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FEATURE: PAST AQHA HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE making the semi final with Paul Farrell riding. This class also had 55 entries.
November came around and Quick Silver won the S / B Pleasure at the SA Championship Show, also won Champion Gelding and took out Hi Point Horse, with Trish( Fuchs) Wettenhall in the saddle. It was Dick and Trish Fuchs( now Wettenhall) who Judy says were a great help with Quick Silver ' s showing career and a lot of credit must go to them.
Photo L-R: Kevin Shaffer, Paul Cotterill( on‘ Silver’), Di and Lani Fender made up the display team- Moomba Parade
The following year as a 3yo, Quick Silver won the Moonbi three year old Reining Futurity with Dick Fuchs riding, collecting the trophy of a Trevor Young snaffle bit, and $ 1,300 in prize money. Also as a 3yo he was taken to Queensland by Dick to compete in the Australian Reined Cowhorse Association S / B Futurity- he placed in the top 6, even with his back leg wrapped in bandages from an injury he got from travelling. Silver was to win the S / B Maturity the following year, 1986 as a 4 year old in Queens land with $ 10,000 guaranteed prize money.
Still as a 3yo at the Victorian State Championship Show, Quick Silver won the S / B Western Riding, S / B Reining, and S / B Trail and placed in the top 6 S / B Pleasure, taking out the Hi Point Snaffle Bit Horse.
Silver with Paul Cotterill in Melbourne for Moomba Parade
At the South Australian Championship Show in 1985 Quick Silver placed 1st in the Cow Horse, 1st in the Trail, 2nd in Pleasure and took out Hi Point Horse of the show. In the 1985 / 86 summer season, called the Southern Circuit, Silver took out Hi Point Snaffle Bit Horse at Yarra Valley Classic, Lara and West Gippsland, plus Supreme Exhibit. Judy Cotterill remembers fondly ' At these bigger shows, Silver would get to chase a cow in the Cowhorse Event, usually at the end of the show. He was smart enough to behave himself all day as he just loved to get that cow, this was his reward, plus the jelly babies that he loved so much!'
In 1986 at the Victorian State Championships Show Silver again took out Hi Point Snaffle Bit Horse, again in South Australia at their State Championships he won the S / B Cowhorse, nearly bringing the roof down at the Waverley Showgrounds. ' The more people that yelled and cheered, the harder he went, Silver was a total showman!' said Judy.
Winner Hi Point Snaffle Bit I Hackamore Horse at the 1985 Southern Circuit
1987 saw Yulgilbar Quick Silver again win the Hi Point SIB Horse, and the same year at the Victorian State Championships he won the S / B / H Reining and Western Riding, Reserve Champion Cowhorse and Hi Point S / B / H Horse. Judy recalls ' In the same year he was taken to the Central Victorian Western Riding Association show, taken off the float and rushed into the Halter by Dick, competed in the Trail, Reining,
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