Lainie Whitmire, an Oklahoma Native who is no stranger to the equine industry as a breeder, owner, and professional. She and her husband, Ray Whitmire, have both dedicated their lives to their horses, program, and multiple facets of the business. The Whitmire Ranch brand represents some of the race horse industries highest achieving mares, Heartswideopen and Whistle Stop Cafe, both mares whose careers tout in excess of $4,208,123.00. They are dedicated to raising offspring out of these exceptional mares bred to the most influential and elite stallions offered to continue to promote the legacy of the Whitmire Ranch brand and support the industry she loves so dearly. Along with the focus on race horses, Lainie owns the World Cutting Horse Association, she began with a vision of supporting the "grass roots" competitors and offering competition to multiple divisions of competitor and equine athlete. The association hosts multiple cuttings throughout the year, with a year end finals paying out over $250,000.00 annually. Lainie's dedication to our future through the youth divisions and continued commitment to providing opportunity to the equine community she is involved in. As an avid professional in the barrel horse industry, Lainie has competed her entire life. She and Ray own stallions standing to the public including Barue, a black stallion sired by PYC Paint Your Wagon out of First Prize Leesa, graded stakes earner of over $54,000.00, whose first foals hit the ground in 2021. Lainie's main mount, Bullseye Bullion, is also part of their diverse and elite roster. Bullseye Bullion is a sorrel stallion sired by Bully Bullion out of Top Shawne, multiple title holder and earner of over $60,000.00, with offspring competing and showing tremendous promise as futurity and derby contenders. In the summer of 2020, they purchased JL Dash Ta Heaven, touted as one of the most influential sires of all time. Sired by Dash Ta Fame and out of Dynas Plain Special, his accolades as a multiple NFR competitor, champion as a futurity, derby, and pro rodeo horse, including lifetime earnings in excess of recorded $208,000.00, his career as a sire has taken the barrel horse industry by storm producing champions and competitors with earnings over $5,000,000.00 on a very limited foal crop. In 2020 The Whitmire's joined forces with Rick and Jade Ford of Cinder Lakes Ranch to launch The Breeders Challenge, a barrel horse incentive program for enrolled stallions and their offspring. In two years, the program has seen exponential growth paying out in excess of $4,200,000+ to owners, nominators, and stallion owners. Offering some of the industry's largest purses and payouts, they travel the US to qualifiers with their finale being hosted in Fort Worth at the historic Will Rogers Coliseum. The continued commitment to excellence, passion for the equine industry, and the willingness to see opportunity and go for it have been a lifelong trend of Lainie's. Those who know her can confirm that she is an iconic piece of our industry in so many ways, with a heart for the horse.