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Memorable Affair and Jared Leclair claim NRHA Open.
Jared Leclair made the 2008 Fort
Worth Stock Show a reining to
remember by riding Memorable
Affair to the National Reining Horse
Association Open Championship.
Memorable Affair, a 2001 mare by
Major Vaquero out of Coronas Affair by
Corona Cody, has earnings of $93,840,
according to Equi-Stat records. Dell
Hendricks rode her to win the Tulsa
Reining Classic Futurity in 2004 for
then-owner Bob Stinner and went on
to make the Open finals at the NRHA
Futurity. Victoria Lambert purchased
the mare and Jordan Larson showed
Memorable Affair to the finals of the
2006 National Reining Breeders Classic
and NRHA Derby, and then placed
fifth at the 2007 NRBC.
The Stock Show was the first outing
for Leclair and Memorable Affair, who
earned $558 for their score of 146.5.
The Pilot Point, Texas, trainer said the
mare was simple to show. “She is really quiet and is a really big
stopper, real easy to show. She was a lot
of fun,” he said.
Memorable Affair’s unique stopping
style, with her neck and head stretched
out as she buries her hocks in the ground,
is the ideal for a reiner, Leclair said.
“That’s kind of what we’re looking
for – one that breaks their back really
hard, puts their nose down. She’s about
the ideal, what you want one to look like
and feel like when they’re stopping,”
he said.
The mare will have a limited show
career this year, Leclair added, as she continues
her second career as a broodmare. “We’re going to concentrate on
breeding her this year and just show her
enough to qualify her for the AQHA
World Show,” he said.
She got a start on the year’s points
by winning first under one judge and
second under the other in the AQHA
Any Age reining class, which also added
$230 to her record.
Memorable Affair already has produced
three foals, including Memorex, a
2-year-old colt by Dunnit In Hollywood
who was the second-highest seller at
the Legacy Reining Breeders Sale in
October 2007, with Lambert as the
buyer; and two yearlings by Wimpys
Little Step.
“ ‘Mable’ is such a special mare,”
Lambert said. “She loves to show and it
looks like her babies will have her signature
stopping style. I just feel blessed to
have such an exceptional mare.”
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