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 Then, Trashadeous was sold to Mitch and Debbie Zuckerman, longtime friends of the Horns. He remained at the Horns' farm and continued his schedule of working thirty minutes to an hour, five days a week, and then getting
two days of rest at turn out.
Trashadeous' first performance at the 1990 Quarter Horse Congress was not a sign of what was yet to come. In the ring he got confused and reared straight up. But even with this fault, he still managed such a wonderful performance that he placed third. His next debut at the NRHA Futurity was a little less disastrous. He placed second out of the 370 three-year-olds to earn a whopping $57,000. Then came the Lazy E Classic in April 1991. It was the coming out of what this reining horse could really do. Bill Horn still believes it was the best run of his life. This continued with the horse placing first or second in nineteen of twenty-three showings from age three to age five, and included winning the NRHA World Championship and the Saddlesmith Award. After Trashadeous turned six, it seemed that there was nowhere left to go. He had won everything reining had to offer. The Horns then reacquired a half interest in the stallion, and Trashadeous was retired to stud at the Horns' farm in Ohio. The next year he would be moved by the couple to Derby Daze Farm, a 77-acre facility in Ocala, Florida. The next big break for "Trash" was when the NRHA called Bill Horn to ask him to perform a reining demonstration in the Atlanta Olympic Games. Quickly, he put Trashadeous back to work preparing for his big performance, but the tide adruptly changed. The NRHA wasn't thrilled with the idea of Horn being on Trashadeous, and asked him to pick a different horse. They feared the touchy white-markings issue would prove too controversial for the Games. Bill Horn stood up for his horse and refused to ride another. Sadly, Trashadeous missed his shot at the Olympics in the end. So what's Trash doing now? His years at stud (as of September 1998) have shown fewer than three dozen foals on the ground. There is a logical explanation; Many owners don't want to breed their AQHA registered mares to non-registered stallions. If they do, their foals cannot be registered with the AQHA. On the flip side, the owners of paint mares are afraid of a foal with insufficient white markings. But "Trash" wasn't finished yet. In June of 1998, Bill Horn and Trash traveled to the Bayer/USET Festival of Champions. Both spectators and contenders loved their performance, so Trash might be able to compete again at a bigger level. The Horns hope that their stallion will be able to compete in the Cosequin/USET Reining Championships planned for this spring. The title will be a new one - the very first championship to be awarded in the newest USET sport. Not only does Trashadeous demonstrate impeccable reigning performance, he and his bloodlines also represents another larger moral. That "One man's trash is another man's treasure". Click here for a video of Bill Horn and Trashadeous. It takes some time to load, and requires Apple
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