2004 was the first complete race season Horgen competed in; winning an AMA District 23 State Hare Scramble Championship was an excellent finish for a first year racer. And in motocross Horgen earned an 8th place year end finish in the Quad 250B class and 6th in Open B. In 2005 Horgen followed up his '04 results with an AMA District 23 Motocross 4th place year end finish in the Quad 250A ranks. In 2006 Horgen is upgrading his race program. No longer will he be racing a stock YFZ but instead a full MX prepared YFZ with long travel a-arms and Custom Axis shocks tuned by George Hodkinson at GPS Racing. For 2006 Horgen is aiming for the ATVA 265A GNC Motocross National Championship title. Check back next year to see if his year end results continue to improve.

Horgen's interest in ATV racing grew from reading ATV Sport magazine. While researching ATV's to use around his family's cabin, Horgen's outlook on quad riding changed. In the Reader's Questions section, a reader wrote into ATV Sport asking how to get a better start when racing friends. The response from the editor was to "mount an ATV with a hefty engine and manual clutch, hold the throttle half open, and when the race starts let the clutch go and hammer on the throttle!" Days later Horgen switched his purchase from two matching Polaris Sportsmans to a Yamaha Grizzly 660 and a Yamaha Raptor 660. One year later Horgen entered his first ATV race… By year three he was racing both machines.

Horgen's passion for the sport has not changed since the purchase of his ATVs. In the summer of 2002 Horgen explored most of Minnesota's public trail systems, managing to ride on 75% of the trails. 2003 marked the start of Horgen's Motocross training program. Over that season he worked hard to hit an Open Practice at every track raced on Minnesota's AMA District 23 circuit. By 2004 Horgen was ready to race! He had practiced for two years, attended Digger Doug Gust's Riding School, and prepped a brand new Yamaha YFZ450 for battle.