Teri Keetch

Steve Flaherty

Jim Ostler

Tom Keetch

Steve Flaherty

Shane Gower

Pete Kyle, Matt Mills, Lance Shockley

Pete Kyle

Along with being a new honorary board member for the Stallion Select Futurity.

Kyle Ranch is proud to be a charter member of the AQHA Referral Program and the AQHA Professional Horseman Program with Pete Kyle chosen the 1997 AQHA Professional Horseman of the Year. Pete also won the NRHA Open World Championship in 2001 aboard Dun It The Hardway.

Pete is proud to serve on the Board of Directors for the AQHA and the National Reining Breeders Classic (NRBC). He also chairs the USET Active Riders Committee for reining.

Pete and Tamra both hold several championship titles, and continue to show to great success!

Their ranch is located on 230 beautiful acres in Whitesboro, Texas, USA. Here you will see their many World Class Stallions standing at Kyle Ranch.

Matt Mills

The Stallion Select Futurity is honored to have Matt Mills sitting with us as an honorary board member. Co-Founder Steve Flaherty’s son Patrick Flaherty has shown and competed with Matt, while living in Arizona himself, and has been greatly impressed with Matt’s skills and growth as a trainer. We have all watched Matt excel in the arena. Matt’s business ethics and abilities as a trainer make him a great asset to our team as well as to the reining profession.

Born and raised in Long Beach, California, Matt began riding horses at an early age. He had a very successful career as a youth rider earning multiple championships throughout California in a variety of disciplines including western pleasure, horsemanship and trail.

In 1996 he switched his focus to reining. He qualified for the AQHA Youth World in 1997, but never made it to Fort Worth. Instead, the day after he graduated from high school, Matt headed to Scottsdale, Arizona. He had accepted a summer internship with top reining horse trainer Dell Hendricks. The summer internship quickly turned into a job offer and Matt spent the next five years as Dell's assistant trainer.

In early 2002 Matt established his own training operation in the Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona area. In the fall of 2003 Matt moved his training operation to Out West Stallion Station in the Rio Verde area of Scottsdale. It is a state-of-the-art facility that is fully equipped for training as well as breeding. Several stallions stand at Out West each year including Easy Otie Whiz, who was shown to several championships by Matt in 2005.

Matt coaches several successful non-pro and youth riders as well as showing futurity and derby horses. Matt also starts several two-year olds every year. A step-by-step article in the March 2000 Performance Horse Magazine outlines his technique.

Matt has been identified in the reining horse industry as an up and coming talent to be reckoned with. Matt's list of accomplishments include the NRBC Intermediate Open Classic Championship. He is an NRHA Intermediate Open Futurity Reserve Champion and the Limited Open Champion at the National Reining Breeders Classic. In 2002 he was on the USET Top 50 Riders List and in 2003 Matt qualified a horse for the USET Futures championship in Gladstone, New Jersey.

Through the years, Matt has consistently moved up in the reining industry. This was readily evident in 2005, when Matt won the Intermediate Open Championship at the NRBC, and was 3rd at the NRHA Derby in the Intermediate Open. As of August 2005, Matt's NRHA earnings are over $150,000.

www.mattmillsreining.com 

Lance Shockley

Lance Shockley has always lived his life around horses. Although he has enjoyed competing in events ranging from roping to western riding, his heart is in the reining. His love for the sport is evident in his many successes including recently:

2002 RMQHA Junior Reining Champion and AQHA Honor Roll Reserve Champion
2002 Summer Slide Intermediate Open Futurity Champion
2001 USET Olympic Festival Finalist
1999 NRHA Futurity Finalist
1998 RMRHA Open Rider of the Year

Lance makes his home in Loveland with his wife Jessica and daughter Kate. Together they enjoy hauling to all major NRHA events. The Shockley's completed their "dream barn" on their farm in 1998.