LCC Spring Horse Show a Galloping Success

LCC Horse Training & Management and Equine Business faculty and awardees (left to right) Jason Kravig, HTM Instructor; students Sarah Sigrist, Tanner Boyes, Riley Page, Brooke Devore, Kelli Gaylord, Bayley Donahue; EBM Instructor Marilyn Camarillo; and HTM Lead Instructor JJ Rydberg stand in circle. Karli Zeniuk is seated with her HTM Student of the Year saddle. Sarah Rowe is not pictured.

LAMAR - Lamar Community College presented its annual Spring Horse Show April 24 to demonstrate its Horse Training & Management (HTM) and Equine Business Management (EBM) students' skills at riding and training horses.   

Students showed a total of 68 horses.

Tanner Boyes of Woodland Park, CO earned All-Around Male HTM Student honors, receiving a buckle and a $500 scholarship.  Riley Page of Cornville, AZ received second place and a breast collar.

Kelli Gaylord of Canyon City, CO earned All-Around Female HTM Student honors, also receiving a buckle and a $500 scholarship. Brooke DeVore of Conifer, CO took second place and a breast collar.                                   

Sarah Sigrist of Grand Junction, CO was recognized as the Most Improved HTM Student and received a buckle and a $500 scholarship.

Earning the HTM Student of the Year saddle donated by Colorado Correctional Industries was Karli Zeniuk of Round Hill, Alberta, Canada.

Sarah Rowe of Strasburg, CO came in first place amongst EBM students at the show, earning a $500 scholarship.

Bayley Donahue of Breckenridge, CO was selected as the EBM Student of the year, earning a buckle.  

This year’s show judge was Matt Koch.  An LCC alumnus, Kock completed his internship with Lloyd Cox (Ft Morgan, CO), a leading cutting horse trainer.  After his graduation in 2005, Koch worked for Lloyd for three years before going to Haythorn Ranches (Maxwell, NE) to be their lead trainer.  He now trains and shows all show horses. Last fall, Koch won the Waldo Haythorn Futurity and the Four-Year Old Ranch Horse Class at the Ranch Rodeo Finals in Amarillo, TX.

This is the first spring show to be held in LCC’s new Equine Complex, a $1.9 million dollar capital construction project to renovate and expand the facilities to be on par with LCC’s signature occupational program.