Vital Signs Are Good, then a 3-year-old western pleasure mare who carried Kristen to her first world championship.
That ambition achieved, Kristen wanted to win the Sooner Trailer award. On November 9, she met her newest goal.
“You’re going to get knocked down a lot, but just get up and keep going,” Kristen said, getting teary as she talked about what she has learned from showing horses. “I got knocked down constantly going for the Youth World, and you just keep trying. God has blessed me with her. She’s just done a lot for me.”
The Sooner Trailer All-Around Amateur award goes to the amateur horse and exhibitor who earn the most points during the World Show. Exhibitors had to show one horse in a minimum of three events to be eligible. Points were awarded for placing in the top 10 in the classes.
Kristen said she tried to concentrate on each class as it came up and not think about her ultimate goal. Kristen rode “Lucy” to championship finishes in western pleasure and western riding, along with third-place finishes in performance halter mares and horsemanship and a fifth-place finish in showmanship.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do (next),” Kristen said. “I’ve really accomplished all I wanted to accomplish. It’s just incredible. I probably couldn’t do it on any other horse. She’s just really cool.”
1. Kristen Glover
2. Nicole Barnes
3. Adelaide Moncrief
4. Karen Evans Mundy
5. Joetta Bell |
Lucy has earned more than $67,000 in National Snaffle Bit Association competition.
In addition to the wins at the 2007 Bank of America Amateur Week, Lucy has two world championships in western riding and two in western pleasure as well as a reserve world championship in western riding and multiple high-point titles.
Kristen, who works in her family’s car dealership, has applied for medical school. She plans to continue showing and enjoying her horses in her spare time, including showing one of Lucy’s babies in the 2-year-old western pleasure during open week.
“I’m going to enjoy having her and appreciate her, because she is one of a kind. There will never be another one like her.”
