The Non-Pro plus The Open
June 6-14, 2020 Ardmore, OK The Non-Pro plus The Open, $156,500 Added, 405-598-2568
cutting
PCCHA Core Balance Derby & Classic/Challenge
June 5-14, 2020 Las Vegas, NV PCCHA Core Balance Derby & Classic/Challenge, $295,000 Added, 209-727-5779
Polly Hollar Memorial Bluebonnet Stakes
May 1-3, 2020 Brenham, TX Polly Hollar Memorial Bluebonnet Stakes, $14,000 Added, 210-379-0450
Polly Hollar Memorial Bluebonnet Stakes
May 1-3 Brenham, TX Polly Hollar Memorial Bluebonnet Stakes, $14,000 Added, 210-379-0450
Cutting News
Tuffs Junie — Mother of Junie Wood, Woody Be Tuff — Dies
The Western performance horse world has lost another of its great performers and producers. Tuffs Junie, a 31-year-old mare bred by Boyd Summerhays of Sandy, Utah, and owned by Craig Crumpler of Wichita Falls, Texas, was humanely euthanized on Thursday. Crumpler, who purchased “Junie” as a 4-year-old from her breeder, said: “She was the sweetest, best […]
Features
Docs Okie Quixote a Superfly Gent if there ever was one
If anybody had any doubts about Docs Okie Quixote, the National Cutting Horse Futurity Association Futurity champion only months earlier, those were all erased when he followed it up with a convincing triumph at the Super Stakes in 1984. And if that weren’t enough, he won the Derby later in the year to become the […]
CANCELED Kit Kat Sugar NCHA Super Stakes
March 27-April 18, 2020 Fort Worth, TX Kit Kat Sugar NCHA Super Stakes, nchacutting.com
Cutting News
Saying Goodbye to Widows Freckles, a family’s ‘Dream Horse’
Top cutting competitor and sire Widows Freckles has died, those closest to the stallion announced on Tuesday afternoon. The sorrel stallion was 26. “We received the news this morning that our boy Widows Freckles, or as his family knew him, ‘Obi,’ was laid to rest,” Lauren Middleton said through a social media platform. “It is […]
Industry News
16-Year-Old Bred to be a Cutter Instead a Prized Roper
He was after all bred by leading cutting breeders and owners Phil and Mary Ann Rapp of Weatherford, Texas, so when Main Street Boon was born in 2004, he seemed destined to become a champion cutting horse — just like his sire and dam. Instead, though, Main Street Boon (Peptoboonsmal x Playboys Ruby x Freckles […]
Cutting News
Austin Shepard Jammin’ in Jackson, Mississippi
If you’re a betting man, one logical choice to guide one or more horses to a championship title during this year’s National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Eastern Nationals in Jackson, Mississippi, would be Equi-Stat Elite $8 Million Rider Austin Shepard. The Summerdale, Alabama, trainer has won numerous Eastern Nationals titles through the years and this year […]
