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Originally from northern California, Avila was born into the equine world. Avila and his wife, Dana, currently manage Avila Training Stables from California, a business that includes sales and breeding. Bob Avila at the Arizona National Horse Show in Scottsdale, Arizona. “I have enjoyed the highest of highs and experienced the lowest of lows ...
Born in November 1951, Robert Charles “Bob” Avila grew up with American Quarter Horses in Redwood City, where his dad was a trainer and rodeo cowboy and his mother worked at a western store while giving riding lessons to fund her horse show habit. Bob left home after high school to make his own way, but soon found that way would be with horses.
Lifetime Earnings. NRHA $381,339.94; NRCHA $1,113,022.09; Accomplishments and Awards. American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame; NRCHA Hall Of Fame; NRCHA Million Dollar Rider
Bob Avila, Scottsdale, Arizona. 7,542 likes · 17 talking about this. Bob Avila Quarter Horses Specializing in Reining and Working Cow Horses. Bob also has the Bob Avila
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Currently, Bob resides in Temecula, CA with his wife Dana. It is from there that he oversees his Avila Training Stables operation that includes breeding and sales. Bob is renowned as being the "trainer’s" trainer. He has several young apprentices working for him at all times, learning and studying his remarkable horse training abilities and ...
Bob’s parents, Don (who was a rodeo cowboy and trainer) and Pat Avila, were devoted to horses and showing. Bob was born in Half Moon Bay, California and grew up in the heart of the West Coast show circuit. Bob’s idols growing up included Don Dodge, Tony Amaral Sr., Harry Rose Sr., Clyde Kennedy and Jimmy Williams. “They were at all the ...
Hall of Fame Inductee. Bob Avila was born into a horse family. Riding everything from his father’s rope horses to his mother’s pleasure horses, he learned to appreciate many different aspects of horsemanship. Bob showed his first horse at the age of five and from that moment on, he was hooked on showing. At age 20, Bob went to work for ...
