Jay Starnes piloted The Lopin Machine to a victory in the Congress Masters Western Pleasure tonight while My Invitations R Hot nabbed the Masters Hunter Under Saddle with Trisha Yamber in the irons.

The Hunter Under Saddle class for unshown 2-year-olds went first as nine entries competed for a total purse of $45,000. Seaside Farm LP of Celina, Texas, owns My Invitations R Hot, a chestnut gelding sired by These Irons Are Hot and out of Thats My Invitation (by Invitation Only). He earns $25,000 for the win. Reserve champions were Kizz My Irons, owned by LT and Joanne Taylor and shown by Dawn Baker, earning $8,000. Allison Clark rode Good Escape for owner Carl Yamber to a third place finish, winning $4,000 and Beth Case and Nuthin Better To Do took home $2,000 for fourth.

He’s such a cool horse,” Yamber said after the victory. “He has a funny personality. He’s like my dog Mork, in horse form. Nothing rattles him. Even during the lineup he was looking at Allison’s horse and you could almost see him thinking ‘what’s wrong with you, settle down.’”

Yamber, of Roberta, Georgia, said she got “Carson” in in late December or early January and knew right away he had the talent to be a Masters contender.

“My only concern was how growth he was,” Yamber said. “I told Carl that I needed to go slow with this one.”

Yamber, who won the same event in 2012 aboard This Is Personal, also sired by These Irons Are Hot and out of Personal Invite (also by Invitation Only) said: “That’s obviously a great cross.”

“They are alike in that neither cares about anything but this horse gets mad faster but then gets over it quicker,” she explained.

During an intermission between the Masters Hunter Under Saddle and Western Pleasure events a special ceremony was held for AQHA sire Invitation Only, who on Oct. 17, surpassed Zippo Pine Bar for the All Time Leading Sire of Points Earned with with 77,062, a title Zippo Pine Bar has held since 1996. Invitation Only was on hand for the ceremony.

Afterwards eleven maiden 2-year-olds competed for a total payout of $77,500 in the Masters Western Pleasure. This marks back-to-back victories for both Starnes, of Summerton, South Carolina and The Lopin Machine’s owners, Rawlings Enterprises, of Australia. The Lopin Machine is sired by A Good Machine and out of 2005 NSBA Horse of the Year, Hot Lopin Louise. First place paid $50,000. Reserve champion, Fired Up Potential, owned by the Bauer-Gooding Partnership and ridden by Gil Galyean, earned $9,350. Third place was RR Magical Moonlite, owned by Jamie Watson and ridden by Brian Cox, collecting $7425. Randy Wilson rode Ona Good Cowboy to a fourth place finish, earning $5,500 for owners Jan Pittman and Susan Scott. Lazy Holla Dayz, owned by Shawn Johnson and shown by Ty Hornick placed fifth earning $2,750. Certainly Kissed and Karen Hornick rounded out the money earners in the class taking home $2,475.