The Road to the Horse is an annual colt-starting competition held at the Alltech Arena in the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.[1] Three trainers are invited to choose a colt from a remuda of untouched three-year old quarter horses provided by the American Quarter Horse Association. They then have a specified amount of time over three days to gently get a saddle and tack on the colt and ride it. Road to the Horse is owned and produced by Tootie Bland.[2] [3] In the past the competition has been held at Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas[4] and Tennessee Miller Coliseum in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.[5]
| Trainer | Horse | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align = center | 2003 | align = center | align = center | Hancock Sug | |||
| align = center | 2005 | align = center | Clinton Anderson | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2006 | align = center | Stacy Westfall | align = center | Doctor T Tari | ||
| align = center | 2007 | align = center | Chris Cox (horse trainer) | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2008 | align = center | Chris Cox | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2009 | align = center | Richard Winters (horse trainer) | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2010 | align = center | align = center | ||||
| align = center | 2011 | align = center | Chris Cox | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2012 | align = center | Team Australia-Guy McLean & Dan James (horse trainer) | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2013 | align = center | Guy McLean | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2014 | align = center | align = center | Speedy Cream | |||
| align = center | 2015 | align = center | Chris Cox | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2016 | align = center | Nick Dowers | align = center | |||
| align = center | 2017 | align = center | Vicki Wilson (New Zealand) | align = center | Boon River Lad 'Kentucky' | ||
| align = center | 2018 | align = center | Vicki Wilson (New Zealand) | align = center | Wyoming Pick | Crowns Lad |