Silver Buckle Performance Horses

For the second year in a row, Jolese George and Dundee Cee finished out the year as the Western Saddle Club of Phoenix Reserve High Point Champions! They took home a beautiful headstall made by Hereford brand and really enjoyed the awards banquet, complete with great cookies and refreshments! This is such a great organization that is really well run and Silver Buckle Show Horses is happy to be a part of the team. For more information on the WSC events, please visit www.WesternSaddleClubofPhoenix.com

To start off with, I'd like to recap from the 2008 series We were very pleased to find out that Dundee Cee and I were reserve high point champion for the year! We recieved a gift certificate to The Stock Shop and some extra odds n ends. I just couldn't have been more excited for myself and my little speed demon. "Larry" has come so far in such a short time. I'd also like to give special thanks to Rick Knowlton, who is a FANTASTIC farrier. Without him, we wouldn't be able to pursue our dreams. Also thank you to everyone who supports us: Mom & Dad, Deanna, Kim, Karen, Pete... You guys are the best and I love you!

Now, for how we did at the January meet! We were reserve high point champion for the day! We recieved the following times and places:

Barrel Racing: 20.4 (3rd Place)

Pole Bending: 25.26 (2nd Place)

Key Hole: 7.21 (2nd Place)

Precision Barrels: 16.46 (2nd Place)

What is really great is that in EVERY event, we knocked 1-5 seconds off of our time! Larry did an amazing job and we've been working on slowing him down so his turns were beautiful! Here's some pictures from the day:

We said goodbye to our dear friend "Lady" today and she will be greatly missed. She was the kind of mare that made you look forward to riding every day and just being out at the barn. She was the ruler of all our horses, everyone recieved one of her trademark attitude adjustments at some point in time and all of our babies have been better for it. She was the keeper of justice and a great mare all around. She produced some beautiful and intelligent foals who are going to keep a part of her in this world forever. We know at some point in time in her life, she went to the NFR and got to show her talent in the roping arena. She loved cows and this big ole mare could cut a calf with the best of em. We competed in barrel racing events and all kinds of cow stuff. This mare sure has left an empty spot for all of us and we will never forget the time we spent with her. She put up a long hard fight with a terrible bone infection, but we knew when it was time to say when.

1996 - 2008

What a whopper this summer has been! It has brought some miserable weather, some misfortune, and some very much needed change to the program here. The cooler days seem to finally be here and we are enjoying our mornings and nights again! All the horses are certainly enjoying this change of season, more than us, I'm sure.

The summer had started out great, I was on top of the Western Saddle Club series with Dundee Cee (Larry) until his navicular syndrome made it hard for him to do what he loved. Unfortunately, that meant I couldn't catch up to the requirements for the series and am now DQ'd until January, when the series starts again. So I got a new horse with hopes of him being a good mount for this part of my life, he certainly was, but the heat and some health issues had us at a stand still. He is now back in training and we will be at the WSC event on the 25th of this month, dressed up in costume!

We were very lucky to make another big purchase of two yearling halter horses this summer, bred and raised at Pritz Show Horses in Tuscon. We have been showing these two (which you should check out on the show team page.) and doing very well. With them, we attended the Blue Ribbon Horse Shows and the APHA shows for the first time. I'm not saying that we will completely change our program to paint horses, but color will definetly be a part of our program from now on.

It has been a very busy summer, and I'm sure the winter show season will not allow us a break, but we are in a good place now, and we are very happy with the lovely horses in our family now. Look for us all over AZ!

Happy Trails,

Jolese George

We had a great time at the Arizona Paint Horse Club Fall show with our yearling filly, Kit! We had the opportunity to meet a lot of people and we will definetly be attending more of the APHA shows. The atmosphere was so great and everyone was saying good luck and congrats! It was a nice change for sure. Kit was really irritated at this show and would just not stand still for judging. We are going to work on her a lot more about standing still so we present a better immage. This was for sure the biggest halter class I have ever shown in and we had eleven yearling mares in the class! We didn't place GREAT, but we did get a 5th under one judge

The September Blue Ribbon Horse Show marked the first show for our newest additions, Political Party and Plain Party Dress. It went as well as we expected for a first outing with our yearlings and we were especially proud of "Kit" who placed well in her class and was very well behaved. Here is our overview:

Political Party "Copper" was his normal naughty self, but it was his first show and he is constantly improving. Our yearling stallion / gelding class had a total of four entries, of which we placed third. It was a tough class, and it was a fair placing. We finally got some great pictures of our boy though!

Plain Party Dress "Kit" did very well at this show. She had a little bit of an advantage, as she was shown in three weanling futurities, which she won. There were six fillies in our class and we placed 2nd under one judge and 3rd under another in a tough class.

Congrats to everyone else who showed, it was our first Blue Ribbon Show and everyone was VERY nice, we will definetly be back next show!