Tonight with her friends and family cheering in the Oklahoma City stands the team once again took a victory lap after besting a field of 15 finalists in the class of 25 total entries.

Jessica Baird and Cool Movin Lady were Reserve Champions in the class. Jenna Dempze, of Rudolph, Wisconsin, and Rewind And Repeat were third and Halle Saywell, of Kirtland, Ohio, and A Gifted Invitation placed fourth. Judges for this year’s class were: Pierre Briere, Stephanie Lynn, Bill Coffman, John Lawrence and Milton Alderman.

With the win tonight, Darcy and Vino mark six straight years of AQHA World Championship titles together. In addition to tonight’s victory they won the Amateur Western Pleasure at the World Championship Show in 2011 and again last year. As youth contenders they also won World Championship titles in Western Pleasure in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

But even before that A Certain Vino was a superstar in the Western Pleasure arena. Bred by Tim and Lou Petty of Ocala, Florida, the 2003 black gelding by Certain Potential and out of Dotevita was the 2005 Reichert Celebration $250,000 Equine Sports Medicine 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure Challenge Champion. A few months later, Vino and Lou Petty won the 2-Year-Old Non-Pro Western Pleasure at the All American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus, Ohio. He closed out his 2-year-old year with a Reserve in Western Pleasure at the AQHA World Championship Show, with Stanley Ryan aboard.

That year, Vino was sold to the Reeve family of Garden City, Kansas. He has remained with them ever since and has had the same Western Pleasure trainers, Ty and Karen Hornick of Jamestown, Ohio, the whole time. Vino is ridden in Open Western Pleasure events exclusively by Karen Hornick,

Although Darcy Reeve remembers Vino being the talk of the 2005 AQHA World Show when her family first purchased him, she never in her wildest dreams imagined him boosting them into AQHA history.

“Vino is a one-of-a-kind horse,” she said. “He loves the hype and wants to win more than anyone. If any horse deserves the name ‘Vino’ it is he because he just seems to get better every year and you can always win him over with peppermints.”

In all, Vino has compiled 12 World Championships since 2007 in Open, Amateur and Youth, never being beaten at the event since his 2-year-old year. Winning countless Congress Championships, High Point and NSBA World titles, Vino is also the highest NSBA money earner of all-time having won over $192,000 in NSBA earnings. He has logged over $56,000 in AQHA World Show earnings and over $17,000 in AQHA Incentive fund earnings and was named the 2008 NSBA Horse of the Year.

A Certain Vino will compete in the Senior Western Pleasure preliminaries on Friday, Nov. 22 with the finals scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23.

A full schedule of events, results, and winning run results are available at www.aqha.com/Showing/World-Show.aspx