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History
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Brett Stoops, a fourth
generation horseman, chose the performance horse discipline at which to
excel; namely the calf roping and team roping events. As an AQHYA youth
exhibitor Brett won the 1997 AQHYA Reserve Word Championship in calf
roping and placed in the top five in the heeling. He earned the 1997
AQHYA High Point exhibitor award in both Calf Roping and Breakaway
Roping events.
Brett spent the next four years working under AQHA World Champion
trainers, Gary Wells, Lone Grove, OK and Robbie Schroeder, Gainesville,
TX. In 2002 he opened his own training operation in Hempstead, TX. |
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As a professional, Brett has been consistently proving his abilities as
a trainer and showman. He has trained both AQHA and APHA calf roping
and team roping horses, coinsistently winning awards at the major stock
shows and breed associtiation shows around the country. In 2008 Brett
earned the AQHA Reserve World Championship in Junior Tie Down roping
aboard Smokin' Real Gun, a 2004 sorrel stallion by Real Gun, owned by Steve Toddy, LaGrange, TX. |
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Brett's amateur exhibitors have won calf roping, heading, and heeling
events at the major breed association and stock shows around the
country. Brett works with youth exhibitors as well. Other areas of
expertise include starting two year olds and giving lessons to both
yourh and amateur riders. He has trained calf roping horses that have
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Brett Stoops is a member of the AQHA Professional Horseman's
Association as well as the USTRC. In 2009 Brett and his partner Marty
Lindner placed 6th in the average at the Thunder Equigames WSTR in Las
Vegas, NV.
In February, 2005 Brett appeared on the cover of Horse and Rider Magazine with the horse I Have Papers,
owned by Andrew K. Currie, VMD. His article "Got Broke", written with
Sue Copeland, gave tips on how to get horses of any breed or discipline
"bomb proof". In the October, 2010 AQHA Journal Brett's article "Corner
Control", witten with Tanya Randall, gives insight into using a ground
pulled roping dummy to improve your heading and heeling horse's
approach to the steer.
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