Lexington, Ky. - Gabriella Kammerer, Dani Latimer, Cade McCutcheon, and Jack Medows are rising stars in the reining world. They will get their first dose of international and team experience when they compete on the Platinum Performance U.S. Young Rider team in the 2017 SVAG FEI World Reining Championship for Junior and Young Riders August 9-12. This impressive group of diverse athletes will bring depth and experience not often seen in riders of their age to the show pen in Givrins, Switzerland. Learn more about them and their accomplishments as they prepare to represent U.S. reining in Switzerland.
Gabriella Kammerer (Mt. Sterling, Ky.), known as “Boo”, is a 16-year-old high school junior. Kammerer has been showing reining horses since 2014. Some of her major accomplishments include being named the two-time Kentucky Reining Horse Association Champion, as well as the two-time National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) East Central Affiliate Champion. In addition, Kammerer garnered the NRHA Derby APHA Championship title and named the Clayton Woosley Hall of Fame Champion, Buckeye Reining Classic Champion, Tennessee Reining Horse Association Futurity Champion Level 1 and Level 2, IEA Reserve National Champion, and the Central New York Reining Horse Association CRI Silver Medalist. Kammerer will ride her own Gunners Star, a 2009 Paint gelding, in the SVAG FEI World Reining Championship for Juniors and Young Riders.
Dani Latimer (Marietta, Okla.) is the 16-year-old daughter of Dean and Bunkey Latimer. She has been showing horses since the age of six, with much success in the show pen. Her accolades include winning the 2016 NRHA NAAC Adequan© Affiliate Youth 14-18 Championship. Latimer loves the challenge of competing in reining and the many friends she has met through participating in the sport. Latimer will ride Fancy Sailor Oak, Angelucci Quarter Horses' 2006 Quarter Horse stallion, in the SVAG FEI World Reining Championship for Juniors and Young Riders.
Cade McCutcheon (Aubrey, Texas) is the 17-year-old son of NRHA million dollar riders Tom and Mandy McCutcheon, grandson of NRHA multi-million dollar rider/NRHA Hall of Fame member Tim McQuay and NRHA Hall of Fame member Collen McQuay. Starting as soon as he could walk and ride a stick horse, he ran every NRHA reining pattern he could. At age seven, McCutcheon made his reining debut in the first ever Short Stirrup class. By 10-years-old, he was showing in his first NRHA Non Pro Futurity. Some of McCutcheon’s accolades include the NRHA Non Pro Futurity Reserve Champion title, the National Reining Breeders Classic (NRBC) Reserve Champion title, and the 2016 SmartPak Tulsa Non Pro Derby champion title. Since then, McCutcheon has been a top finisher in every major NRHA event he has ridden in. He will begin his senior year of high school in the fall where he will finish his final season of basketball. McCutcheon will ride Tim and Colleen McQuay’s Yellow Jersey, a 2004 Quarter Horse stallion in the FEI World Reining Championship for Juniors and Young Riders.
Jack Medows (Cuba, Mo.) was born and raised in Cuba, Missouri. In 2016, he started an academic road towards earning his Civil Engineering degree at Missouri Science & Technology in Rolla, Mo. Medows spent most of his life on a horse and began reining in 2011. Since then, he has garnered numerous titles, including the 2014 NRBC Levels 1, 2, and 3 Champion, the 2014 American Quarter Horse Youth Association (AQHYA) World Champion in Reining, the 2015 NRHA Derby Non-Pro Reserve Champion, and the 2016 AQHYA World Champion in Reining. He was also the 2016 NRHA Futurity Non Pro Champion and the 2017 NRBC Non Pro Champion. Medows will ride his own Wimpys Show Stopper, a 2006 Quarter Horse gelding in the FEI World Reining Championship for Juniors and Young Riders.