Show Horses

"Star" was born on our farm and then sold as a 2 yr old.  She was shown extensively in Wisconsin in both open and AQHA shows, and then was sold to a show home in Sioux Falls, SD before we bought her back to Kolousek Farms at the age of 11 to add to our show horses.
Since her return home to Kolousek Farms, she is now shown by Ella Kolousek starting in 2021.

4-H State Reserve Champion: Senior Trail out of 50+ entries

4-H State Grand Champion: Jr. Trail; Reserve Champion Jr. Horsemanship; Top 5 finishes in Jr. Huntseat, Jr. English Showmanship and Jr. Western Showmanship.

AQHA Youth Grand Champion Mare - 1st Place

AQHA L1 Youth Trail - 1st Place - AQHA Point earner

AQHA Rk / L1 Youth placings in multiple Youth classes

AAHA - Jr. All-Around Award; Several year end high point class awards

4-H State Grand Champion: Jr. Horsemanship, Top 5 finishes in Jr. Huntseat and Ranch Riding

Jerauld County 4-H Jr. High Point Award

AQHA Youth Grand Champion Mare at a show in August; Point earner in Youth performance classes

AAHA - Jr. All-Around awards and several year end high point class awards

4-H State Res. Champion - Jr. Horsemanship and other Top 5 finishes at the State 4-H Horse Show in Jr. English Pleasure and Huntseat

AQHA Youth Grand Champion Mare at a show in August; Point earner in Youth performance classes

We bought "Diesel" as green broke project in 2020 and she started her show career in 2021.  My daughter, Abby has taken the reins and has done a lot of the work to bring "Diesel" into the placings at several levels.

With Abby: 4-H State Horse Show: Reserve Champion Senior Hunter Over Fences

With Abby: 4-H State Horse Show: Top 5 finish in Sr. Trail (over 50 entries) and Top 5 finish in Sr. Ranch Riding (over 50 entries).

With Amber: AQHA Amt Halter Mares - 1st Place (8/20/23)

AQHA Rk Amt Trail: 1st Place

AQHA L1 Amt Trail: 1st Place

AQHA Rk Amt Ranch Riding: 2nd Place

AQHA L1 Amt Ranch Riding: 3rd Place

4-H State Horse Show: 3rd place Sr. Hunter Over Fences, 5th place (out of 50 entries) in Sr. Ranch Riding.

AQHA Rk Youth Trail 1st Place - AQHA point earner

AQHA - several other Youth Rk / L1 placings in August 2022 show in multipule classes.

Jerauld County 4-H All-Around Champion and several Top class awards at County

Jerauld County 4-H All-Around Champion and several Top class awards at County.

We bought "Duke" a resell project horse when he was a yearling.  After breaking him and starting his show career, we decided he needed to stay!  :)  He has succeeded in several styles of riding and with different riders.  He loves to goof off and keep us on our toes (like most geldings do!), but he knows his job and gets it done right.  

Unfortunately, Duke suffered a bad pastern break somehow in the pasture and had to be euthanized on March 1, 2025.  He was only 10 years old.  He is buried at the farm.

With Ella: 4-H State Horse Show: 3rd Place - Senior Hunter Over Fences

With Ella: 4-H State Horse Show: Grand Champion Jr Hunter Over Fences (repeat!)

With Ella: 4-H State Horse Show: Grand Champion Jr Hunter Over Fences

With Amber: AAHA Sr. All-Around Award; several year end top Class awards including overall

Grand Champion 3 yr old and over Halter Gelding

With Ella - State 4-H Top 5 Finish in Jr. Hunter Over Fences

(Limited showing in 2021 because of Amber's cancer treatments.)

With Ella: AAHA Jr. Jr. All-Around winner and several top class awards

State 4-H Horse Show - several Top 5 Finishes in Beginner classes

With Amber - AAHA Sr. All-Around Award, several year end top class awards.

We added Rosie when we were looking for another kids horse and she did not disappoint!  She was a solid horse for any job - horse shows from showmanship to jumping to games; trail riding and elk hunting in the Black Hills and Colorado.

Rosie passed away in 2024 of old age and is buried at the farm.

Rosie and Ella were the Jr. Jr. Reserve All-Around winners in 2017 in the AAHA curcuit.

Rosie and Ella were 5th place Jr. Hunter Over Fences at the SD State Horse Show.

When Amber was 14 yrs old, she started "Renegade" as a 2 yrs old.  They started winning classes that year and never looked back.  Renegade won countless awards throughout the years for Amber, Isaac, Jacob, Abby and Ella.  He was the "go-to" horse for everyone in our family until he retired.  He later passed away in 2020 at the age of 28.  Renegade is buried at the farm.

Numerous All-Around awards with Amber in 4-H and AAHA shows.

Also won each of my 4 kids their first belt buckle in 4-H Showmanship and 4-H All-Around awards.

Isaac - his first year in 4-H, he was Res. Champion Jr. Western Showmanship (50+ entries).