Dual Smart Kitty, already leading money earner from the crop of 2010 with her $200,000 championship win in the NCHA Futurity, increased her lead on Tuesday with a 225-point victory in the Abilene Spectacular. The win paid $20,000, in addition to $10,000 that the Dual Smart Rey daughter received as a stallion incentive bonus.
Clay Johnson, who shows Dual Smart Kitty for Rusty and Shelley Simpson, Nemo, Tex., now has talented mare pointed toward the Tunica Futurity, at the end of January.
“I lucked into this mare,” said Johnson. “When I went to work for Jeremy (Barwick) after the Super Stakes, he had her pretty much ready to go. I just held her together.” Barwick, an NCHA Open world champion and earner of nearly $1.5 million, turned over the reins of his training operation to Johnson last May, when he and his wife Candace became the owners of Western Bloodstock Ltd. sale company.
Lloyd Cox showed RW Rockin as reserve champion with 221 points; Sannman and Beau Galyean placed third with 218 points.
Monty Johnson, Weatherford, Tex., who owns RW Rockin, was a finalist on the Dual Rey daughter and earned $22,101 in four divisions of the 2013 NCHA Futurity, including the champion’s title in the Non-Pro Senior. Bred by Walton’s Rocking W Ranch, RW Rockin is a full sister to 2009 NCHA Futurity champion Rockin W out of NCHA Horse of the Year Boon San Kitty.
Lloyd Cox also showed Johnson-owned horses Reyvelation, who tied for fourth in the 4-Year-Old division, and Creedence Clearwater, who tied for fifth in the 5 & 6-Year-Old division. Kathleen Moore’s mare Shez Sinsational, fourth in the 5 & 6-Year-Old finals was shown by Cox, as well.
In addition to placing third in the 4-Year-old aboard Sannman, for Galyean and Fults, Beau Galyean was a finalist on Cat Garrett, Reys Over Denver and Red Metallica for Alvin and Becky Fults, and on Abra Cat for Danielle Irlbeck. He also rode Cattalou as a 5 & 6-Year-Old finalist for Curtis Chester.
5 & 6-Year-Old Open
Michael Cooper rode Rose Valley Ranch-owned JJS Catless Merada to a 222.5-point win in the 5 & 6-Year-Old division. Sired by Cats Merada, out of an unshown Smart Little Lena daughter, JJS Catless Merada was reserve champion of the 2013 Cotton Stakes with Cooper and won the Arbuckle Mountain Open Limited with Paul Waters.
Cooper was also a finalist in the 5 & 6-Year-Old Finals on Rose Valley Ranch’s Ruby Tuesdays Jewel and The Finch, as well as Redman GB, owned by James and Gail Hooper.
He Bea Cat, 2012 NCHA Futurity Co-Champion, owned and bred by Jim Crawford, was reserve champion with 221 points under his trainer Tarin Rice. Rice also showed the High Brow Cat son in 2013 to win the Cattlemens Derby and the Southern Futurity, as well as the Cattlemens Derby Gelding division.
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