Jay Starnes and Zip By Machine win the Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure.

For the second year in a row, a horse bred and raised by Ray Burkhart of Knoxville, Tennessee, walked away with the big check at the Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure Slot Class held at the Virginia Classic Quarter Horse Circuit in Lexington, Virginia.

Jay Starnes rode Zip By Machine, a 2010 bay stallion by A Good Machine and out of Zip Zipa Rageous to a win in this year’s event, earning a paycheck for $15,000. Last year Jay’s wife, Kristy, won the same class aboard Zippn Hot Machine, a 2009 sorrel mare by A Good Machine out of Shes A Deuce Coupe.

Full results of the Hylton Maiden 3-Year-Old & Over Western Pleasure Slot are

1. Zip By Machine shown by Jay Starnes, owned by Ray Burkhart – $15,000

2. Radical Moon shown by Jamie Pait, owned by Garry Dale Mease – $10,000

3. Sudden Rumors shown by Shane Pope, owned by Jane Kimmel- $7,192

4. The Bourne Legacy shown by Patrick Heeley, owned by Linda Berwick – $3,596

5/6. Chip In Along shown by Jeff Long, owned by Karen Farello – $1,618

5/6. Hez Certainly Flashy shown by Kristy Starnes, owned by Eric Turner- $1,618

7. A Wish Right Now shown by Mark Katafiaz, owned by Stanley & Susan Scott

8. Too Spicy To Sleep shown by Kenny Lakins, owned by  Gail Torsell

9. Sanfrancisco Goodbar shown by Jason English, owned by Andrea Caldwell

10. The Roan Bone shown by Paul Thurston, owned by Jeff Jones

11. Essentially Good shown by Donnie Recchuiti, owned by Holly Hannewyk

12. Macsbestofthebest shown by Alan Fisher, owned by Jamie Townsend

13. Why Not Zbest shown by Cole Baker, owned by Gorman & Alice Barger

14. Why Would That Be shown by Bobbie Cooper, owned by Fritz Leeman

At the conclusion of the Hylton Novice class the Virginia Quarter Horse Youth Association announced the winners of its “Pie In The Face Contest.” For a $5 donation to the youth, anyone in attendance could register a vote for their favorite (or not so favorite) person to receive a pie in the face. Votes were accumulated throughout the show circuit and the person or people with the highest number of votes were “honored” with a pie in the face. Jay Starnes, the class winner, was one such lucky victim. His client, Gavin Rawlings of Australia, did the honors.