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Breakin Hearts (Ellie)
Foaled 15 August 1995 Bred by the Addyman Family of NSW Australia
Sire: Rule Breakin Q-31132 Dam: Nareeb Nareeb Olympic Gold Q-12169
Ellie was named Breakin Hearts because it took one look when
she was born and they knew she was going to break hearts in
the show pen.
Trained and shown by David Norbury, Ellie started showing
in 1996 and was named NPHA Weanling Halter Champion and
Reserve National and Victorian State Halter Champion. David
continued to train and show Ellie winning the AQHA Nationals
in Junior Horse Western Riding in 2000, David had many wins
with Ellie including AHS and Victorian State Junior Hunter
Under Saddle and many High Point Awards.
In 2002 Ellie was sold to Leonie Huber and exported to New
Zealand were she was named Supreme Halter Champion at the
2003 AmQHA-NZ Nationals. She also won AmQHA-NZ Nationals
in Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle, Reining, and Trail.
Ellie earned more than 800 points showing in New Zealand
and returned to Australia in 2005, where she won High Point
Awards at AHS and NPHA. Leonie and Ellie then showed at 18
Reining Australia Shows, winning shows in Victoria, New South
Wales and Queensland.
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In 2007 Mal Anderson bought Ellie for his daughter Kodi. At
their first major show Ellie was gated for being lame and the
Anderson family was promptly told that Ellie at 13 years old
was a broken down has-been with no ovaries. Ellie recovered
from her loose shoe to win the AQHA Senior Horse Reining
and Youth Western Riding at the 2008 Nationals. Ellie and
Kodi went on to win another 28 National and Reserve National
Championships in Australia, including an unprecedented 11
National Buckles, a Reserve plus the High Point Youth Buckle at
the 2011 AQHA Nationals. In the same year Ellie and Kodi won
the AHS Super Horse Title, the first Youth to ever win. They
have won High Point Youth at every major show in Australia
In May 2011 Ellie and the Anderson family moved to Texas to
campaign Ellie in the big shows in the USA. To date Ellie and
Kodi are credited with 121 performance wins and eight halter
wins in the AmQHA NSBA Reserve World Champion in Western
Pleasure, AmQHA Reserve National Champion in Trail, seven
Regional Championships and three Reserves.
Ellie and Kodi were recruited to the North Central Texas
College (NCTC) Stock Horse Team, where they won American
Stock Horse Association Collegiate National Championship in
Ranch Trail. They then competed at the Stock Horse World
Titles winning the Collegiate Ranch Pleasure, Ranch Trail,
Reining and placing 8th in the Cow Horse. NCTC won the
Collegiate World Championship Team. With a perfect score
of 100, Ellie and Kodi won the Overall Ranch Pleasure and
were Reserve in the Reining, making Breakin Hearts the first
Australian bred horse to win at an American World Show.
Breakin Hearts has won major events in nine associations. In
three different countries, she has over 2500 AQHA Points and
91 Awards. With 38 National or World Titles in Halter, Western
Pleasure, Western Riding, Western Horsemanship, Trail, Showmanship, Hunter Under Saddle, Hunt Seat Equitation, Reining,
Ranch Pleasure, Ranch Trail, 109 State or Reserve State Championships, a win in Reining and Reserves in Trail and Western
Riding at the AmQHA Youth World Cup.
Kodi and Ellie were also recently crowned Non Pro Ranch
Riding Champions at 2015 National Snaffle Bit Association
World Show.
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