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Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani

004 Phil Rapp & Andrea Fappani

Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani

Jim Essick

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5635 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Phil Rapp of Weatherford, TX is a cutting horse trainer, inductee in both the NCHA Rider Hall of Fame[1] and NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame,[2] and the leading NCHA money earner with lifetime earnings totaling $9,733,216.88 as of Sept 2019.[3] He was elected vice-president of the National Cutting Horse Association in 2016,[4] and became president in June 2018. Phil & Mary Anne are Breeders of over $8,079,413.34. Mary Anne LTE $4,819,752.77 as a Non Pro, Ryan Rapp LTE $288,031.78 as Non Pro

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0:00.0

What's up, guys? Welcome to Along for the Ride. I'm Andrea. I've got Jim Essek here with me. I'm real excited today to talk to our new guest. This is the first guest we've had on the show that he's not a

0:21.7

rainer. It doesn't have anything to do with raining. He's a cutter, breeder, showman, owner,

0:27.5

you name it. He's done it all. And he's at the top of the charts no matter where you look at it.

0:32.1

It's feel rat. I've had a chance to meet feel a couple times at some horse shows and talked to him a little bit.

0:37.8

I don't know. I've just been attracted to him and the fact of how great he is and what he's done.

0:42.4

You know, just briefly for you guys that don't know who Phil is or have not really looked into it,

0:47.8

feel is pretty amazing. Him and his wife, Marianne, have been at the top of the charts for the last maybe 20 years.

0:53.3

Feel is a $ 9.7 million dollar

0:55.6

rider marianne is a 4.8 plus non-pro rider their son Ryan is just starting out and he's at 300,000

1:04.5

the list goes on I mean he's a breeder he's bred more than 8 million dollars worth of horses

1:09.9

he's on almost 10 million dollars or worth of horses. He's on almost $10 million worth of cutting horses.

1:14.5

He's been the president of NCHA.

1:16.4

He's the NCHA rider Hall of Fame member,

1:20.1

NCAA non-pro Hall of Fame member.

1:22.2

I mean, I can go on forever.

1:23.7

This is pretty amazing.

1:24.5

This guy, if I'm going to talk to anybody that's not a Rainer,

1:27.3

this is the first guy I wanted to talk to because what he's done in his career, it's been nobody's done it. And nobody's even going to come close to it. Even his family have got something down to a sign and I want to know more about it. He's a pretty cool guy. Just like I told you guys, I wanted to interview people that are great at what they do and what a better person than feel in Marion as far as what they're doing.

1:47.9

I think they're going to leave a legacy in what their industry is right now and what it's

1:51.5

going to be in the future.

1:52.5

I don't know.

1:53.0

I just want to talk to him and I think this is going to be pretty excited.

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