Tim McQuay has been a record-setter in the National Reining Horse Association for the past two decades. He was the first rider to ever earn over $2 Million in reining competition.

He has won every major National Reining Horse Association sanctioned event at least once, including the NRHA Futurity, the National Reining Breeders Classc, 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, ’96 and ‘05, 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.

In 2005, there was more good news. Tim finished the NRHA Futurity with a top five finish on Great King Pine, owned by Guenter Bosner of Niceville, Florida and his ‘05 Futurity Finals earnings were nearly $80,000 on his three horses!

And in 2006, the NRHA’s most successful rider has made history again, qualifying as one of Team USA to compete in the World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany! There, he rode Mister Nicadual, owned by Jerry Kimmel, to team gold and individual silver medals.

McQuay is a 5-time All American Quarter Horse Congress Futurity Champion, and a 3-time Southwest Reining Horse Association Futurity 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 and he’s still making history - becoming the reining industry’s only $5 million sire in earlly 2007.

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 Reserve Champion Dun It With A Twist, NRHA Futurity Non Pro Reserve Champion Dun Gotta Gun, and Two-time NRBC Open Champion Reminic N Dun It, and Mister Nicadual.

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