Colleen McQuay- Great Horsewoman known as a driving force in the equine world of Hunters & Jumpers and Reining.

Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani

Jim Essick

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5 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Colleen McQuay, along with her husband Tim, own and operate McQuay Stables, Inc. in Tioga, Texas. The business consists of three divisions: Breeding, Reining training and sales, and Hunter-Jumper training and sales.

25+ years Colleen with help of her husband and other mentors in the hunter business, she has trained both horses and riders to many wins and championships. She served on the board NRHA -Show Standard Committee and initiated the NRHA show rating system, Executive Board and chaired Event Production Committee for NRHA Futurity & Derby.. Chaired the Aged Event Committee, Eligibility Committee and the USEF High Performance Reining Committee, Colleen is also a founding member of USA Reining. Founder & developer of the NRBC and the Ariat Tulsa Reining Classic, Colleen has spent countless hours working to better the Reining industry.

Even after decades in the industry, her sincere love of horses permeates and guides everything she does – from administrative direction to hands on horsemanship. Through her administration and implementation skills, Colleen has become known as a driving force in the equine world. Those who know her best cite her as an unquestionably great horsewoman; one with an uncanny eye for spotting equine talent, an unerring knack for keeping horses sound and working to potential, an an exceptionally skilled coach of riders of all skill levels.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody.
0:02.0	Welcome to a new episode of Along for the Ride. I'm Andrea, your host, and two tolls on the other mic.
0:24.6	And today we have a pretty cool guest. We're going to be talking to Colleen McQuay, in my opinion, one of the best horsewomen in the business.
0:33.6	And what I mean by that is that I believe that she's different than anybody that we've ever talked to in the fact that she has a ton of experience, both the raining and the hunter jumpers.
0:45.6	Colleen has had her own business alongside Tim's, her husband, and they've been successful at whatever they've been doing for the last probably 20, 30 years at least.
0:56.0	Tim is a multi-million dollar rider, is a breeder, and together with their daughter Mandy,
1:03.0	basically you can tell that they're one of the families that have been the most involved in the business of reining,
1:09.0	and of all aspects of the business. Colleen has been dealing with the open part of it with her husband Tim she's been
1:15.5	dealing with the non-pro part of it with her daughter Mandy and also now with
1:20.2	her grandkids that are showing in the youth first and now Kate that turned pro
1:25.0	so that's why I kind of wanted to talk to her
1:27.7	just because I think she has an overall view
1:30.6	of the whole industry as far as, you know,
1:34.2	between her clients and her own non-pros
1:36.7	and her own family, basically she's seen it all,
1:39.3	you know, from where you start as a youth rider
1:42.3	to where you become a serious non-pro
1:44.1	and then turn into an open rider.
1:46.0	And also they've had a lot of non-proes that have showed with them through the whole years.
1:50.0	She'll probably mention David Silva. I remember David from the first time I moved here to the States.
1:54.0	He's been in their program the whole time.
1:56.0	And they just have a lot of non-proes that have been very loyal.
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