Jackie Verkuyl writes...GAYFIELDS CALL THE COPS LOM/AOE (*Sleight of Hand LOM/AOE/OD x Dixie Blue Duchess LOM/AOE) is a 1993 grey stallion, bred by Gail & Arthur Thomson and owned by Jackie Hubert Verkuyl at Goldhills Welsh, where he is the Section B herd sire. Jackie first saw Cops as a two-year-old, on a visit to Gayfields.  That typey colt she saw out the kitchen window was not a mountain pony, but instead an extremely typey Section B, and at his mature height of 13.1 ½ (USEF permanent card) certainly not small.  After a season in Missouri, where he produced Gayfields’ junior stallion, JG Cops And Robbers, Call the Cops came to California!  Cops has been extremely successful in the show ring up and down the west coast and across the country since that time.  In 2000 Cops completed his Individual Legion of Merit, the first Welsh in the west to reach that milestone.  After completing his Individual LOM Cops hit the open Carriage Driving and Combined Driving circuits while his foals carried on for him in the Welsh ring and completed his Sire Legion of Merit in 2005. Six of Cops’ foals had earned over 300 points each in 2005 and that number continues to increase, along with the number of Supreme Championships, Performance Championships and National Championships earned by Cops’ get all across the country. Cops’ foals have his great easy going, easy to train disposition and wonderful Welsh type and movement and continue to excel in the show ring. His sons are proving that not only is Cops a sire of outstanding Welsh ponies, but Cops is a sire of sires. Cops has shown successfully in open driving competition winning against Friesians, Morgans, Hackney horses and ponies, and other Welsh. In 2003 and 2004 Cops was long listed for the US National Pony Driving team in the pairs division with his half-sister Gayfields Honolulu. Cops’ winning personality and stylish performances have also introduced people to the Welsh breed - when one pony owner saw him at an open show, her comment was, "I’m not sure what that is, other than my dream pony!" Then she bought a Welsh pony. In 2006 Cops made his way back into the Welsh show ring where he had a very successful year and completed his lifetime Award of Excellence. Cops continued his success in driving and was Pleasure Driving division champion at every show he attended in 2006. Cops also stepped into the role of Hunter Pony winning numerous championships in the Hunter and Long Stirrup Hunter divisions. Cops won six Supreme Championships in 2006, including the Supreme Champion and Best in Show at the Western National. He is also the USEF Zone 10 Horse of the Year in Pleasure Driving and Hunters. It was quite a year for quite a pony!