Cancan Reyvolution & Kelle Earnheart

Earnheart described Cancan Reyvolution (Dual Rey x Cancan Kitty x High Brow Cat) as one of the best horses she’s ever ridden before and after she sold the standout gelding.

“He’s a great horse, but I had the opportunity to sell him and he’s going to a good home. I wish the new owner, Lica Pinkston, good luck with him,” Earnheart said.

Lica and her husband, John Pinkston, traveled to Fort Worth to view horses and saw Cancan Revolution in the preliminary rounds at July’s Summer Spectacular. They watched the finals on the webcast at their home in Alice, Texas.

“We were looking for a coming 5-year-old for me to show. We were still talking back and forth and shopping and we hadn’t completely made up our minds that he was the horse we were going to buy,” Lica Pinkston said. “We didn’t find anything else that was as good as him that was for sale, so we bought him. I like good Dual Rey’s. They’re cowy, they’re smart and I can see that in this horse. He has a really good stop on him.”

Prior to the purchase, Pinkston did not know that Cancan Reyvolution was in the hunt for Non-Pro Horse of the Year with 56 points, leading No. 2 Teles Bout This Cat’s 46 points. She primarily competes in the Amateur and Limited Non Pro at the big limited-aged events, but does enter non-pro classes on the weekends.

“I had no idea that he was up there. I had not even looked at that,” Pinkston said. “I may show him in a few Non-Pro’s to see if he can hold on to the title.”

Cancan Reyvolution’s first outing under new will be at next week’s Derby Open at the West Texas Futurity with current trainer Clint Allen, Weatherford, Texas. Then he will transfer to Pinkston’s trainer, Kathy Daughn, in Gonzales, Texas.

“I will show him through his 5- and 6-year-old years and probably keep him for a weekend horse after that,” Pinkston said. “I don’t know how much longer I’ll be doing this. I’m 59. I might be doing it for 10 years or I might only do it for five.”

Second in the Non-Pro Horse of the Year race heading into August was Cody Hedlund, Weatherford, Texas’ mare Teles Bout This Cat (WR This Cats Smart x Teles Lies x Lenas Telesis). Over the next few months, they’ll try to close the gap. Teles BoutThis Cat and Hedlund were NCHA Super Stakes Non-Pro Champions in April. They tied for seventh in the Derby Non-Pro at the Summer Spectacular.

“I’m going to go to every cutting I can and see where it goes,” Hedlund said.