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Lipstick Top-Earning Mare

Posted on October 18, 2016
Dont Look Twice follows long line of success to surpass Meradas Little Sue’s record. “I do remember,” said Phil Rapp, 43, a career earner of more than $8.1 million as a National Cutting Horse Association rider, when asked if he remembered what it felt like to ride his first special horse. Tapeppyoka Peppy (Doc’s Oak x Senorita Peppy x Mr San Peppy), the chestnut 1980 mare Rapp started riding when he was 14 in 1984, definitely crossed his mind Oct. 12 in Columbus, Ohio. Rapp and the 7-year-old great-granddaughter of “Tap” whom he refers to as “Lipstick” or “Lippy,” due to her white lip markings, finished as Reserve Champions that night in the NCHA/Mercuria Open World Series of Cutting. A
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Potential Realized – Ranch Realized

Posted on May 25, 2015
A crystal ball. Every mother and father wishes they could look, could peer with squinted eyes into the future of their children. Where are they going? What will they be? Will the future bode well? Ray Baldwin didn’t have the luxury of a crystal ball. Neither did his wife, Bessie. None of us do. But Ray and Bessie set the example; they taught, they set expectations on the other side of hard work and a job well done. Neither lived to see the potential their youngest son, Louis, realized. Time was far too short. The Baldwins did not get the chance to meet their son’s wife or see their grandchildren find their versions of success. It’s been decades since that
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