SVC Delight of Jet Star and Bo Smith

2002 TWHBEA Adult Supreme Versatility Champion

One of the newest TWHBEA Adult Supreme Versatility Champions (SVC) is DELIGHT OF JET STAR.  She is 20 years old.  She is the daughter of JET STAR’S DELIGHT, 1990 SVC, and half-sister to JET STAR’S MEMORY, 1995 SVC.  Before achieving her Supreme Versatility Champion status at the Texas Spring Classic in Nacogdoches on March 9, 2002, she had achieved her TWHBEA Youth Superior Championship with Bo Smith in November of 1989.  She and Bo are the first same horse/same rider team to achieve both a Youth Superior Championship and now the Adult Supreme Versatility Championship.  Almost all of her SVC points were attained with Bo Smith as her rider and her dear friend.  She had some adult division versatility points earned in her earlier years.

When Bo graduated from high school and went off to college, Delight assumed she was free and finished.  Ha!  This was a wrong assumption, because almost two years ago, I needed another horse in the reining class at a show (Rockwall, May 20, 2000) to help my gray horse get more points for his SVC.  I asked Bo if he’d like to ride her rather than my doing it.  He said yes, so I entered them in Reining and Western Riding, the two divisions in which I still needed points.  Delight had not been ridden in two years and had not shown since 1989.  She was fatter than fat, being out on luscious spring grass.  When we got to the show, Bo asked if I had entered him in anything else.  I told him that I had not.  I knew what he was thinking – he wanted to go in Poles and Barrels.  I quickly had a change-of-heart and entered them in Poles and Barrels.  Though terribly out of shape, Delight still managed to win both speed events classes against some seasoned and in-shape competitors.  The adrenalin rush that Bo and I got from those two classes was enough to convince us that we should try to go for her Supreme Versatility Championship. 

It was a real joy for a proud mother to watch her now-grown son and his “old graying mare” compete in all the events.  She proved to us that she still had what it takes.  We completed our quest for the coveted SVC title less than two years from those electrifying moments in Rockwall.