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FEATURE: BEHIND THE BUCKLE- TERRY AND LIZ SMITH STAR MARE VINTAGE WHISKEY Q-81337
BEHIND THE BUCKLE
Hugh Miles and Vintage Whiskey Q-81337 with the 2025 Willinga Park Gold Buckle $ 100,000 Cheque- Photo credit: Ropes & Spurs
Terry and Liz Smith star mare
Vintage Whiskey
PHOTOS BY: ROPES & SPURS PHOTOGRAPHY / TYLER PALMER / STACIE WELK / BRIE STANGER PHOTOGRAPHY
Q-81337
WINS THE WILLINGA PARK GOLD BUCKLE
When the pressure is at its peak and only 1.5 points separate you from the pinnacle of campdrafting, what do you do? If you’ re part of the team behind Vintage Whiskey Q-81337, you wait, and hold your breath for the perfect run.“ We were just hoping a cow would come into the yard that would suit her and Hughie,” they recall.“ If she could finish in the top 10 of the Willinga Park Gold Buckle, we would’ ve been over the moon.” But what followed, was a moment they’ ll remember forever.
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