SPECIAL NOTE:
2008 AQHA WORLD SHOW TENTATIVE DATES!
NOVEMBER 8-22, 2008 (dates tentative)

Read below for a special recap of this past year's world show.

AMATEUR WORKING COW HORSE

ONE COWISMATIC RIDE!

BY CHRISTINE HAMILTON, FIELD EDITOR

Debbie Hubbert and Shes Cowismatic win the 2007 amateur working cow horse world championship on November 9.

Debbie Hubbert and Shes Cowismatic rode into the amateur working cow horse finals on November 9 with the 14^th qualifying score: a 423.

Oddly enough, she was 14^th in the finals go. At that point the score to beat was Karen Stallings of Tucson, Arizona, and NMSU Truckin Chex’s 432.5.

“I was hoping I was going to get a good cow,” Debbie said. “The cow work is always the leading determining factor in the cow horse class. I was hoping for the best cow I could get.

“My cow was a little more difficult than I thought,” she continued. “Going down to my first turn I really thought we got by the cow, and by the time I got the cow turned I think it got the better part of my foot.”

But when the judges made their decisions, Debbie’s score was a 218 for the dry work and a 215 for the cow work to total 433, earning her the world championship.

“The mare is an incredible mare,” Debbie said of Shes Cowismatic. “She’s won about $65,000 so far, and every time I go in the arena she packs me around, each and every time, she never cheats. I am so happy with her.”

Shes Cowismatic was bred by Curt Blakeway of Everson, Washington. Most of her earnings have been through National Reining Horse Association competition ($14,809) and National Reined Cow Horse Association competition ($40,746).

Garth Brown got the mare ready for Debbie. She said he’s her “trainer and her better half. He did an excellent job. He’s helped me with her all year.”

The mare has proven her mettle outside the cow horse arena.

“Last summer I turned her out with a couple of other mares thinking that they were all going to play in the pasture together,” Debbie said. “I know better than to turn her out.

“She’s very inquisitive, and she decided to go and explore one of the other mares who took high offense to this and kicked her right in the middle of the head,” she continued. “I was lucky enough to be there as soon as it happened. We rushed her to the vet and he had to perform two different surgeries on her to repair all the broken bones in her face.

“So my mare has actually had a nose job and a face job! She’s had a little plastic surgery.”

Luckily the mare was only laid up for about a month and Debbie was able to show her again at last year’s NRHA Futurity in December.

But Shes Cowismatic is headed for some serious down time very soon.

“She’s pregnant right now and going to have a baby,” Debbie said. The sire is a horse that Garth used to show and recently bought back, Chicory Dox.

“I’m not going to say she’s for sure retired to the broodmare band, but right now she’s going to have the life of leisure until she foals out the end of May (2008),” Debbie added. “Then I may end up legging her up and showing her again. But she’s won so many things; she doesn’t owe me anything anymore.”