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RUSTLER WINNER
Scott Ford’s $50 raffle ticket to support AjPHA and the Tennessee Paint Horse Club got him
a New Holland utility vehicle. By ToNyA RATliFF-GARRiSoN
Scott Ford was a little surprised when a vehicle that had
been behind him for the last seven miles followed him
into the driveway of his Clarksville, Tennessee, home.
Ford was returning from the New Holland dealership where
he had picked up his new Rustler Utility Vehicle.
“I had gone to the New Holland dealership in town to pick
up my Rustler, and was bringing it home
on Highway 48. This guy who was going
the opposite direction turned his car around
and followed me all the way home,” Ford
said. “He told me it was the first time he’d seen one of the
Rustlers and he wanted to check it out because he had been
wanting one.”
So had Ford, but he never thought he’d get one for just $50!
Last June, Helena Hattendorf of the Tennessee Paint Horse
Club sold Ford the winning ticket as part of the 2010 AjPHA
Youth Rustler Raffle.
“My teenage daughter, Callie, shows as a Youth and I
bought it to support the club and AjPHA. I never in a million
years thought I was going to win because I never win anything,”
he said.
But that all changed when Ford received a call from Callie
while he and his wife were on a scuba diving vacation in
Cozumel, Mexico.
“She called me up shouting, ‘We won! We won!’ I had no
idea what she was talking about. I had
completely forgotten about buying the
ticket,” he said.
With its 23-horsepower, gas engine,
the all-wheel drive Rustler Model 125 is the perfect vehicle
for Ford to use on his small-acreage farm, taking care of his
small cattle herd and his daughter’s Paint Horses.
“It’s just perfect!” he said. “It’s higher off the ground than
the John Deere Gator and is more powerful. Not only will I
use it here but it will also be perfect for me during hunting
season.”
And Ford added that if anyone would like to stop by his
place to check it out, they are more than welcome to.
“We won! We won!”
24 Summer 2011 • PAINT HORSE CONNECTION
Fifteen-year-old Callie Ford was the one to inform her father,
Scott, that he had won a New Holland Rustler from the ticket
he purchased in the 2010 AjPHA youth Rustler Raffle.
ToNyA RATliFF-GARRiSoN