OpenStride Show Horses

10/09/2026

Reba starts her Congress early tomorrow! Watch for her and Kayla in the Queen's Horsemanship, lucky draw 9!

I am so excited to take on the final day of Queen week tomorrow! Tomorrow we have the horsemanship and the crowning. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to ride the best possible horse for the horsemanship ❤️ perfect Reba! I am so thankful to OpenStride Show Horses for letting me use her for the contest, I am honored!

Proudly Canadian 🇨🇦
Kayla Brickus
2026 Ontario Quarter Horse Association Queen

10/08/2026

Before we head off to Congress and start flooding our feed with those updates, I need to post about our last Ontario show of the season.
We had a great time at the OPHC September Spotacular with great stakes classes with added money along with the all breed classes and APHA classes. Our group had a strong showing bringing home some 💰 as well!

🔦 My Name In Lights & Jenna 🔦
Owned by Liz Nooyen
🥈Reserve Champion Open Hunter Under Saddle Stakes
🥇Junior Hunter Under Saddle
🥈 Performance Geldings

🐎 Just Watch Me Lope & Tina Cleland 🐎
🥈 Novice Amateur Showmanship

With Jenna
🏆 2&Under Halter Stakes
🏆 2&Under Lunge Line

🖨️ Kiss My Fax & Leslee Zavitz 🖨️
🥇 Amateur Walk/Jog Horsemanship
🥈 Amateur Walk/Jog Trail
🥈 Amateur Walk/Jog Pleasure

😎 Made So Cool & Sandra Walters 😎
🥈 Reserve Champion Non Pro Western Pleasure Stakes
🥇 Non Pro All Breed Hunter Under Saddle
🥇 Non Pro All Breed Western Pleasure

With Jenna
🥉 Open Western Pleasure Stakes
Top 5 Sunrise Trail Challenge

👔 Justa Evening Ty & Chloe Moore 👔
Top 5 Non Pro Stakes Horsemanship
🥈Non Pro Stakes Equitation
Top 5 Non Pro Stakes Hunter Under Saddle
Lots more top placings in the APHA classes

🔥 One Tuff Red Head & Mackenzie 🔥
🏆 18&Under Sunrise Trail Challenge
🥈 Non Pro Stakes Horsemanship
🥇 Non Pro All Breed Horsemanship

Thank you again to everyone who has trusted my guidance throughout the year! I can't wait for next season!

On to the Congress posts...

09/28/2026

I'm definitely working on better late than never on this post! We had such a fabulous group of people for this amazing and tiring show. So many making personal bests and showing up for the last OQHA Show of the year. We had long days and the added challenge of a power outage for just shy of 24 hours.

😎 Made so cool & Sandra Walters 😎
Reserve High Point Level 1 Amateur
Reserve High Point Open Horse
🧹Rookie Am Western Pleasure
🧹Level 1 Am Western Pleasure
Top 3 Level 1 Am Horsemanship
Top 3 Rookie Am Horsemanship
Top 3 Level 1 Am HUS
Top 3 Level 1 Am Equitation
Top 3 Am Performance Geldings
Top 5 Level 1 Am Showmanship
Finalist Non Pro Trail Invitational

With Jenna
Win Open Performance Geldings
Circuit Champion Level 3 Western Pleasure
Finalist Open Trail Invitational

💗Made for Lovin & Laurie Reed 💗
Top 5 Rookie Am Showmanship

🎀 Mis Extremely Vested 🎀
With Leah (New Team 🎉)
Top 5 Youth Walk Trot HUS
Top 3 Youth Walk Trot Equitation

With Debbie
Top 10 Walk Jog Pleasure

With Jenna
Top 5 Level 1 trail

🐸 In Front of the Line & Clare Laurent 🐸
Top 3 Select Am Trail
Top 10 select Am Horsemanship
Top 2 Select Am Showmanship

🤖 Helava Lopin Machine & Carrie Vanass 🤖
Top 10 L1 Am Western Pleasure

With Jenna
5th NSBA Green Western Pleasure
Debut in trail with some + maneuver scores

👢 Simple Kinda Cowgirl & Mackenzie Landry 👢
Wins L1 Youth Showmanship

🔥One Tuff Red Head & Mackenzie Landry 🔥
🥈Non Pro Trail Invitational
🥉 Open Trail Invitational
Top 5 Non Pro Provincial Horsemanship

With Kayla Brickus
Top 5 L1 Am Horsemanship

🤓 Mister Wise Guy & Mackenzie Landry 🤓
🥈 Reserve Champion Non Pro Provincial Championship Equitation
Top 3 L1 Yth HUS
Top 3 Yth HUS

💡He Figered it out & Michelle Mason 💡
Top 3 L1 Am Horsemanship

👔 Justa Evening Ty & Chloe Moore 👔
Wins L1 Am Hunter Under Saddle
Win L1 Am Trail
Top 5 L1 Am Horsemanship

💙 Blue Margaritta & Lorraine Sandrelli 💙
Top 5 Select Amateur Showmanship
Win L1 Am Walk Jog Horsemanship
Top 4 L1 Am Walk Jog Trail

🌊 A Certain Crush & Mackenzie Landry 🌊
Win Youth Showmanship

I can't wait to see what next year holds for all these teams! They show up and show out every time and work so hard in between!
I can't thank my team enough for all the help throughout this whole season!

