Tim McQuay is the leading All Time money earner in the National Reining Horse Association, with over $2 million dollars in winnings to his credit.
He has won every major National Reining Horse Association sanctioned event at least once, including the NRHA Futurity, the National Reining Breeders Classic, the NRHA Derby, and the NRHA Superstakes. Tim qualified at least two horses for the NRHA Futurity finals each year from 1987 to 2000, and in ’94, ’95, and ’96 he brought back all three. In 2000, he was inducted into the National Reining Horse Association Hall of Fame. In 2001, even after being sidelined mid-year with a life-threatening illness, he was still an NRHA Futurity Finalist.
In 2002, Tim tied for the win of the NRHA Derby, finishing as the Reserve Champion of that event on Kid Whiz (owned by Bryan J. Fix). Then, a month later, he was a Gold Medalist on Okie Dun Did It (owned by Monica Hicks) for Team USA that won the Bayer/USET CRIO Nations Cup in Gladstone, New Jersey.
In 2003, Tim McQuay won the $50,000 first place check at the National Reining Horse Association Derby on RR Star, owned by Lundin Farm and the American Quarter Horse Association Sr. Reining World Championship on Custom Red Berry, owned by Stone Canyon Ranch.
McQuay is a 5-time All American Quarter Horse Congress Futurity Champion, and a 3-time Southwest Reining Horse Association Futurity Champion. His most recent wins of those events came in 2000, when he won the Congress Futurity on Einstein, owned by Adelchi Pontisso of Italy and the SWRHA Futurity on Toodies Big Gun, owned by George Shifrin of Colorado. Tim is also a 2-time AQHA World Champion and multiple National Reining Horse Association World and Reserve World Champion.
With a worldwide clientele, Tim frequently travels abroad where he presents reining clinics and consults with horse owners and professionals. He has won the Italian Open Derby and along with his daughter, Mandy, he won the ’93 World Cup, representing the United States. He has qualified multiple horses for the US Equestrian Team Reining Championship Finals.
Originally from Minnesota, Tim McQuay, his wife, Colleen and daughter Mandy moved to Tioga, Texas in 1989 and since then, McQuay Stables has made the north Texas town a focal point for the equine world.
For years, McQuay Stables has been known as the home of NRHA All Time Leading Sire and Hall of Fame Inductee, Hollywood Dun It. The unforgettable dun stallion that literally re-wrote the breeding history for the National Reining Horse Association passed away in early 2005, but even after his death, visitors still come to McQuay Stables to visit his grave.
Fittingly, the legendary facility continues to present an exemplary list of stallions at stud, including NRHA Hall of Fame Inductee Gunner, purchased in 2005 by Tim & Colleen McQuay. Gunner was the NRHA Futurity Reserve Champion in 1996, then tied for Reserve at the National Reining Breeders Classic in 1998. The charismatic stallion with the signature floppy ears went on to even greater success when he won the 2001 USET Reining Championship. From the preliminaries through the finals, he was unbeaten and untied, marking a 229, 233, 226.5, and a 222.
Gunner stands alongside NRHA Futurity and Derby Champion RR Star, NRHA Futurity Reserve Champion Dun It With A Twist, NRHA Futurity Non Pro Reserve Champion Dun Gotta Gun, Two-time NRBC Open Champion Reminic N Dun It, and NRHA Saddlesmith Champion Footworks Finest.
McQuay Stables proudly represents Pro Equine, ElectoBraid Fence, Evergreen Mills, Inc., Direct Action Company, Won Pad, and Xtreme Design Products.
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