| Lucien Laurin | |
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| Occupation | Trainer |
| Significant horses | |
| Boonie Tunes, Deltas Color, Desire Rey, Lenas Star War, Mr Playin Stylish, Oh Cay n Short, Peptoroansmal, Third Cutting, | |
Boyd Rice is a professional cutting and reined cow horse trainer and has amassed earnings in excess of $3.8 million[1] in the Western performance horse industry.
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Rice rode Nesterote to his first National Cutting Horse Association major event open finals at the 1995 Bonanza Cutting. In 2001, Rice partnered with Can You Handle It to win the Memphis Futurity, his first major NCHA event championship. Boyd became a perennial finalist at NCHA and National Reined Cow Horse Association major events. He earned his first NCHA Open Futurity finals slot in 2002 riding Meradas Rockalena. The following year he finished seventh in the Futurity on Mighty Joe Merada.
Rice branched out from his cutting horse roots the same year when he entered the World’s Greatest Horseman contest. At the 2002 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity, Rice rode his own Paint gelding, Deltas Color, to place sixth in the Open and third in the Limited Open.
By 2005, Rice’s success in the cutting horse pen solidified even more and he was becoming a force to recon with at NRCHA major events as well. That year, Rice was the Millionheir Cutting Open Champion on MH Bodees Starlena, the NCHA Open World Champion riding Bobs Hickory Rio and he claimed the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open Reserve and Intermediate Open Championships on Playin Attraction. His earnings during that single year topped $676,000.
Boyd won the 2007 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open Championship on Oh Cay N Short. In 2008, he rode Peptos Stylish Sue to the NCHA Summer Spectacular Championship. Picka Patcha Pepto and Rice claimed the 2009 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open Reserve Championship. With Third Cutting Rice claimed both the 2009 and 2010 NCHA Derby and NCHA Super Stakes Championships.
2010 NRCH 5k novice horse derby winner. 2011 NRCHA Circle Y Ranch Derby Winner
“Paint” ended up sixth in the Open and third in the Limited Open at the event, and the horse went on to earn $57,738 in cow horse and cutting competition with Boyd and Tarin Rice.
Snaffle Bit Futurity finalist in 2009, Sagebrush Derby and Open Hackamore open champion in 2011,AQHA World Show qualifier in November 2011 in the Junior Working Cowhorse
2010 NCHA Futurity Semi-Finalist, 2011 The Non-Pro plus The Open, Open Derby go-round winner and finalist, 2011 NCHA Summer Cutting Spectacular Open Gelding Champion, Open Limited Finalist(4th), and Open Semi-finalist.
2007 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion.
Reserve Champion Hackamore Horse in Pueblo, Colorado
2009 NCHA Open Super Stakes Champion, 2009 NCHA Summer Spectacular Champion, 2009 Equi-Stat #3 Leading Open Money-earner, 2010 AQHA Reserve World Champion, 2010 PCCHA Open Classic Champion, 2010 Calgary Stampede Open Classic Reserve Champion, Reserve Champion, 2010 NCHA Super Stakes Champion, 2010 NCHA Summer Spectacular Champion, NCHA Hall of Fame, 2011 Arbuckle Open Classic Reserve Champion, and 2011 Bonanza Open Classic Champion.
Boyd is married to Halee and together they have three children - Tatum, Tarin, & Trea.