2012 High Brow Cat Foal Crop Dominates Futurity Field
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True to form, High Brow Cat progeny dominated percentages in the 2015 NCHA World Championship Open Futurity field, with 58% of the 2012 foal crop entered.
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True to form, High Brow Cat progeny dominated percentages in the 2015 NCHA World Championship Open Futurity field, with 58% of the 2012 foal crop entered.
While many of the top Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) competitors have multiple chances throughout their careers to win gold buckles and titles in the events they compete in, there is one award that a competitor has only one shot at: the coveted Resistol Rookie of the Year.
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National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Professional Casey Deary has earned over a Million Dollars in NRHA competition and is justifiably proud and awed by his accomplishment. Deary, known as a devoted family man, has his own cheerleaders in his wife Nicole Deary and their children Wyatt, Joy, Owen and Olivia. Deary, of Weatherford, Texas, earned his first NRHA paycheck on November 4, 2000, in Katy, Texas, at the Saltgrass Steak House Warmup show aboard Crome Marks (Crome Plated Jac x Marks Lee Ann x Marks Alynx), owned by Maureen Underwood. The young horseman earned $82 – a far cry from his most recent paycheck of $161,466 for winning the NRHA Open Futurity Level 4 division riding Shesouttayourleague for owner Curtis Performance Horses LLC! To say Deary had a good November and December is a monumental understatement.
the 2015 event but were not properly nominated. According to the email, “an internal review of the program has revealed that we have incomplete nomination records on a small percentage of the foals that includes six horses that showed at the 2015 Super Stakes.”
On Dec. 16, the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) sent out an email addressed to members titled “NCHA Super Stakes Foal/Stallion program.” Recent rumors about the NCHA Super Stakes program have been circulating concerning horses that competed atJim Bret Campbell, who is the executive director of the NCHA, said that the association is working to correct any issues with the program while being transparent with members.
In 1992, Pete Branch, now an Equi-Stat Elite $3 Million Rider, rode Little Badger Dulce to a second-place finish in the NCHA Futurity Open finals. The pair started the 1993 show season with a 4-Year-Old Open win at the Abilene Spectacular.
The focus of horse sales often falls on the highest sellers. Those high-dollar horses are closely watched in the show pen as people wait to see if the money spent in the sale ring was justified or not. But this year’s National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity Open finals was proof it didn’t take an unlimited bank account to purchase a talented horse.
Many non-pro reiners are always on the lookout for their next National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) Futurity horse.
To understand how any given shanked or curb bit will affect your horse’s response it’s important to understand how to measure the bit http://bit.ly/1Ie0xru and what affect the measurements or, more accurately, the ratios of the measurements may have.
It was announced in early December that the National Reining Breeders Classic (NRBC) would debut a new division in 2016. According to NRBC Secretary-Treasurer Cheryl Magoteaux Cody, the Development Division will begin at the very next NRBC, April 17-24. The $10,000-added NRBC Development Division is for NRBC Classic Open Horses that have not won $2,000 by March 31, 2016.