National Snaffle Bit Association (NSBA) Quarter Million Dollar Club Rider Kenny Lakins says Made Like No Other (Scotty) is like a fine wine – he just keeps getting better with age.

 “He’s a very special horse,” he said. “You don’t get to have those in your program very often. He has excellent conformation. He’s extremely intelligent and he’s beautiful. He’s a real natural.”

Lakins has been riding the 2019 sorrel stallion by Machine Made out of Dontskipzipsversion since early in his 2-year-old year. He was bred and raised by Lakins’ long time customers Mike and Lisa Wilkes, of Dublin, Georgia.

 “He was such a natural mover from the first ride,” Kenny said. “He had so much cadence and rhythm. You could tell he was going to be a really good jogger.”

That’s something Mike and Lisa noticed when Scotty was just a baby.

 “I remember one day I was away at a horse show and Mike called,” Lisa explained. “I could hear the excitement in his voice and could almost see his smile while he was talking. He had been at the barn checking on things and watching the yearlings. He said ‘Lisa, Scotty is special. He has so much natural talent.’  I remember smiling because I had already thought the same thing but Mike had finally got to see Scotty loping around himself.   If you know Mike you know he is brutally honest and has a good eye for a talented horse. He doesn’t sugar coat things. So when he said that it was exciting.”

For the last 15 years Ohio trainers Kenny and Ashley Lakins have ridden horses for Mike and Lisa and the Wilkes have had horses in their program consistently for the past decade so when it came time for Scotty to get started under saddle, the trainer choice was easy.

“Sending Scotty to Kenny to train was a no brainer,” Lisa said. “Kenny is among the best in the industry when it comes to training stallions.  We have won (American Quarter Horse Association) AQHA and NSBA World and Congress Championships with Kenny and Ashley prior to Scotty.”

When it came time to make a decision where Scotty would make his debut under saddle, Kenny had a very definitive plan – the Masters 2-Year-Old Maiden Western Pleasure at the 2021 Quarter Horse Congress.

 “I received a call from Kenny Lakins after Scotty had been in training a few months,” Lisa recalled. “He said ‘girl this horse is going to train up early he will be ready for the Congress. He has so much natural talent.’  I thought there are those words again ‘natural talent.’ Kenny said ‘this is the stallion Mike has been wanting. He is great legged and great  minded, smart and beautiful.’”

Kenny’s gamble paid off when Scotty was named the unanimous winner of the class, earning $25,000 in his very first show.

“He showed just like I thought he would,” Kenny recalled. “I kept his program just like all the other shows I had taken him to throughout the year. He was very easy to prepare. I rode him that day longed him a bit then got his ready to show.”

But that was just the beginning. After sitting out his entire 3-year-old year because of illness, Scotty returned to the show pen in 2023 with a bang. He earned World Championship titles in Junior Western Pleasure at the NSBA World Show in August and at the AQHA World Show in November. He also captured a Congress Championship that year in Junior Western Pleasure.

 “He really has not changed much since the first time I showed him,” Kenny said. “He is a great show horse. He is very focused and just great to be around and ride. I think he really likes to show off in the pen. Kind of likes all the attention to be on him.”

What sets Scotty apart from others is his ability to excel at all the gears without much effort. 

“He has a very laid back attitude,” he said. “He is well made. He’s pretty behind with a freaky front leg at the lope that finishes his stride. He jogs with a lot of rhythm and really does not cover much ground.” 

In 2024 Scotty headed to the breeding shed for the first time.

“We talked about what to do with Scotty after he won both the Junior Western Pleasure at the Congress and at the AQHA  World Show,” Lisa explained. “I know a lot of people would have retired him after winning those tiles but we just could not see him standing around doing nothing during the off breeding season.”

But Scotty really likes showing. He is healthy and easy to prepare so his show career continues.

And Lisa got her chance to show Scotty for the first time at the 2025 Quarter Horse Congress, placing third in the Amateur Select Western Pleasure with 30 entries.

 “You don’t have to run his wheels off to get him ready to show,” Lisa said. “Kenny will continue to show him and I will show him this year in the Amateur Select Western Pleasure. We will let Scotty continue to tell us what his future holds as far as showing is concerned.”  

For now, he is back in the breeding shed, standing the 2026 season at Richland Ranch in Auburn, Illinois.

 “Scotty has two breeding seasons behind him now,” Lisa said. “We are extremely excited about the foals we have on the ground and the foals we have seen of outside mare owners.   We are repeatedly hearing how good-minded and good legged his foals are.” 

Kenny and Ashley Lakins are also excited about his future as a sire.

“We love the foals we have seen by him,” Ashley said. “They seem to look a lot like him and move a lot like him. The people that have them rave about their quiet nature and great movement.”

Kenny said all that has to happen is for Scotty to throw his own trainability and kind nature.

“I would hope he throws his movement to them as well and his conformation would be another great aspect of his babies.”

The Wilkes have a couple Scotty foals out of their two-time AQHA World Champion mare, VS Code Me Lucky. They say they are both short coupled like Scotty and great legged.  

“We crossed him on our Rock mare and that filly is also great legged and short coupled,” Lisa said. “We have those crosses coming again this year, along with a couple Lopin Machine bred mares.  I also bred  him to my 17-hand black Hubba mare.  I’m very excited to see that cross.” 

But as thrilled as they are with their own Scotty foals, the Wilkes say the thing that really pleases them is that they have had numerous mare owners bred back to Scotty after seeing the foals they had out of their own mares.

 “That says a lot about what they think about his foals,” Lisa said. “I know as a breeder, breeding to a stallion that hasn’t proven himself as a producer yet can be a gamble.  You just never know if the stallion will be a producer.  So far what we are seeing out of Scotty’s foals, the oldest being yearlings we are very excited about.” 

Made Like No Other is six panel negative and his 2026 stud fee is $3,250 or $2,750 for repeat breeders. Shipped semen is available until May 1 and frozen semen is available after that. World/Congress Champion mares receive a discount of $750 and there is a $250 discount for multiple mares.

Scotty’s foals are eligible for the NSBA BCF and SIF, Super Sires, Iowa Futurity, MQHA Futurity and the Southern Belle.

For additional information or a breeding contract contact stallion manager Karen Boxell Alderman by calling (217) 825-6456 or emailing richlandranch@gmail.com. You can also visit his website at www.richalndranch.com. 

“Mike and I would like to thank all the mare owners who believed in Scotty like we do and  have bred to him,”Lisa said. “We are beyond excited to see his foals in the show pen.  I know showing a horse you raise and winning on that horse is a wonderful feeling. I can only imagine how nervous and proud Mike and I will be when Scotty’s foals begin their show careers.”