Win the NRCHA Raffle Colt & Drive Away with a Sundowner at the
NRCHA World Championship Snaffle Bit Futurity
Byars, Oklahoma – May 30, 2002 – For nearly twenty
years, the annual Raffle Colt drawing has been a part of the National Reined
Cow Horse Association’s yearly calendar. Each year a 2-year-old has been
donated by the renowned Ward Ranch of Kingsburg, California, and given away
during the finals of the NRCHA World Championship Snaffle Bit Futurity.
Several of those raffle horses have gone on to
successful show careers. In 2002, the tradition continues but this year,
during the finals of the Snaffle Bit Futurity October 6 in Reno, Nevada, not
only will one lucky winner receive a new horse, another will “Drive Away
with a Sundowner!”
Sundowner Trailers of Coleman, Oklahoma, is the official
horse trailer of the National Reined Cow Horse Association, and provides the
Snaffle Bit Futurity Champions with a year’s use of a Sundowner Horse
Trailer. But, in 2002, it’s not just the exhibitors who have the chance to
win! As a part of its corporate partnership with the NRCHA, Sundowner is
also giving a 2003 Sundowner Valuelite Diamond Sport horse trailer - valued
at over $14,000 – to the winner of a special NRCHA raffle.
Chances on both the raffle colt and the Sundowner
trailer sell for $10 each and are available at NRCHA events throughout the
summer, as well as from NRCHA members and through the NRCHA office. The
Drive Away With a Sundowner promotion will also be a focal point at
participating Sundowner dealers throughout the United States, where
customers can purchase tickets on the trailer as well.
For the Raffle Colt, once again, the Ward Ranch has
donated one of their best 2-year-olds, a buckskin gelding named Plain Good
Nic, sired by Just Plain Colonel and out of Bopinic by Reminic. This
gelding has been started and ridden by the Ward Ranch this year and is a
full brother to an NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open finalist.