Oklahoma City, OK – December 7, 2008 – Historic events keep taking place at the 2008 NRHA Futurity & Adequan^® North American Affiliate Championship Show, and tonight was no different. NRHA Professional, Shawn Flarida, unofficially became NRHA’s first Three Million Dollar Rider, and Wimpys Little Step unofficially became an NRHA Million Dollar Sire.

 

Flarida, of Springfield, Ohio, became the second rider in history to break the $2 Million mark in 2006 at the FEI World Reining Masters in Denver, Colorado. Bill Horn was the first rider to earn in excess of $1 Million and Tim McQuay is the only other rider to cross the $2 Million earnings level. A mere twelve other riders have crossed the $1 Million earnings plateau in addition to Flarida. Flarida has been showing at NRHA-approved events since 1981 competing at nearly every major Reining event in the world. In 2002, Flarida rode Wimpys Little Step to the NRHA Open Futurity Championship.

 

Wimpys Little Step, owned by Mark Schols of Aubrey, Texas, is by NRHA Million Dollar Sire Nu Chex To Cash and out of Leolita Step. In the Reining arena, Wimpys Little Step earned $185,760 including first in the 2002 NRHA Open Futurity Championship and 2002 All American Quarter Horse Congress Reining Futurity. His offspring include Wimpys Little Chic ($304,670 LTE), RC Fancy ($149,135 LTE) and Wimpys Little Buddy ($130,450 LTE).