Wade Reaney and Kickback Nic Win Open Two Rein at 2011 NRCHA Stakes

 Source: National Reined Cow Horse Association

25 March 2011

With a 437.5 composite, Wade Reaney and Kickback Nic won the Open Two Rein Championship at the National Reined Cow Horse Association Stakes in Nampa, Idaho. The win netted owner John Prudden a check for $1,590.

Reaney, who trains out of New Plymouth, Idaho, has ridden the mare by Nic It In The Bud out of Desire A Chic, her entire career. They qualified for the Open finals at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity, and later went on to win the Idaho Reined Cow Horse Association Futurity. “I then had some trouble getting her shown her Derby years. Corey Cushing showed her a couple times and I just got her back a few months ago,” noted Reaney. “She’s a good mare. When she’s on she’s on – she just needed to be put in the bridle.”

The new formula worked, as Kickback Nic came out strong in the rein work with a 217. “She just felt really relaxed in the pen. Usually she’s pretty looky and has a lot of feel. She stopped hard and turned around well,” he said. That dry work was followed with a 220.5 in the cow work. “We had a tough cow. It ran hard by she was really on it. It circled fast and she just reached her neck out there and circled up real well.”

Reaney said that he and Prudden, who has been his customer for a number of years, plan to eventually enter the mare in some Open Bridle Spectaculars, noting, “She’s really good in the herd work. We’ll just see what she tells us.”

Riding Diamonds Are Smokin for Debi and Loren East, Brandon Buttars won the Open Two Rein Reserve Championship and $1,325. Diamonds Are Smokin, by Like A Diamond out of Shirley Smoke, marked a 216.5 in the rein work and a 220 in the cow work.

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