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Featured Equine: Trashadeous     By: Liberty Dewert

 

With a name like trash, it's hard to make a name for yourself.  Even for an amazing chestnut stallion with four socks and a huge blaze covering his face. But with not only the name barrier to overcome, Bill Horn's stallion proved to be one of the greatest reining horses to ever step (or slide) into the reining arena. 

It all started with Trashadeous' dam.  As a filly, she couldn't be registered with the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) because she had too much white on her.  The American Paint Horse Association's (APHA) registration rules declared that the filly didn't have enough white to be registered with them.  So what was an owner to do?  Horn decided to name the horse after the trouble.  Since it appeared no one wanted the horse registered with any association, her owner, Bill Horn, named her "Miss White Trash".   

In 1970, Horn started training Miss White Trash as a reining horse, hoping to enter her in the National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Futurity.  The event was one of the leading events for three-year-olds of the growing sport. Then another problem popped up.  Contenders had to be registered in the AQHA, but they didn't want Miss White Trash.  To solve the problem, Horn began training her in cutting.   

She didn't let him down.  In the 1970 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity, Miss White Trash took fifth place out of 250 competitors.  It was at this show that the people from the APHA took another look at the horse and decided that she could be registered in their association after all.  After showing successfully for five years as a cutting horse, the NRHA opened its registrations to non-Quarter Horses.  Miss White Trash went on to win multiple NRHA Bronze Trophies and became an NRHA Hall of Fame inductee. 

In 1981, the mare retired to become a broodmare.  After several breedings to Horn's stallion, Be Aech Enterprise, they finally had a foal with markings that were suitable for AQHA registration - Trashadeous.  But there was one more problem.  Trashadeous' dam was not registered in the AQHA making him ineligible for registration. 
         
Horn was still determined to make this athletic colt, with balance and good conformation, a successful horse.  In 1989 work began, but it was a drawn out process.  Bill's wife, Kim, recalled that he was a bit wild, but picked up the reining maneuvers quickly.  Of the thirty colts at the trainer, he was obviously the fastest to catch on.