09/01/2026

OQHA Summer Finale here we come! Locked and loaded for a great show!

08/26/2026

POV: Getting ready for the last OQHA Show of the season!

🔥🔥 Summer Finale here we come 🔥🔥

08/11/2026

We had such a wonderful time at the AQHYA World Show again this year! It was a bit of a different year for us as Kenzie brought two horses, thanks to Grandma and Grandpa 😉 Apparently we were going for a theme of Green and Burgundy ribbons this year.

🔥 One Tuff Red Head 🔥
6th L3 13&Under Western Riding
13th L3 13&Under Trail
6th L2 13&Under Western Riding
11th L2 13&Under

🤓 Mister Wise Guy 🤓
6th L2 13&Under Hunter Under Saddle
14th L2 13&Under Hunt Seat Equitation

I couldn't be prouder of how these teams came together for the show.

08/03/2026

Way to go Kenz and Jerry!

07/23/2026

We can't wait to head to OKC for the AQHYA Youth World Show with these two fabulous horses!

❤️ Mackenzie Landry ❤️

🔥One Tuff Red Head
L3 13 & Under Horsemanship
L3 13 & Under Trail
L3 13 & Under Western Riding
L2 13 & Under Horsemanship
L2 13 & Under Trail
L2 13 & Under Western Riding

🤓Mister Wise Guy
L3 13 & Under Equitation
L3 13 & Under Hunter Under Saddle
L2 13 & Under Equitation
L2 13 & Under Hunter Under Saddle

Good luck to everyone competing!

Thank you Mary White for the beautiful photo!

07/06/2026

The weather was beautiful (maybe a little hot) for Area 3s Summerama.  What a great show put on by a great group of people! We had a lot of success and so many learning opportunities. 

💗Made for Lovin & Laurie Reed 💗
🥇Circuit Champion Amateur 2 yr old mares 
Top 3s in Rookie Am Showmanship

🏃Blue Margaritta & Greyson 🏃
🥇Circuit Champion Small fry sms (1,1,1,2)
🥇Circuit Champion Youth Aged Mares 
Reserve Champions Youth Mares 

💙Blue Margaritta & Lorraine Sandrelli 💙
Top 2 Amateur performance Mares 
Top 10s Am select Sms 
Top 10s L1 Am WJ Horsemanship
Top 10s L1 Am WJ Western Pleasure 
Top 2 L1 Am WJ Trail

💙 Blue Margaritta & Allison Reynolds 💙
Top 5 Am Equitation 

✈️ Air Miiles & Allison Reynolds ✈️
Win L1 Am HUS
Debut in L1 Horse Non Pro Equitation 

With Jenna 
Top 5s L1 HUS 

😎 Made so cool & Sandra Walters 😎
🏆 High Point L1 Amateur 
🧹 Rookie Am Western Pleasure 
🧹 L1 Am Western Pleasure 
🥇 Circuit Champion Amateur Performance Geldings 
Win L1 Am Hunter Under Saddle 
Top 3 L1 Am Equitation 
Win L1 Amateur Horsemanship 

With Jenna 
🏆 Reserve High Point Open Horse
🥇Circuit Champion Sr Western Pleasure (1,1,1,2)
🥇Circuit Champion L1 Western Riding 

💡He Figered it out & Michelle Mason 💡
🥈Reserve Circuit Champion L1 Amateur Showmanship
Top 5 L1 Am Trail 

🔥 One Tuff Red Head & Mackenzie Landry 🔥
🏆 Champion Bridle less Trail Challenge
🥇Circuit Champion Youth Trail
🥇Circuit Champion Youth Horsemanship 
🥇Circuit Champion Open Western Riding 

🤓 Mister Wise Guy & Mackenzie Landry 🤓
🥇Circuit Champion Youth Equitation
🥇Circuit Champion L1 Youth Equitation 
🥇Circuit Champion L1 Youth Hunter Under Saddle 

🤠 The Final Bandit & Mackenzie Landry 🤠
Wins L1 Youth Showmanship

Thank you to everyone for all your help and support, and to the Area 3 board on a well run show! One more show before we're off to Oklahoma 🔥

06/21/2026

I'm going with better late than never with this post and I definitely didn't take enough photos! But we had a fabulous time at the OPHC Signs of Summer Show!

🖨️ Kiss my fax & Leslee Zavitz 🖨️
Wins in Am Walk Jog Trail
Win in Am Walk Jog Horsemanship
Win in Am Walk Jog Western Pleasure
Great improvement in Showmanship

💗 Made For Lovin & Laurie Reed 💗
Scores in the 70s in Non Pro Showmanship
First ever riding class!

With Jenna
Champion Kestrel Ridge Walk Jog Horsemanship

🐎Just Watch Me Lope & Tina Cleland 🐎
Personal bests in Showmanship with some solid plus maneuvers

With Jenna
Wins in 2yo lunge line

It was nice to have my parents there for this one so Kenzie got to show Grandma's horse some more!

🤓 Mister Wise Guy 🤓
2, 4 Open All Breed Hunter Under Saddle

We can't wait for our next show to show off more improvements!