Link Webb Explained

Link Webb
Birth Name:Lincoln Eugene Webb
Occupation:Horse trainer
Discipline:Performance Tennessee Walking Horse
Birth Date:1974
Major Wins:World Grand Championship in 2008
Lifetime Achievements:Trainer of the Year in 2005
Horses:Santana's El Nino

Lincoln "Link" Webb (born 1974) is a Tennessee Walking Horse trainer. He and the black stallion Santana's El Nino won the breed's World Grand Championship in 2008.

Life and career

Webb was born Lincoln Eugene Webb in 1974, but nicknamed Link. He owns and operates Link Webb Stables in Marshall County, Tennessee,[1] and was named Trainer of the Year by the Walking Horse Trainers' Association in 2005.[2] He trained the black Tennessee Walking Horse stallion Santana's El Nino. In 2007, Webb and El Nino entered the World Grand Championship in the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration and placed fourth. A short time later, they won the stake class in the International World Championship Walking Horse Show in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.[3] Returning to the Celebration in 2008, they placed second in the aged stallion class and then entered the World Grand Championship. El Nino was not the favorite horse to win, being described by newspaper reporters as a "dark horse", but he and Webb placed first out of the eight competing horses.[4]

Link Webb is married to his wife Rae Ellen. They have a son, Lane Webb.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UPDATED: Link Webb hospitalized. 1 January 2017.
  2. Web site: Trainer of the Year - Walking Horse Trainers Association. 1 January 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161026105218/http://walkinghorsetrainers.com/national-champions/prior-champions/trainer-of-the-year.html. 26 October 2016.
  3. Web site: Webb claims International for second year. 1 January 2017.
  4. Web site: Santana's El NiƱo named World Grand Champion. 1 January 2017.
  5. Web site: Webb, champion El Nino begin fall tour. 1 January 2017.