Kaleena Weakly and her new Lazy Loper gelding, Lopin For A Chex, did
just that and scored a check worth over $6,000 for winning the 3 Year-Old
Non-Pro Western Pleasure at the Congress. For Weakly, this is a
back-to-back win having won in 2009 with her roan
gelding, Sweet Movin Hotrod, and this is the third time she has won the 3
Year-Old Non-Pro at the Congress. It appears Weakly has a knack for
picking out futurity winners.
Weakly sat down with GoHorseShow.com in the Coliseum at the Congress to discuss her win and how she came about finding her newest Congress winner.
According to Weakly, she and her husband Josh spotted Lopin For A Chex (Lazy), at the Reichert Celebration in August and bought him from Kentucky trainer Scott Haines. Sixty days later, she won big at the Congress, just the sixth time she has shown him.
“This win was really not expected since we had just purchased him!” Weakly told GoHorseShow.com. “I guess the judges really liked him. I had a first and two seconds–that fortunately was enough for me to win. He is so good minded, and EH Pait (my trainer) let me do a lot of the riding. He is a very pretty bay and is very even font to back when he lopes.”
Weakly says that it is the first Lazy Loper she has owned and she has found him to be great minded. She doesn’t have to longe the three year old gelding because he naturally has a laid back and pleasant disposition.
Weakly’s trainer, EH Pait of Jonesboro, Arkansas, says that Lazy is a real “nice” futurity horse that is very trainable, high praise from the soft-spoken Pait. Upon further questioning, Pait also offered up that he likes him because “He profiles real well and has a great presence in the show pen. I believed she had a good chance of winning because he was a horse that had the potential, movement, and talent to do real well. I am excited that the judges awarded him for his talent and that Kaleena won her class.”
Debbi Trubee, General Manager of Pine View Farms along with Roger Landis, is very excited about the success of many Lazy Loper offspring at the Congress. Along with Weakly’s win in the 3 Year Old Non Pro, Mitch Leckey won the Limited Maturity Finals with No Doubt Im Lazy, and A Lazy Investment also received Reserve in the Limited Non Pro Maturity with Tanya Relander.
Lazy Loper offspring are also doing extremely well in Trail. Im Pretty Lazy owned by Andrea Schneebaum is leading the nation in Junior Trail, and A Lofty Loper owned by the Laurie Bock Trust is currently second in the standings in Junior Green Trail. Weakly sees trail talent in her young gelding as well. “I think Lazy will also be a great trail horse and plan on working with him on that event too.”
According to Trubee, Pine View sold five Lazy Loper offspring at the Reichert and the Congress Super Sale. The average price for the five prospects sold was $17,000, considerably higher than the sale’s averages. “They are great minded. He is homozygous for the black gene so he can’t throw sorrels or Palominos. They are usually gorgeous flashy bays with big white faces,” Trubee explained, when being interviewed at the Congress in the GoHorseShow.com VIP Lounge.
Want a Lazy Loper of your own? His breeding fee for next year is $2,000 with an early discount of $1800 if booked by January 18th, 2011. Watch for Kristen Galyean’s Lazy Loper weanling out of Vital Signs Are Good that she is really excited about as well as another one coming in 2011. Those foals are certain to make a mark in our industry.
GoHorseShow.com congratulates Pine View Farms, and the Farinas for an outstanding Congress with their stallion Lazy Loper, and know they will have a prosperous breeding season in 2011.
