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AARON WHEATLEY goes solo. (july 4th 2008)
After spending two years with Waggoner ranch in the US, Australian Trainer Aaron Wheatley will be going out on his own as from the first of August. Aaron will be training out of the Salt Creek Arena in Boyd Texas.
Wheatley, 31, has been working at the Jack and Susan Waggoner Ranch in Bridgeport, Texas, since 2006, when he came to the United States from Australia.
Aaron will be riding some horses for the Waggoners at the NCHA Derby in a couple of weeks then after that he will be on his own. He will be the only trainer based at that facility and will be taking on outside horses.
Wheatley, who was born in Victoria spent a lot of time training with Max McTaggart and according to website allaboutcutting.com said from that experience, he “learned just as much about living and being a respectable person as he did about cutting.” He became a professional cutting horse trainer at the age of 18 and rode Duntay Working Class Man, owned by Gary Braid, to the championship of the Australian NCHA Derby and Gold Cup.
Aaron was a finalist in the Australian NCHA Futurity/Derby and Classic/Challenge every year since 1998. He was inducted into Australian Riders Hall of Fame in 2006 with earnings of over $520,000. Also in 2006, he rode Yugilbar Roc N Roy to the Australian NCHA Futurity Championship and Chickasha Hope to the Derby title, winning over $77,000.
Before coming to the United States to work for the Waggoners, he spent time with Kathy Daughn, who he said is ‘one of the most knowledgeable persons I have spent time with on cutting horses and how to train them.’
Aaron Wheatley has easrned over $310,000 in US NCHA earnings in only two years in the United States.
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