1. She must have produced a foal that was either a Champion or
Reserve Champion in any MN Fall Fest class.
That foal must have gone on to win a national Top Ten or
higher at Canadian or U.S. Nationals.
2. Or, the mare must have been either a Champion or Reserve Champion
herself in any MN Fall Fest class and then
produced a foal that went on to win a National Top Ten or
higher at Canadian or U.S. Nationals.
3. Or, the mare must have been either a Champion or Reserve Champion
herself in any MN Fall Fest class
and then produced a foal that was Champion or
Reserve Champion in any MN Fall Fest class.

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2007 HONOREES:

MAHARANI is an Eternety daughter, out of a *GG Samir daughter,
out of an *Aramus daughter. She represents 4 generations of
Hermann Blaser's breeding program.
She has never been off the farm until coming to this horse show.
Maharani is in foal to MPA Giovanni for a 2008 foal!
She has only produced five foals; the following four have been shown:

H Chevago by Padrons Psyche, owned by Savannah Morris
* Fall Festival Champion Hunter Pleasure Jr. Horse
* Fall Festival Top Five Hunter Pleasure 17 & under
* Numerous Regional Championships in Hunter Pleasure 17 & under
* National Top Ten Hunter Pleasure JTR

LH Odessa by Odyssey SC, owned by Jerad & Christi Cooper
* Regional Reserve Champion

LH Gina Lola Bridgetta by MPA Giovanni, owned by Hermann Blaser
* 3 time Regional Champion at age 2
* Fall Festival Top Ten Medallion Filly

LH Machio by MPA Giovanni, owned by Hermann Blaser
* Unanimous Buckeye Jr. Champion
* Competing in Medallion Yearling colts at this show

TF QUEEN AHEARTS,
owned by Les and Diane Van Dyke

TF Queen Ahearts, born on Valentines Day, 1995, is proudly owned by
Les and Diane Van Dyke
of Chandler, Minnesota. “Queenie” as she is affectionately
called, is by Khouros, out of the mare Klassic,
an Aristocrat Mare who is one of the breed’s
leading living dams of champions. Klassic
was honoured as a MN Broodmare Elite in 2005.

Queen Ahearts began her illustrious show career,
right here at the Minnesota Fall Festival,
winning champion honors in her 2 year old filly class.
She went on the
following year to win the Scottsdale Grand Champion Mare award,
Ohio Buckeye Grand Champion,
and ended the year as a National Champion!

Queenie has gone on the produce her own line of champions, including
Queen Adiamonds, by Magnum Psyche, who qualified
her for this award by placing Reserve
Champion in the Fall Fest
Yearling Filly Class, winning the two year old Fall Fest class and
going on to a national Top Ten as a Futurity Filly.
Queenie has also produced Ahearts Afire LD,
by Baske Afire, a Regional Top Ten winner and
Queens Legacy, by Legacy of Fame, also a Regional Top Ten winner.
Her 2006 colt by First Cyte is showing this year in the Auction Colts class.

In 1989 a bay filly was born on the southern Minnesota
farm of Ronald and Linda Calhoon, named No Small Affair, this bay
filly would face a life of brief glory, much struggle, moving from
pasture to pasture in obscurity and finally a life time home
with Larry and Jody Hoffman.

No Small Affair is by the *Bask son Elect and out of a
Bak daughter who was out of a predominately
Crabbet bred mare. She is the golden cross, *Bask and Crabbet.
In 1990, with Hesten Park, No Small Affair was named Region VI AHA
Breeders Sweepstakes Champion Filly,
but by the end of her yearling year she had faced almost fatal
pneumonia and colic surgery.
As a result of her treatments, No Small Affair was unable to
fulfill a promising show career
with her appearance at Region VI being the only show she ever attended.
She then disappeared into pastures in Southern Minnesota.

Larry and Jody Hoffman were reunited with
No Small Affair in 1999.
Remembering her quality and
wonderful disposition they felt she would
make an outstanding broodmare.
In 2000 she was bred to the MN Breeders stallion
Desert Heat VF. She foaled a bay colt in
April of 2001. In the 2002 Colt Auction Class,
this first foal named Voyageurs,
placed third. Then, in his first return trip to
the Fall Festival show, he was named champion in the 2006 Junior
Western Pleasure class. With her first foal,
No Small Affair achieved what few mares have done by producing
an Auction class money winner
and then a champion performance horse
in the MN Breeders program.
In fact, her first foal became the first recipient of
the added money available to those
foals that resulted from auction breedings and then become
champions under saddle at the MN Breeders Fall Festival.

No Small Affair has more then fulfilled the faith that the Hoffman’s
had in her. Her own show career was cut short but No
Small Affair found another calling, broodmare.
The Hoffman’s are honored to have had her included with the
other outstanding broodmares named MN Breeders Elite Broodmares.