“I'm a horse show guy, mostly,” said A Kyle Vinyard, a Chief Warrant Officer in the U.S. Army, who just became the AQHA Level 2 Amateur Heeling World Champion. “I've got a pretty nice heel horse and I like to show him.”
Showing is a hobby that Vinyard, of Fountain, Colorado, has maintained since his childhood.
“I will compete in any class,” he said. “If I think I can compete in it, I'll show in it. My mom, she showed horses and, my entire life, that's what we did. I've had to show pleasure horses; I've had to show English horses; and now that I pay and fund everything on my own, I like showing
