Tim McQuay and Mister Nicadual Earn Slot on US Reining Team for World Equestrian Games
At the Kentucky Horse Park during the 2006 Adequan®/United States Equestrian Federation® Open Reining Championship, it all came down to which of the 27 entries would become part of the U.S Reining Team for this summer’s World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. Tim McQuay will once again represent the United States as a part of the elite United States Equestrian Team.
Tim tied with Aaron Ralston for the reserve championship on Mister Nicadual, owned by Jerry Kimmel. Mister Nicadual is a six-year-old Quarter Horse stallion owned by Jerry Kimmel that has had a banner year in 2006.
“There’s no doubt in our mind that he’s proven what a great horse he is,” said Tim, shortly after the competition. “He’s won a considerable amount for two riders in a very short time span.”
Indeed, Kimmel purchased the horse late last summer and Tim made the finals at the American Quarter Horse Association World Championship show. But in doing so, a suspensory injury kept him from returning to the finals and caused a layoff until just a month before the National Reining Breeders Classic in April. “He noted, we knew we wanted to gear him toward the World Equestrian Games but we also wanted to show him to give him an opportunity for some career earnings.”
Tim had other commitments for the NRBC, so former rider Todd Crawford rode him at the NRBC and finished fourth – earning $42,000. Colleen McQuay notes, “There was such a short time after the NRBC before the Derby, we didn’t want to change programs on him, so Todd rode him there, too.” That resulted in another top ten finish.
Tim and Mister Nicadual were in top
form at the USEF Championships, marking
229.5, to earn a slot on the prestigious Team USA, along with
Champion Matt Mills and Easy Otie Whiz, Aaron Ralston and Smart
Paul Olena and Dell Hendricks on Starbucks Sidekick.
Tom McCutcheon will
also be traveling to Germany with Ruf Hearted Jac as the teams 1st
alternate.
Of course, Tim is looking forward to the trip to Aachen, Germany, "Everytime Dually goes to the ring, he tries to do what the rider asks. Dually has adjusted incredibly to two riders and he's just a very honest horse in the pen."
Tim says he really likes Mister Nicadual and he and Jerry Kimmel will plan his future after Aachen, He’ll likely be geared toward some large Open reinings – like the NRBC. “We think he has the mind and heart to show at more major events if they develop in the USA.”
