Pictured Martini and Christa Baldwin.

The Tom Powers Futurity, now in its 38^th year got started today with great weather, great competition and great prizes.

Stall rentals this year are about the same as last year, according to founder Tom Powers. The event is one of the largest and longest-running futurities in the world. A pre-futurity was featured on Sunday and Monday. It was a mandatory no bling event where only work tack and plain attire were allowed.

Tuesday was an off day and official futurity classes started today with Brett Clark, Buddy Fisher, Wayne Holt and Mike Hawkins officiating.

One of the biggest classes of the day was the 3-Year-Old Novice Horse Hunter Under Saddle Champion with 14 competing. When the judges’ cards were recorded Al Wayz On Your Mind, took top honors with Katy Jo Zuidema in the irons. The 2014 bay gelding, by Allocate Your Assets and out of Your Arts Desire, is owned by Sarah Nimigan, of Paris, Ontario, Canada. Reserve in the class was ReAllocate, owned by Courtney Suzanne Brockmueller and shown by Nancy Sue Ryan.

Giorgia Medows, of Cuba, Missouri rode her new horse, It’s a Pretty Thing, to a win in the 10-entry 3-Year-Old Novice Horse Novice Rider Western Pleasure Champion. The 2014 brown mare, by It’s a Southern Thing and out of Pine Ventures, recently won the Southern Oaks $1,000 Novice Horse Western Pleasure at the Little Futurity in Raleigh, North Carolina, earlier this month and the 3-Year-Old & Over Novice Horse Western Pleasure at the Madness in Wilmington,Ohio in May. Reserve in the class was Mouse N Around and Samantha Schinness.

Other Class winners today included:

Jenna. Dempze and Rewind And Repeat

Non-Pro Color Longe Line (five shown): Champion: Pictured Martini, owned and shown by Trisha Johnson; Reserve Champion: Custom Made Copy owned and shown by Deborah Beckwith

Open Color Longe Line (eight shown): Champion: Pictured Martini owned by Trisha Johnson and shown by Christa Baldwin; Reserve Champion: Sheez Sleepy Too owned by Phillip and Sharlene Tietsort and shown by Alan Wood.

There was a three-way tie for the championship title in the nine-entry Novice Horse Novice Rider Hunter Under Saddle Maturity between Handy Monn and Emily Lloyd, Fighting Off Sleep and Peyton Baxter and No Tail Gaiting and Alyssa Beardsley.

Novice Horse Novice Rider Western Pleasure Maturity Champion (10 shown): Champion, Pass Code and Allison Kish. There was a tie for Reserve between Batt In The Knight with Melvin Yoser and I’m Just A Hottie with Dillon Vaughn.

Non-Pro Color Western Pleasure Champion (eight shown): Champion, Slot Machine and Bill Cox. Reserve Champion, Fleets Imagination and Andrea Foss.

2-Year-Old Open Color Western Pleasure Champion (five shown): Nobody To Blame and Pat Heeley; Reserve Champion, Machine In Gold and Mitch Adkins.

Non-Pro Western Pleasure Maturity Champion (12 shown): Rewind And Repeat and Jenna Dempze. Reserve Champion, Lexus Made Lady and Abi Tuiasosopo. Intermediate Champion, Invite Only The Best and Sydnie Ochs.

3-Year-Old Limited Open Western Pleasure (17 shown): Champion: KM Custom Made Best, owned by Masterson Farms and shown by Kaitlin LeBlanc; Reserve Champion, Cherrie Bomb owned by Carli Armenta and shown by Kelby Hutchinson.