LOIS Skuthorpe returned to Tamworth with even fonder memories when Bank On The Duck won this week’s National Cutting Horse Association’s Senior Cutting Horse title.
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Lois (nee Kayser) was an equine star when she lived in Tamworth, winning the 2004 Sportsperson of the Year and the Australian Quarter Horse Association Barrel Racing Horse of the Year in 2003 with Willow Park Crockett, or Davey as he was more affectionately known.
Lois worked at the old East West Airlines as well as Tamair and then CASA and now lives in Orange where she is the senior manager of an IPN medical clinic.
She and retired Werris Creek doctor, Michael Geurin, own Bank On The Duck.
Wongarbon’s (near Dubbo) Scott Johnston trains and rode the 10-year-old bay stallion this week, scoring a brilliant 148 in his final.
It was a big week for Scott and his family.
Johnston, 45, is a former world champion saddle bronc rider who retired from the US rodeo scene 15 years ago and bought a training property at Balimore.
His 18-year-old daughter, Sarah, won this week’s Senior Youth title at the AELEC while son, Jack, 19, daughters Hanna, 15, and Lauren, 9, are all involved in one way or another.
Matriarch Jane is the glue that holds the Johnston family together.
For Lois Skuthorpe the winning return to Tamworth was nostalgic.
She hopes a few old friends and acquaintances will share her joy in the AELEC.
“In spite of his win he’s for sale,” she said of Bank On The Duck.
“I have a number of young horses I want to concentrate on and prepare for Futurity (NCHA) events.”
While she excelled on the barrel racing scene she also had success in the US on the North American Rodeo Commission circuit, making the finals in Denver twice.
She also rides her cutting horse gelding, Red Roy, in local cutting events.
