#5 • PSU Only The Best

Part of Penn State University 24th Annual QH Sale (timed auction by Professional Horse Services)

High bid $12,700.00

Status: Sold

[AQHA/APHA] 15.1 hands - 2024 Brown Gelding (One N Only  x Injoy The Ride) (Pennsylvania) Proudly Sponsored by: Centre Boot Co. Each horse was born and raised at Penn State University. They are a part of the Equine Science Program and are taught basic ground handling skills such as grooming, leading, yielding to pressure, tying, picking up feet, and standing for the vet and farrier. They have been exposed to bathing, clipping, and loading/unloading on a stock trailer as well as noises associated with football games and fireworks. During their time in this program, each horse has lived outside in mixed groups as well as stalled individually at night. The horses learn to round pen, longe, and are green broke to walk, jog, and lope under saddle. At the time of sale, most horses will have had approximately 20 rides. They are worked with by a variety of students with various skill levels. All Penn State horses are microchipped for identification purposes. PSU Only The Best, ""Freckles"", is a 2024 brown gelding by One N Only and out of Injoy The Ride. Freckles is a fabulous mover, flat about the knee and drives deeply from his hock. Freckles would excel in a western pleasure program, however he is versatile and could do well in an all-around environment.  Injoy The Ride has a history of producing successful western pleasure horses. These offspring include, PSU Only The Best's half brother is PSU The Man In Black, a stallion stood by the Penn State Breeding Program.  ""Kash"" is a three year old who is currently in his first breeding season. Kash's own show record includes making the finals in the 2-Year-Old Maiden Open Western NBSA Futurity at the AQHA Congress in 2025. Another of her progeny, PSU The Man In Black's full sister Hot Dayum, was 2020 bay mare who went on to win the 2024 Virginia Maiden Open Western Pleasure class, and took third in the L1 Open Western Pleasure at the NSBA World Champion that same year. One N Only is a 2007 brown stallion by Invitation Only and out of WereTalkinRadical. One N Only has excelled in the discipline of Western Pleasure, placing in the top five in the 2-Year-Old Western Pleasure class at the 2009 AQHA World Show. Additionally, he was the 2009 Reichert Celebration Reserve Champion. One N Only is a proven sire, producing NSBA, APHA, and PHBA World Champions, as well as a Congress Champion and a Canadian National Champion. His grandsire, Invitation Only was inducted into the NSBA Hall of Fame in 2008 and is the #1 AQHA All-Time Leading Sire of ROM Earners, the AQHA All-Time Leading Sire of Point Earners, the All-Time Leading Sire of Money Earners, the All-Time Leading Sire of Western Pleasure Earnings, and the All-Time Leading Sire of NSBA Money Earnings. Invitation Only has sired a total of 210 World Champions, Congress Champions, and Reserve Champions. His damsire is RL Best of Sudden, a 2004 Reichert Celebration Futurity Western Pleasure Challenge Champion, who was awarded the All-Time AQHA and NSBA Leading Sire of Money Earned and Points Awarded in Western All Around Events. RL Best of Sudden has sired 607 money earners and 657 AQHA points earners, with 23 progenies becoming AQHA World Champions, while 34 more are AQHA Reserve World Champions. Engagements: Enrolled in NSBA BCF and SIF.  Genetic test results: Sire- 5 Panel N/N, Dam- 4 Panel N/N, HERDA Carrier Go to Documents tab for Disclosures and Ratings.