Vaughn Zimmerman NRHA Million Dollar Owner

Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani

Jim Essick

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5 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

NRHA Million Dollar Owner Zimmerman, of Rogersville, Missouri, served on the initial board of the Reining Horse Foundation (RHF) from 2001 through 2004 and is an RHF Gold Donor. He served several years as an NRHA Board member (2005-2009) and was a member of the NRHA Finance, Sale, Hall of Fame, and Sire & Dam Committees. An NRHA Corporate Partner and National Reining Breeders Classic (NRBC) Gold Sponsor, Zimmerman has provided sponsorships at many regional and major events such as the Tulsa Reining Classic and the High Roller Reining Classic. He has provided support to NRHA Affiliates through donations of stallion breedings to many breeding program auctions.

In addition to owning top caliber performance horses, Zimmerman consistently brings highly sought-after consignments to the NRHA Markel Insurance Futurity Sales. In 2011, he consigned the top seller, Commanders Lil Step, who sold for $200,000. The next year, he consigned Not Ruf At All. However, he made what can certainly be deemed now as a very wise decision and chose to keep the colt, who went on to win the Level 4 Open at the 2013 NRHA Futurity, 2014 NRHA Derby and 2016 NRBC, becoming the third reining Triple Crown winner.

Zimmerman is also involved in other areas of the horse industry including reined cow horse and Thoroughbred race horses, but his passion is the reining horse. His contributions have made, and will continue to make, reining a great sport. He has paved the way for his grandchildren – Taylor and Jacob Zimmerman – to continue the Zimmerman reining legacy. Both are very active in aged events, and they also share the same passion Zimmerman has for reining.

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0:00.0	I'm Hey guys, thanks for tuning in. Welcome to another episode of Along for the Ride.
0:33.7	I'm Andrea, your host, and I've got Tutal here, as always helping me out. I'm sorry we haven't been very consistent on this as I told you before the pre-futurity season and now future this season it's in full force. I'm actually recording from the AQHA World Show. I'm here showing I'm showing tomorrow in the finals so we squeezing one in, but I really wanted to get you
0:54.4	this one because I've got a special guest today. Von Zimmerman is with us. I've been wanting to
0:59.6	talk to Vaughn for quite a while, and the reason why is because we've had some great breeders before.
1:05.3	I mean, we talked to Carol, Rose, and a few other guys, but I think that Vaughn really stands
1:10.4	out on his own in this sport and other disciplines also.
1:14.9	But the fact that he's a top owner and a top breeder in this sport really makes him really stand out.
1:21.4	He's been involved for very many years, not just in Rainey.
1:24.5	When I worked for Todd Bergeny on Bull Night Dancer that won the Snafflebe Futurity.
1:29.4	He's deviled in race horses, AQHA, and now even more in the Thor Bradds.
1:34.0	He's just had a horse that raised the Breedars Cup just a few days ago.
1:38.1	He's really a true passionate.
1:40.7	And to me, it's the description of excellence.
1:42.5	We always talk about excellence and talk about
1:45.0	owners that have the true integrity of the sport and they're in it for the right reason. And I
1:50.0	couldn't think of anybody better than Vaughn. So, you know, he's had some great stats. He's on more
1:54.9	than, I think, $2.2 million of horses that they've earned in different disciplines. These bred horses over a million dollars.
2:03.0	He's just being inducted in the NRAO fame. It's just, I don't know, just really good guy in our
2:08.5	industry and it's somebody that I really look up to. I want to thank our sponsor today. It's
2:14.4	Travis Thielsen. Travis concentrates on doing custom leather and silver
2:19.4	work, mainly headstalls for show, show headstalls, but also all sorts of accessories from
2:24.9	belts to wallets, whatever you name it. He can do custom work. He will be at the rainy futurity
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