“A year ago today, I was in a hospital bed, one day after surgery for colon cancer. This is very surreal to be here showing a year later. I’m healthy now, so this is so special.”

“It was nerve-wracking!” she says. “I wasn’t going to count my chickens before they hatched, but she was so good today.”

Mrs. Kathy Tobin and her 13-year-old gelding “Roany” were third to go in the working order this morning in Select Trail at the 2017 All American Quarter Horse Congress. They scored a whopping 234 to stay at the top of the leaderboard outlasting 70 other entries to be named the Congress Champion.

“He got sick, and we had to leave the class. He spent about a week at The University of Ohio. We didn’t even know if he was going to make it.”

“To have first and second with these two horses is just beyond.”

“I’ve really found that Trail is a lot of fun, because it’s problem solving. If you solve the problem, you get the score. Then, you can come out and look at the cards and see how you did.”

The inclusion of a variety of Level 1 classes this year at the 2017 All American Quarter Horse Congress has provided amateur and youth exhibitors with the opportunity to compete against their peers.

“Jag” is a project that Troy has been working on since he was a yearling. “Alex Chavez and I picked him out as a yearling. Maggie [Grandquist] started him as a two-year-old and then last year I started working with him in Trail.”