A 2-year-old chestnut gelding and a mother-daughter team from Colorado City have scored what may be a first.

Sue Guelker and her 17-year-old daughter Cheyenne won Championship and Reserve Championship honors showing the same horse Kid B Styling.

Sue was named champion in the Yearling Gelding Amateur Class at the American Quarter Horse Association Bayer Select Finals in Amarillo the last week in August. Cheyenne accomplished her Yearling Gelding Reserve Championship at the AQHA World Show Youth Finals in Oklahoma City in early August.

Next up? Both will show at the All-American Quarter Horse Congress Oct. 4-26 in Columbus, Ohio.

The horse is a Kids Classic Style out of a Coolest mare. The Guelker's trainer, Mike McMillian of Whitesboro, found the horse for the family in the spring.

Buddy Fisher of Abilene was one of a dozen judges at the Amarillo show.

"I didn't judge Sue's class," he said, but added that it very well may be the first mother-daughter team to win showing the same horse.

At least in the area surrounding Abilene, he agreed. He added that there may be a duo in the Dallas area.

Sue has been showing for 40 years and it was her first world championship. She qualified a trail horse a couple of years ago, but a family illness prevented her from attending the show.

Sue's Amarillo score was a 331 point total, beating out a Louisiana entry by one point. Her individual scores were three 120s and two 91s.

It doesn't mean anything in comparison, but Cheyenne's scores in Oklahoma were two 105s, 91 and two 78s for a 274 total. She lost to the champion from Nebraska, who scored 345 points.

The AQHA Bayer Select World Championship Show in Amarillo is an invitational event specifically for amateur exhibitors age 50 or older. It was the sixth year for the show.

Stamford's Leslie Harrison won back-to-back barrel racing titles several years ago. To qualify, exhibitors along with their horses must have earned a certain number of points in AQHA-approved shows between June and May.

The Guelker family will be in Abilene for the two-day quarter horse show that kicks off the West Texas Fair & Rodeo horse shows.

Cheyenne feels that if there is a show nearby, she's gotta be there, her mother said.

Abilene Spectacular in top cutting shows

The semiannual listing of 2008 cutting horse statistics again lists the Abilene Spectacular in early January as its top third show without incentives and fourth with incentives.

The survey includes shows held from Jan. 1 to June 30.

Incentives are money paid out for stallion programs within the cutting.

The Abilene Spectacular without incentives is listed third behind the National Cutting Horse Association Super States in April in Fort Worth and the Breeders Invitational in May in Las Vegas.

With incentives, the Las Vegas-based Millionheir Classic in March in Las Vegas slips into second place behind the Super Stakes and ahead of the Breeders and the Abilene Spectacular.

The Abilene Spectacular was created by Carolyn and Pat Gully to furnish an aged-horse event to immediately follow the NCHA Futurity. It gives cutters an early year show for their horses.

Schedule update

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Today Open Quarter Horse Show, Taylor County Expo Center Horse Barn, Abilene

Monday-Saturday West Texas Fair Rodeo, Taylor County Coliseum, Abilene

Friday-Sunday Big Country Cutting Horse Association, Nolan County Coliseum, Sweetwater

Saturday Open Horse Show, Taylor County Expo Center Horse Barn, Abilene

Sunday Open 4D Barrel Races, Taylor County Expo Center Horse Barn, Abilene