Nineteen horses competed Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio vying for the Congress Championship title in the Masters Two Year Old Western Pleasure. Congratulations to Its Best To Be Hot ridden by Jay Starnes for the Rawlings Family of Australia. Jay won a check for $50,000 and the coveted Congress Champion title the night before his 32nd birthday.
Its Best To Be Hot is a 2011 black mare by Ken and Marilyn Masterson’s multiple AQHA World Champion producer, RL Best of Sudden and out of One Hot Mouse who was 8th in the 2009 Masters. She was bred by Voge Quarter Horses of Whitesboro, Texas.
RL Best of Sudden also sired the Reserve Congress winner. Alexandra Chavez’s bay mare, Bestseatnthehouse piloted by Rusty Green, brought home the Reserve Champion title and a check for $23,069.95. Bestseatnthehouse was bred and raised at Masterson Farms and is out of the Masterson’s mare, Invited Always.
“It was a great Congress,” Ken Masterson told GoHorseShow. “RL Best Of Sudden had nine Congress Champions, six Reserve Congress Champions and he sired the winner of the Open All-Around. We are particularly proud because five of those Congress Champions were won by RL Best Of Sudden foals that were bred and raised by Masterson Farms.”
RESULTS FROM THE 2013 CONGRESS MASTERS
1 –
Its Best To Be Hot, Rawlings
Enterprises LLC, Jay Starnes
2 –
Bestseatnthehouse, Alexandra
Chavez, Rusty
Green
3 –
Cool Lookin Moonie, Allen
& Marilyn Wade, Brian Cox
4 –
Lope Out The Doubt, Linda
Lyda Swenson, Shane
Dowdy
5 –
Lindsay Lopin, Highview
Ranch QH Inc, Kenny Lakins
6 –
Completely Lazy, Diana
Schramm, Ty
M Hornick
7 –
RR Certain Blessing, Capall
Creek Farm LLC, Angie
Rigdon Cannizzaro
8 –
Shes Blazing Cool, Starland
Ranch LLC, Gil
Galyean
9 –
Gotta Knapp For That, Knapp
Quarter Horse Farms LC, Patrick
Heeley
10 –
I Dance In The Dark, Randy
Kimmel, Shane
Pope
Click here for complete results courtesy of OQHA.com
Jay Starnes becomes the first rider to repeat as Masters Champion in its nine year history.
Starnes was the unanimous winner of the inaugural Masters class in 2005
when he took home a check for $100,000 aboard Flashy Looking Lady.
PAST MASTERS WINNERS
2005 – Jay Starnes – Flashy Looking Lady
2006 – Jeff Long – Only In The Moonlite
2007 – Tina Kaven – Good Luck Girl
2008 – Kenny Lakins – One Lazy Investment
2009 – Rusty Green – Certainly Inspired
2010 – Katy Jo Pickard – A Slow Burn
2011 – Gil Galyean – Suddenly A Cool Lady
2012 – Angie Rigdon Cannizzaro – Moonlite Ventures
2013 – Jay Starnes – Its Best To Be Hot
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