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2025 Horse of the Year Awards

25 Feb 2026 10:15 AM | Anonymous

The WHTA recognized the 2025 Horse of the Year Award Recipients at the 58th Annual Awards Banquet, held on February 14th at the Embassy Suites of Franklin, TN. The nominees who qualified for these awards were individuals who have won a World Championship or World Grand Championship within their division and have shown at least three times within the year as well as top high point earners within their specific division who have shown at least three times within the year. The winners were then voted upon by the membership. See below a list of all division winners. Please note, the reserve winner is listed first in RED and the winner is listed second in BLUE.


Horse of the Year Division Recipients
Leadline  Olivia Stembridge
Leadline McKinley Cutshaw
Amateur Two-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Capri
Amateur Two-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Floyd & Caryl Sherman
Weanlings Just A Barbie Doll JR
Weanlings Justa Hookup
Amateur Two-Year-Old Stallions Chosen CSF
Amateur Two-Year-Old Stallions Harvey Specter SBS
Yearlings

Ah Ah Ah Choo, Dizzy Dean RW

Yearlings

Clarabel Chugga Choo Choo, Mona Lisa Mona Lisa, Rythm Nation

Open Two-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Capri
Open Two-Year-Old Mares & Geldings A Gossip Girl
Open Lite-Shod Senorita Carmelita
Open Lite-Shod Space Cowboy SN
Open Two-Year-Old Stallions Sho-Time
Open Two-Year-Old Stallions Rival
Youth Show Pleasure I Am
Youth Show Pleasure Well Armed American
Open Trail Pleasure Sweet Walking Matilda
Open Trail Pleasure Blacklist
Youth Ponies I Am March Madness
Youth Ponies I Am Big Enough
Amateur Country Pleasure He's A Knight Rider
Amateur Country Pleasure Luciano
Amateur Adult Ponies Dark Rain
Amateur Adult Ponies I'm Charlie Black CFF
Amateur Novice Performance M.T. Pockets
Amateur Novice Performance I'm Senor Copperfield
Amateur Three-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Swanky L
Amateur Three-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Far Above Rubies
Amateur Elite (50 & over) Born A Maverick
Amateur Elite (50 & over) Jurist
Amateur Three-Year-Old Stallions Hurrah!
Amateur Three-Year-Old Stallions Tide Pride
Open Three-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Miss Lizzie McGuire
Open Three-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Far Above Rubies
Open Park Pleasure He's A Dixieland Delight
Open Park Pleasure Gin's Slingblade
Open Three-Year-Old Stallions Shoulda Been A Cowboy
Open Three-Year-Old Stallions Hell Or High Water
Open Fine Harness In Ted's Image
Open Fine Harness Cody James
Open Model Magnificent THF
Open Model My Miranda Lambert
Ladies Amateur A Neon Cowboy
Ladies Amateur TN Lineman
Amateur Four-Year-Old Mares & Geldings She's Lined With Love 4G
Amateur Four-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Smoochen With Charlie
Amateur Canter I'm Jordan
Amateur Canter Honor My Country
Amateur Four-Year-Old Stallions Straight Republican
Amateur Four-Year-Old Stallions Java
Amateur Park Pleasure Dixie's Legacy
Amateur Park Pleasure Jazzed Up Lady
Open Four-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Sir With Honor
Open Four-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Gimme A Redneck Girl
Amateur Lite-Shod Big Time Bandit
Amateur Lite-Shod Roscoe Jenkins
Open Four-Year-Old Stallions Wilhelm
Open Four-Year-Old Stallions Ohtani
Amateur Four & Five-Year-Old Country Pleasure Bodie
Amateur Four & Five-Year-Old Country Pleasure Crypto
Amateur Show Pleasure The Honor Code
Amateur Show Pleasure Southern Soul
Amateur Four & Five-Year-Old Trail Pleasure Enticed
Amateur Four & Five-Year-Old Trail Pleasure Cha Cha Ching SF
Open Park Performance Draw A Line & Wakanda
Open Park Performance Limbaugh
Amateur All Day Pleasure She's Never Been Kissed
Amateur All Day Pleasure Just A Steel Magnolia
Amateur Five-Year-Old Stallion Hotty Toddy Gosh A'Mighty
Amateur Five-Year-Old Stallion Sweet Black Gin
Youth 11 & Under The Comanche
Youth 11 & Under Da Hoss
Amateur Two & Three-Year-Old Country Pleasure Red Clay Stray
Amateur Two & Three-Year-Old Country Pleasure B. Purdy
Amateur Five-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Time To Be Glamorous THF
Amateur Five-Year-Old Mares & Geldings Jimmer's Country Girl
Youth 12 - 17 A Neon Cowboy
Youth 12 - 17 Quite An Honor
Amateur 15.2 & Under Stallions A Kingpin
Amateur 15.2 & Under Stallions Form A Line
Youth Trail Pleasure Imagine Dragons
Youth Trail Pleasure Sweet Walking Matilda
Open 15.2 & Over Mares & Geldings She's Lined With Love 4G
Open 15.2 & Over Mares & Geldings Me And Pochahontas
Amateur Trail Pleasure My Black Cadillac
Amateur Trail Pleasure Machete
Open Show Pleasure

Charlie Danger & YS Fly Like An Eagle

Open Show Pleasure Fist Full of Cash
Open Two & Three-Year-Old Trail Pleasure Lined Up To Bat
Open Two & Three-Year-Old Trail Pleasure Raylan Givens
Open Specialty Warbird
Open Specialty Millionaire's Row
Amateur Two & Three-Year-Old Trail Pleasure Talkin' Tennessee
Amateur Two & Three-Year-Old Trail Pleasure Tony V
Youth Country Pleasure Twenty Four Carrots ML
Youth Country Pleasure The Tiger Lilly
Amateur 15.2 & Under Mares & Geldings The Jackalope
Amateur 15.2 & Under Mares & Geldings Google.com
Amateur All Day Pleasure Five & Under The Queen Supreme
Amateur All Day Pleasure Five & Under Cowboy Copper
Amateur Specialty She's Salsarita
Amateur Specialty TN Lineman
Youth All Day Pleasure Betrayal
Youth All Day Pleasure IB Smokin Joe
Amateur Park Performance A Touche'
Amateur Park Performance DB Cooper
Open 15.2 & Over Stallions Jura THF
Open 15.2 & Over Stallions Justified Honors

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