Page Bowman and Athena Mad Man • photo by Stacy PigottTeen rider Page Bowman and Athena Mad Man finished as Augusta Futurity Classic Amateur Champions Thursday in Augusta, Ga., with a 221 to earn $3,000 - one year after her mother won the same title with the exact same score. Last year, Libby and her mare Rich N Snazzy (Cats Merada x Oh Cay Shez Snazzy x Oh Cay Quixote) won the event to earn $1,600.
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Tama Boon and Jason McClure • photo by Stacy PigottJason McClure and Tama Boon, the only horse his wife won’t let him sell, showed one of the reasons while topping Thursday’s Augusta Futurity Champions Challenge Non-Pro with a 219 to earn $5,600.
Category Five and Steve Oehlhof • photo by Stacy PigottCatagory Five, a 6-year-old cutting horse with a somewhat stormy early career, won Thursday’s Augusta Futurity Champions Challenge Open to earn $5,500 with trainer Steve Oehlhof. According to Oehlhof, the horse is still apparently gathering strength.
Big Daddys CD & Austin Shepard • Hart Photos“I had a good day,” Summerdale, Ala., cutter Austin Shepard said Tuesday night after advancing four horses to the Augusta Futurity Open finals, to be held Saturday night. Shepard swept the top three spots with horses sired by High Brow CD, the stallion he rode to win the 2008 National Cutting Horse Association Futurity Open. The fourth horse, sired by One Time Pepto, notched the first round’s seventh-best score.
Howard E Hughes & Todd Quirk • Hart PhotosTodd Quirk and horses he and his wife own placed first, second and seventh in the first go of the Augusta Futurity Classic Non-Pro to claim three of 14 spots in the finals, which will be held Friday, Jan. 24. 
Nurse Charles and Desmond Robbins • Hart PhotosA relative newcomer to cutting, Desmond Robbins still has a hard time with the competitive aspect of the sport. Of course he wants to win every time he goes out. Then again, he doesn’t like watching his friends lose. Monday night, he walked out of the James Brown Arena at the Augusta Futurity, in Augusta, Ga., dealing with the paradox.
Robbins claimed his first major title when he and Nurse Charles rung up a score of 217 to win the $35,000 Non-Pro Any Age by 2.5 points. With his first Augusta Futurity title, Robbins of Goldsboro, N.C. earned $2,600.
Halos Rey & Joey Varnadore • Hart PhotosHe’s two weeks from his 15th birthday, but Joey Varnadore had plenty to celebrate Monday, Jan. 20. The Appling, Ga., cutter made up for last year in a big way. Varnadore and Halos Rey marked a 222 to win the Augusta Futurity $50,000 Amateur Any Age finals by four points at James Brown Arena.
Held Dec. 7, 2013
48 horses consigned
$1,806,100 gross for a $37,627 average
38 sold (79%), $1,574,900 net, $41,445 average and $19,250 median.
Held Dec. 6, 2013
68 horses consigned
$571,200 gross for a $8,400 average
63 sold (93%), $522,000 net, $8,286 average and $7,200 median.
