The Road to the Horse is an annual colt-starting competition held at the Alltech Arena in the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.[1] Three trainers are invited to choose a colt from a remuda of untouched three-year old quarter horses provided by the American Quarter Horse Association. They then have a specified amount of time over three days to gently get a saddle and tack on the colt and ride it. Road to the Horse is owned and produced by Tootie Bland.[2][3] In the past the competition has been held at Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas[4] and Tennessee Miller Coliseum in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.[5]

Winners

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Road to the Horse winners[6]
Year Trainer Horse
2003 Clinton Anderson (horse trainer) Hancock Sug
2005 Clinton Anderson
2006 Stacy Westfall Doctor T Tari
2007 Chris Cox (horse trainer)
2008 Chris Cox
2009 Richard Winters (horse trainer)
2010 Craig Cameron (horse trainer)
2011 Chris Cox
2012 Team Australia-Guy McLean & Dan James (horse trainer)
2013 Guy McLean
2014 Jim Anderson (horse trainer) Speedy Cream
2015 Chris Cox
2016 Nick Dowers
2017 Vicki Wilson (New Zealand) Boon River Lad 'Kentucky'
2018 Vicki Wilson (New Zealand) Wyoming Pick | Crowns Lad

References

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  1. ^ http://www.kyhorsepark.com/events/road-horse-0
  2. ^ http://www.americanhorsepubs.org/newsgroup/13140/ [dead link]
  3. ^ "Chris Cox wins 2015 Road to the Horse". Archived from the original on 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  4. ^ "The Victoria Advocate - Google News Archive Search".
  5. ^ "The History of Road to the Horse".
  6. ^ "The History of Road to the Horse".