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Congratulations to 2-time World Champion Bob Lines

Bob's first win was in the Amateur Performance Halter Mares Class.

Photons Classic CD and Bob Lines of Indiantown, Florida, earned the first ever AQHA World Championship in amateur performance halter mares.

The 2001 gray mare, by Photon out of Cool Diversion by Diversified, competed in amateur heeling preliminaries and then turned around to place 10th in the amateur heading finals.

“Every one of those (Photon) mares is just awesome,” Bob said. “We use them on the ranch doing work all the time. They’re easy to get along with and they don’t ever give you any trouble.”

He continued, “She’s a great mare and it would be hard to part with her. I’d like to breed her this year, so we’ll probably do that.”

Raised and trained by Jay Holmes, Bob said Photons Classic CD is a hard worker.

“She just tries all the time for you. If we’re riding pairs, or in the rope pen, she’s the same every day.”

Bob said the performance halter class is a lot of work. But he is looking forward to showing his other Photon horse in performance halter geldings on November 9.

“We have a gelding coming tomorrow that’s also a Photon. The gelding is actually a little better than her I think,” he said.

Photons All Around is a 1997 gray gelding out of Paloma Ina by Skippy Crew.

Bob looked at his mare again and said, “This is a total shock to me. I didn’t plan this even a little bit. I thought I’d get out there and get me maybe a fifth or sixth and be happy.”

He continued, “To be at the front end of this is just shocking. It is truly something.”

 

 

Bob's second win was in the Amateur Performance Halter Geldings Class

"It’s hard to believe that lightning could strike twice in the same spot,” said Bob Lines of Indiantown, Florida.

He said that immediately after winning the first ever amateur performance halter geldings world championship with his team roping gelding, Photons All Round, on November 9.

But the “twice” refers to his win in the amateur performance halter mares with his team roping mare, Photons Classic CD, on November 8.

“It’s hard to believe, but I know they’re good horses,” he said.

Bob actually showed in the first performance halter classes offered in the country on January 1 at the Florida Quarter Horse Association Gulf Coast Circuit in Tampa. When Bob saw the new class listed, he thought he’d try the mare in it because she was so pretty. But it was his daughter, Sandra, who said he ought to show the gelding, too.

“We knew the mare was pretty good, and my daughter, Sandra, said, ‘Dad, you ought to really consider taking that gelding over there,’” Bob said. “So, I ponied them both over there and tied one up to the rail while we showed one. We didn’t have much help at the Gold Coast.”

And now that good suggestion has resulted in a world championship for the gelding the family calls “Brother.”

Bob is president of the Florida Quarter Horse Association and he and his wife, Jan, are well-known at roping events across the state. Their children grew up showing AQHYA and still compete: Son, Bobby, is a roper, and daughter, Sandra, shows over fences.

Brother is Bobby’s rodeo horse and also works on the Lines’ ranch. By the late stallion Photon and out of Paloma Ina by Skippa Crew, Brother was bred by the Triple J Ranch and Jim Miller of Sarasota, Florida.

The horse is a multiple World Show qualifier in heading and heeling and has open Superiors in both. He was also the 2007 Region 10 Experience champion in open heading and the 2006 Region 10 Experience champion in open heading and reserve in open heeling.

Bob couldn’t be more proud of his horses, both the gelding and the mare.

 

 

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