Nathan Piper Reining Horses

04/24/2025

Best of luck to our Youth riders competing tomorrow in the 2nd slate of Youth classes, here at the National Reining Breeders Classic.

04/24/2025

Courtney Hammit & Ruff Spook put together a very pretty ride today in the Non Pro.

04/24/2025

Patricia Kuenzli and Slide Me A Flinn had a nice run today in the Non Pro, with some huge stops!

04/24/2025

Millie Piper & Never Outta Dough, had a great ride today in the Youth 13 & under. Their score of 71 earned them 2nd place!

04/24/2025

Congratulations also to Dr Bonnie Beaver, and her horse, Ruf N Spooked. NRBC Open Classic Novice Horse Division, 4th place, and an L3 Finalist with a score of 217, earning $4553!!. Bonnie has been a long time supporter of our program, and we couldn't be happier for her! Looking forward to showing "Junior"again on Friday.

04/24/2025

CONGRATULATIONS 🏆 to our long time client, Leo Guimaraes and his beautiful mare, LG Hang Ten Dreams. After a tough NRBC Open Classic prelims, "Valentine" topped the L3 division, and made the L3 & L4 finals with a 221 score, earning $10444! We're looking forward to Saturday!

04/24/2025

Go Will!👏

𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧

While he may be classified as a Short Stirrup competitor, 10-year-old Will Davidson’s list of ambitions is anything but short.

Coming off a streak of Short Stirrup wins, Will is looking to get even more titles under his belt coming into this year’s NRBC aboard horse What The Fuzz. So far in 2025, the pair has placed in five classes, recently winning the Youth 10 & Under Short Stirrup at the The Spring Fling show and placing third in both slates of the Short Stirrup at the Oklahoma Ride & Slide.

Will and What The Fuzz are a fairly new team in the arena, as the Davidsons purchased the 7-year-old gelding from Cade McCutcheon this past fall. Known as “Fuzz” around the barn, he is by Spooks Gotta Whiz and out of Gotta Git Ya Dun.

Thanks to trainer Nathan Piper, the Davidson’s were able to find Fuzz.

“We’re very fortunate. Nathan helped us find Fuzz,” Casey Davidson, Will’s mom, said.

Through riding with Piper, Will has been able to make leaps and bounds in the saddle, making the long commute to ride with the successful trainer well worth it.

“We keep our horses at home in Nacogdoches – it’s very deep East Texas. So when we go to ride with Nathan, we drive about four and a half hours. We maintain Will's horse at home, but Nathan can also kind of tune on him a little bit at the show,” Casey said.

While Casey has competed at the NRBC in past years, this week she is just “momming it” and running Will and daughter Deanna (who's competing in the Non Pro this week) between arenas.

Will plans to compete in the Short Stirrup on Friday in the Central Park Hall arena. Having already marked several upper 60 scores—more recently receiving a 72 in a warm up class—aboard Fuzz in their short time together thus far, the youth rider has some big goals in mind. When asked about his goals in the Texas Reining Horse Association specifically, Will said, “To get first in the All-Around and win a saddle and buckle.”

Casey is grateful that the industry places an emphasis and focus on its youth competitors.

“It's kind of a big deal for Short Stirrups to win a saddle. We're excited about that. He's been working really hard,” Casey said.

Will might only have a couple years worth of reining experience, but those handful of years have brought some success – success the young cowboy is thankful for.

“(I would like to thank) my dad, for getting me to show, Mr. Nathan for coaching me, my friends, and then I have to thank my mom – she does all the show shirts,” Will said.

With such a committed support system and work ethic, a champion Short Stirrup buckle and saddle very possibly may be the next goal the team can check off their list.

04/23/2025

Congratulations to Courtney Hammit & Ruff Spook, Top 10 finish in the Non Pro today!

04/23/2025

Congratulations also to owners, Leonardo Guimaraes (LG Hang Ten Dreams), and Dr Bonnie Beaver (Ruf N Spooked). Both horses will advance to the NRBC Open Finals. 👏👏 Ruf N Spooked also picked up a check for 4th place in the Novice Horse Division.

04/23/2025

Also showing again tomorrow, will be Sumer Opinker & Tinker On The Rocks, for Hill Hill Country Reiners.

04/23/2025

We have two riders showing tomorrow in the Non Pro. Patricia Kuenzli & Slide Me A Flinn, along with Courtney Hammit & Ruff Spook. Good luck girls!!

04/23/2025

Congratulations Sumer Opinker & Miss Emily Jewell, Open Classic Finalists, for owner Dr Alicia Foley. 👏👏

04/23/2025

Coming in at draw 9 in the Short Stirrup, will be Will Davidson & What The Fuzz.

04/23/2025

Our Short Stirrup riders have been working hard, and tomorrow is their turn to show! First up will be Etta Piper, draw 8, riding Nite And Day.

04/23/2025

Shes Got Magnitude and Nathan laid down some huge stops in the Open Classic Prelims today. "Lil G" is owned by Lisa Klaus.

04/23/2025

Our third rider to go in the Youth tomorrow, will be Millie Piper & Never Outta Dough.

04/23/2025

Next of our youth riders to show tomorrow, will be Deanna Davidson & Gotta Queen.

04/23/2025

Thursday will see the junior members of NPRH in the arena. First up will be Courtney Hammit and Miss Spangled, draw 2 in the Youth.