Dr. Jim Morgan DVM, Million Dollar Rider, Finalist 40 NRHA Futurity Finals

Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani

Jim Essick

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5 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Forty years, forty horses, forty NRHA Futurity finals! Dr. Jim Morgan, DVM reached an ultra impressive milestone in his reining career during the 2019 NRHA Futurity. At 74 years old, he’s still showing three year olds at the biggest event of the year. Dr. Morgan is the oldest NRHA million-dollar rider in history of Reining and still extremely competitive against people who are at least 50 years younger than him. He has an unstoppable thirst to learn and compete which one can attribute his success too. Our conversation is with a man who has dedicated his life to horses; as a vet, showman, trainer and breeder, he is a horseman with wisdom and knowledge few have.

Adding to this impressive resume, Dr. Morgan is an NRHA Lifetime Member, Hall of Fame Member, past-member of the NRHA Board of Directors and an NRHA Judge. He has participated in every industry event imaginable, all while continuing his work as a veterinarian.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody.
0:16.0	I'm Andrea and this is going to be another great episode of a launch the ride.
0:22.0	I've got Jim on the mic with me.
0:24.9	And today we just got done with the first horse show of the year.
0:29.5	I took a bunch of my horses to the Sun Circuit.
0:31.8	It's an AQHA show here in town in Scottsville.
0:34.5	Huge show this year was a, I think somebody told me,
0:39.3	it was over 2,000 horses here.
0:42.5	So it's a huge show, but it's really well set up for the raining. And the reason why I go there is because it's right before the big cactus classic,
0:47.7	the big first derby of the year.
0:49.3	So, you know, and these horses have had two, three months off,
0:52.2	some of them even more since the Derby's last year.
0:55.1	So it's a perfect place to go test out the waters and kind of see, see where everything is.
1:01.1	We took a bunch of them.
1:02.4	I took, I think, about 22 horses between some three-year-olds first time out and derby horses.
1:10.0	I'm trying myself to figure out what I'm going to show in the
1:12.7	derbies this year. And so I have to take quite a few and just kind of, you know, some of the
1:17.8	young ones that we showed at the futurity, take them back out and see what they feel like. And then
1:21.7	some of the older guys, I've got a couple seven-year-olds that I took and just school just to just to get
1:26.8	ready. So so you know
1:28.7	we're back at it for sure we've got about a week now in between and that's why I'm
1:34.7	here talking to you guys I'll try to record a couple episodes this week and and then
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