It was a slam-dunk on Saturday for Phil Rapp and Dont Look Twice in the Augusta Futurity with 228 points – the second highest score in the history of the event’s 4-year-old division. Laney Rey Too, ridden by Guy Woods for EE Ranches, placed second with 220.
Rapp is the all-time champion of the 29-year-old event with nine open (four) and non-pro (five) championship wins. Tag Rice and Faron Hightower are tied with the most open wins (five each). Rice also holds the record high score of 230.5, marked on Chiquita Pistol in the 2003 Augusta Futurity.
Dont Look Twice, owned by Waco Bend Ranch, Fort Worth, TX, is by High Brow Cat out of Tapt Twice, winner of over $280,000 under Rapp and his wife, Mary Ann. Tapt Twice is out of Tap O Lena, the winner of $451,000, who carried Phil Rapp for six major wins, including the 1994 Augusta Non-Pro Futurity.
Rapp also placed sixth in the Augusta Futurity finals with 215.5 on his own horse, My Other Toys A Car, and finished with 180 on Little Red Bet, owned by Gale Force Quarter Horses. Earlier in the week, he placed third in the Augusta Classic riding Sportin Aristocrat, owned by Jack and Susan Waggoner.