In the fall of 2011 Parade started his driving training. Mike says “Parade had natural
talent from the first time he wore a bridle.
It just came so easy for him.” With his biggest accomplishment still yet to come, at the
2012 World Show, Parade was entered in
driving classes for the first time and he handled it with the aplomb of a true champion.
He won World Championships in the 3 Year
Old Country Driving class, Country Pleasure 32”-34” and the Versatility class. At the
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last night of the World show, Parade won the
Heermann - Best All Around Horse award,
making a sweet victory for the breeder, manager and trainer team that had worked hard
to get Parade to this point. This was an unheard of accomplishment for a horse that was
just three years old!
In 2013, Parade’s class list grew, adding
Hunter to his repertoire. Then, on a whim,
Mike entered him in the Roadster class at the
Central Championship Show that year. Not
surprisingly, he took to it like a duck to water! At World Show that year he was named
World Champion Versatility and World
Champion Country Pleasure Driving, 32”34” and placed Top Five in Open Hunter,
Open and Gentleman’s Roadster and Senior
Geldings 32”-34”. When the points were
tabulated and again Los Arboles Idols Hit
Parade was named Best All-Around Horse,
the Parade team was thrilled. Only one
other time in AMHA’s history had a horse
achieved this heroic title more than once.
In 2014 Parade set a record by being
crowned World Champion Best All-Around
Horse for the third consecutive year. He accomplished this by adding World Championships in Country Pleasure Driving Geldings,
three Reserve World Championships, one
each in Open Roadster, Versatility and Halter Geldings 32” to 34”. He was also leased
to an AMHA new comer, Carlee Dupuy, for
Youth 8-12 classes. They added two more
World Championships to Parade’s long list
with Youth Halter Geldings 8-12 and Youth
Country Pleasure 8-12. Winning the World’s
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