2002
sorrel mare daughter of Zip to the
Topnotch This mare gives
testimony to the grace, intelligence and dispostion that Zip to the
Topnotch passes to his offspring. Kayla placed in every class entered
during her her two-year-old year, with numerous firsts. To top it off,
she was shown by a child, who was also a major player in her training.
Kayla
suffered a hip injury during her three-year-old show season and had to
be retired from showing. Thus, she was bred in an effort to reproduce
her superior movement and disposition.
Kayla has two offspring: Topnotch Tux and Tails, a 2008
gelding by Mr. Coats n Tails,( a
16 hand bay son of Coats n Tails), and A Gucci Zipper, a 2007 bay mare
by Guicci
Only.
At age four Kayla was cleared by the vet
for light trail riding, but she was not expected to be able to return
to the
show ring. We have ridden her sporadically, and she is still totally
broke and has shown no lameness during or after trail rides, or while
running around the pasture. In the summer of 2009, we pulled Kayla
straight out of the pasture after many months of no riding, and put her
through a horsemanship pattern. She did quite well. A video of that
pattern is available upon request. Last summer we put a small child on
her and she was totally safe.
We are
reluctantly offering Kayla for sale as a trail horse or kids horse for
light riding, or as a brood
mare.
current stats (2010)
height: 15'1" hands
weight: 1000 lbs
Name: Zip on in Kayla
Sex: mare
Birth date: April 19, 2002
Color: sorrel
Markings: two hind stockings, thin strip
Sire: Zip to the Topnotch Dam:
This Kittys n Style
Pedigree: see bottom of page
AQHA registration: 4228369
HYPP:
N/N
Bred to: open
Price: $1,800
Zip on in Kayla's
show
record
Three-year-old
year show season
shown by Clara Vaughn, age 13
During the 2005 season, at age
three, Kayla showed as an all-around horse at AQHA breed
shows, competing in Hunter Under Saddle, English Equitation,
Showmanship, Western
Pleasure, Horsemanship, and Trail. Kayla did not finish the show season
due to her career-ending injury.
Kayla
and Clara were the 2005 Ozark
Quarter Horse Association
Reserve Champions in Equitation and Horsemanship in the
Novice Youth division.
Two-year-old year show
season
shown by Clara Vaughn, age 12
South Central Horse
Show Association Open Shows
Kayla and Clara participated in three SCHSA shows while Kayla was a
two-year-old, competing primarily against adults in Novice Western
Pleasure and Junior Western Pleasure and against peers in Western
Pleasure 13 and under. After showing in a total of seven classes, they
had one blue ribbon, three seconds, and three third places, against
fields that averaged eight in a class.
Kayla won her first blue ribbon at age 25 months with just over 30 days
of training.
Later, at the Cross Country Trail Rides
show in Eminence, MO, they won $100 for taking first of 13 in Youth
Horsemanship and another $100 for first of nine in Youth Western
Pleasure.
They also took first place in large
classes at the Howell County Fair 4-H show and the Willow Springs
Saddle Club show.
Photo at left: Warming
up in the practice ring at Batesville, AR., during
Kayla's very first show, in May 2004. She was very quiet and
well-behaved in the ring
that day.