Hendricks Reining Horses, Inc. is owned and operated by head trainer Dell Hendricks and his wife Terri. Dell is a NRHA Futurity Champion and Reserve Champion; 5-Time NRBC Champion; 2-Time NRHA Derby Reserve Champion; Multiple AQHA World Champion and Reserve World Champion; NRHA Reserve Open World Champion; World Equestrian Games (WEG) Team USA Gold Medalist; USET/ CRIO Team USA Gold Medalist; USET Silver Medalist; Congress Futurity Champion; NRHA Million Dollar Rider. He is ranked by NRHA as one of the all time leading money earners with winnings in excess of $1,294,616.

Dell has a talented assistant trainer working with him as well, Nick Valentine.

Besides his administrative accomplishments with Rancho Oso Rio, Dell also blazed an unmatched rise to the top ranks of the reining world. He competed in his first National Reining Horse Association Futurity in 1993, and came back just one year later, to finish third in that event on Taris Little Vintage owned by Warren. In 1995, Dell rode Taris Little Vintage to win the American Quarter Horse Association Junior Reining World Championship - a title he again claimed in 2001, on Broadmoor, owned by Roberto Cuoghi of Italy.

Dell is one of the select group of riders who earned the honor of competing in the first United States Equestrian Team Festival of Champion in 1999. On the way to qualifying, he rode Hangten Peppy to the highest qualifying score of the year in USET competition. He’s been a qualifier for every USET reining since then, and for the past two years, Dell has been a member of the Nations Cup team that represents the United States in International Reining competition, earning Gold and Silver medals, stateside and abroad.In 2002, along with  TEAM USA members Tim McQuay, Craig Johnson and Shawn Flarida, Dell rode Dunnit In Hollywood  to win the Gold in the CRIO Nations Cup at the USET Festival of Champion.  Hendricks rode Dunnit In Hollywood to the individual gold medal as well, posting a score of 221 in the first round and 223.5 in the second to sweep the field.

It would be a more than successful career - without his performance at the National Reining Breeders Classic - but it’s there that Hendricks has rewritten the record books. He and Mr Boomerjac won the 1998 National Reining Breeders Classic Open Championship. That’s a win he repeated in 2002 - riding Starlights Wrangler, owned by Sally Broten, becoming the only rider to win more than one NRBC Open Championship. He broke his own record the next year, when he rode Reminic N Dunit, owned by Tim & Colleen McQuay and Dave & Bonnie Silva, to the NRBC Open championship, the repeated the title on the same horse in 2004!

And the next year, 2005, he shattered all the record books when he won the NRBC $60,000 Championship again, this time on Adair Reiners’ Hit The Lights! That was cause for celebration but there was more excitement at the ‘05 NRBC when Dell’s winnings in the first go-round pushed him past the million dollar mark for NRHA earnings, and made him one of the elite riders to ever earn million dollar status!

Known for his friendliness and encouragement to others, Hendricks is also an in-demand clinician and has conducted clinics around the world - in Australia, Italy, Canada and throughout the United States.  A long-time board member, currently he was the President of the National Reining Horse Association for 2006. Also in 2006, Dell qualified for the prestigous World Equestrian Games in Germany, where he helped Team USA win the Gold Medal.

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