12/09/2025
2025 NRHA - National Reining Horse Association Futurity | Foals-R-Us Recap 🎬
What an incredible show for the Foals-R-Us stallions, breeders, owners, and riders at the 2025 NRHA Futurity — $646,669.11 in offspring earnings! 👏🏻
Foals-R-Us Stallion Earnings:
• A Vintage Smoke – $379,370.81
• Spooks Gotta SPARK – $100,914.57
• Tricked Out Spook-official – $55,690.76
• No Smoking Required – $40,278.67
• Arc Gunnabeabigstar – $29,939.49
• Modern Gun – $24,194.10
• Wimpys Littlecolonel – $15,240.71
Our 2021 Foals-R-Us Breeders Incentive paid out $30,000 during the Futurity, rewarding the breeders, riders & owners who continue to invest in the future of our program.
A huge congratulations to Owen Deary and Smoking Bubblegun (A Vintage Smoke x Bubblegun, bred by Kimberly Tillman) on an outstanding week, earning $104,000+ and collecting:
🏆 Co-Champion L3, L2 & L1 Non Pro
🏆 Youth Champion
🏆 Challenge Co-Champion L3, L2 & L1
🏆 6th – L4 Non Pro Futurity Finals
🏆 Foals-R-Us Breeders Incentive Champion
Breeder incentives awarded:
• $7,000 to breeder Kimberly Tillman
• $3,000 to Owen Deary
Another standout moment — Rodrigo Nieves earned the Open Foals-R-Us Breeders Incentive, alongside Sergio Elia, breeder of A Vintage Kiss (A Vintage Smoke), taking home a $10,000 breeder check. Owner Maren Simonet Henderson taking home a check for $5,000 and Rodrigo a check for $5,000 and celebrated over $153,000 in total earnings as the 2025 NRHA L2 & L3 Open Futurity Champion.
We also congratulate Brian Bell and CEE TINSEL SPARK (Spooks Gotta Spark), bred and raised by George & Carol Bell, for earning $35,500+ as the NRHA Prime Time and Prime Time Challenge Champions, plus a 12th-place finish in the Level 4 Open Futurity Finals. What a debut for the first foal crop of Spooks Gotta Spark ⚡
And a special congratulations to Susan Strelioff and A Modern Beginning (Modern Gun) on winning the NRHA Non Pro Prime Time Championship.
From the breeders who believed first, to the owners, trainers, riders, sponsors, and the NRHA show staff — thank you. None of this happens without teamwork, dedication, and a shared commitment to the future of the industry.
We are incredibly excited as we look ahead to the 2026 breeding & foaling season. The next generation from Foals-R-Us champions yet to come.
The future is bright — and it’s being bred here.
