NEWS

June 2008 -- It's been an exciting spring at Janssen Performance Horses!

In addition to being in the middle of a successful show season, the past 30-days have seen a flurry of media attention, starting with an article in the national magazine, Fortune Small Business, and Bob and Smart Chicaway's national Equi-Stat rankings announced in Quarter Horse News.

Tomorrow (Friday June 27, 2008), Todd Walker and KMSP/Fox9 News are coming out for a shoot which will air on Fox's popular Sunday Morning show sometime between 7 and 9 a.m. this Sunday. The shoot tomorrow will consist of three parts: Bob providing a cutting demonstration, an interview with Bob, and finally Todd trying out cutting himself. The focus will be on the rapidly growing sport of cutting, and it's appeal/presence in Minnesota.

Check out Anita's article on CNN Money -- http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/15/smbusiness/rodeo_queen.fsb/index.htm

Ryan also had his share of the limelight with a front page article in the Star by Northstarmedia.net -- go to http://northstarmedia.net/star/STARIssues_files/stm032608-102-26.pdf for page 1 and page 18. Go Ryan!

May 2008 -- The Minnesota Cutting Horse Association descended upon Ogden, Utah and the NCHA Western Nationals with a relatively small contingent, but were hugely competitive!

JP Bell kicked off the club's success by earning a berth in the $3,000 Novice Horse finals riding White Cat Olena owned by Mark Lundeen. Bob Janssen rode Smart Chicaway to a finals entry, then earned Top Ten status with his finals ride. Ryan Lind followed in Bob's footsteps, riding Sunny Rey Solano to a Top Ten finish in an extremely competitive and high-scoring Junior Youth class. South Dakota resident (and MCHA member) Shannon McCoy took reserve champion honors in the Junior Youth.

Kristin Lundeen piloted Honest as Karl to a finals-qualifying run in the 10,000 amatuer. Mark Blackwell did the same on Smart Chicaway in the $2,000 Limited Rider. And finally, Gary Hansen, riding Kit Duals Altismo, rode to reserve champion in the $20,000 Non-Pro. The $20,000 Non-Pro was actually won by Sandra Azinger, SD resident and MCHA member riding Rolladecker. Patti Blackwell, Leigh Gall, Anita Janssen and Mark Lundeen also showed.

Bob Janssen is the new Cutting/Reining/Reined Cow Horse columnist for Horsen Around -- look for his columns starting in the April 2008 edition. View online at http://www.equinemonthly.com/web/ha_home.htm

JPH will be featured in Horse & Family, April 2008.

Bob's recent interview with Don Wick on Horse Sense Radio. http://www.horsesenseradio.com/HTML/archives.cfm

Spring 2008: All is well at JPH, the barn is busy and gearing up for show season. We're fortunate to have a number of outstanding 2-year-old and 3-year-old prospects in training, as well as some exciting show horses. Breeding mares have started to arrive for their dates with Smart Chicaway, and his offspring are doing outstanding in the showpen. Bob has several exciting Chicaway 3-year-olds that he can't wait to show in this fall's futurities.