Puffed up like a Penguin š§ The deep dive revisionist show record of KVS
<EDIT: Re: her placings claims. I double checked the NSBA placings for each Western Riding Class for her 2013, 2014, 2015 years. Note that the AQHA classes are also NSBA classes, judged simultaneously. Outcome: Still just 1 top 10 in 2014, vs. her āevery yearā claim.
Her 2016 NSBA Novice Amateur Western Riding Class, she did place 9th. For her NSBA Amateur Eq class, she did place 3rd overallā¦..thank you to the commenter who pulled that up! Still, she never mentioned her placings were NSBA at Congress. Thatās like a sidecar to the actual AQHA placings, and she never made that clear NSBA vs just Congress/AQHA. She still gets a Pinocchio for overinflating her placings in her youth career šÆ. END EDIT>
Screenshots are from her Meet Kalvin FB/Tick Tock videos, and also her recent AQHA podcast.
If you want to learn more about her show history vs her words, read onā¦ā¦.
What she said:
Sounds like she was well accomplished, leads people to believeā¦.. no trainer involvement? She did it all herself 100%? Especially getting him going in Western Riding? ā¦ā¦ well, not quite.
First off, the YouTube description of Kalvin, from before she purchased him. Hmmm. He was already trained for and ready to show WR, he just hadnāt in it yet. He was with a really accomplished trainer at the time. So, thereās thatā¦..
More words:
Next, what about doing all that maintenance at home all by herself? Not so fast there eitherā¦... She had an extremely accomplished trainer, who specializes in people keeping their horses tuned up at home, vs at the trainerās barn. So, an omission In her Meet Kalvin to make the Kulties believe she was self sufficient / no trainer at all? Maybe. She did talk about this Trainer during the AQHA podcastā¦ā¦..but, one thing was for the Kultie circle and the other she couldnāt act like she did it all herself With the AQHA.
Article introducing herself and Kalvin to the āShow Worldā from July 2013ā¦she bought Kalvin 3 months priorā¦so April 2013 ish. Well well worth the read, beginning to end.
https://gohorseshow.com/2013/07/katheryn-van-slyke-and-zippin-on-top-geared-up-for-world-show/
A snippet about her trainerās accomplishments:
Letās get back to the show record itself. More words from the Meet Kalvin video.
Every year a top ten!!! š¤© Wow! For any of you outside of high level breed shows, making the top 10 is a huge accomplishment. Placings are Champion, Reserve Champion, then 3rd thru 10, or sometimes 15ā¦.but when speaking, NO ONE says ātop 15ā. It always Champ, Reserve Champ and āTop 10ā. Her youth years with Kalvin were 2013, 2014, and 2015. So 3 Top 10ās in a row in Western Riding At Congress, stellar accomplishment. Or, was it?
Next up, what she considers to be her top accomplishment of all, so much so, she called it out in both the Meet Kalvin video AND proclaimed it during the AQHA podcast, regarding her first Amateur year in 2016, after pulling Kalvin from brief retirement.
<EDIT, NEW Info: She did place 3rd overall, under the NSBA Am Hit Equitation class standings & 9th NSBA Am Nov Western Riding, below are the AQHA placings, screenshot of NSBA classes are in the comments END EDIT>. Anyway back to that 3rd place equitation finish at Congress - she proclaims that as her best finish ever at Congress. Well, it was until it wasnātā¦.might have been the best, but it was not 3rd. In fact, I find this to be the most egregious of all. 3rd is right after Champ/Res Champā¦..so, here she is claiming someone elseās high finish as her own when she was 3 more places backā¦ā¦.and about that 9th she cited in Novice Amateur Western Ridingā¦ā¦yeah, nope.
And then we move onto 2017 NSBA World Show. She talked about that on the AQHA pod. 7th in Green Horsemanship? I couldnāt find any evidence of thatā¦.not in Novice or anywhere.
As for that 10th place / top 10 in Western Riding? Eekā¦ā¦I think a pattern has developed. Not once could I find any instance where she says she placed lower than she actually did, almost always higherā¦ā¦kinda feels like an exaggeration like every mare needs intervention. This concludes the KVS deep dive show record, words vs. the receipts.
