McLaughlin Reining Horses

07/25/2025

Meeko's second show! Kayln and Meeko brought home their first $!

GPH had a fantastic time at the 𝐼𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑜𝒾𝓈 𝑅𝑒𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐻𝑜𝓇𝓈𝑒 𝒜𝓈𝓈𝑜𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃’𝓈 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞 last weekend in Cedar Rapids! Our team had fun and took home some high points, class wins and checks!

Thank you to our clients for making the show very successful and a lot of fun! Thank you Dawn Pyle and Veronica Thompson for being the picture crew this weekend!

📚𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗰𝘀𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁📚
𝙾𝚠𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝙱𝚢 𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚕𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝙱𝚢 𝙺𝚊𝚕𝚢𝚗 𝙳𝚒𝚡𝚘𝚗
🏅4th Green Horse
🏅12th Green Horse

This was ”Meeko’s” 2nd Show and we saw some big improvents since the last one! We cant wait to watch her keep improving!

03/25/2025

08/27/2024

Sending a big congratulations to Knightwerx Quarter Horses & their fancy mare "SILVER WHIZKEY SHOT" piloted by Glen Estival, marking a 218 in the NARS Open Derby to take home the L1 Co-Reserve Champion title and earnings of $2590! Their score also secured a spot in the L1 & L2 100x Open Derby Finals on Saturday, congratulations! ✔✔✔

06/21/2024

Great morning. Both Recip Mares Preg Checked in Foal.
Inferno 66 X Wound Up Chic
Smoking Trash X Wound Up Chic.

05/17/2024

💙Mirjam and Wind up Baby had a great ride in the 100x Cowtown Classic Open Stakes Prelims for Mindy Gray marking a 221.5!💙

Windy is by the amazing Spook Gotta Whiz and out of the incredible Wind Her Up Chic.

04/26/2024

Two sisters to Wound Up Chic out of Dunnit for Whizkey..
Good Luck!

Wishing the best of luck to Glen Estival aboard "GT CINNAMON" & "SILVER WHIZKEY SHOT", returning for the NRBC Open Classic Level 1 Finals tomorrow morning! Thank you Erinn Valencich/Knightwerx Quarter Horses for sharing your fancy mares!

02/03/2024

Over the past couple of years, the term “”ICSI”” has become a more common technology being used as an option for both mare and stallion owners in equine reproduction, but what exactly is ICSI and why has it become so popular?

ICSI stands for Intracytoplasmic S***m Injection—which in basic terms is the process of injecting a SINGLE s***m cell into the oocyte (egg) to fertilize it. This technology originated as a way to OPTIMIZE the success potential of both stallions and mares who may encounter reproductive challenges in one way or another (subfertility, limited semen quantity, etc).

In the case of a stallion having limited semen quantity availabe, ICSI is beneficial in that it utilizes a MUCH small number of s***m cells. This is done by cutting and thawing a small piece of a single frozen semen straw or by sending in a much smaller dose of fresh or cooled semen.

On the mare side, oocytes can be harvested through a process called “”aspiration”” anytime over the course of the year (vs. having to wait until breeding season for the mare to cycle) or even from ovaries that have been removed from a mare post euthanasia. Once oocytes are harvested and matured, the ICSI process begins.

A “Micromanipulator” is the specialized microscope used to inject the single s***m cell into the oocyte. This process is done by holding the oocyte in place with suction from a rounded glass pipet while the s***m cell is injected through the zona pellucida (exterior cells of the oocyte) and into the cytoplasm of the oocyte (or the center of the egg).

From there, highly trained and specialized lab technicians—known as Embryologists—monitor the now fertilized embryo for cell growth and development until it becomes a viable embryo for cryopreservation (freezing) or to be transferred into a recipient—a process that takes approximately 7-10 days.

12/15/2023

11/29/2023

11/24/2023

Gorgeous mare by spooks gotta whiz out of Wind her up chic

What a mare!!!❤️
Wind up Baby owned by Mindy and Raymond Gray
SGWxWind Her up Chic
“Windy” felt soo good and stopped huge...

📸 Chelsea Schneider

08/16/2023

Isn’t she pretty?!🥰
One of Janice Laney’s gorgeous yearling fillies, by Inferno 66 x WIND HER UP CHIC!