Pitchforks Bet 013 emerged as the first champion of the 2016 Jerry’s Chevrolet NCHA Futurity, presented by Great American Insurance, when he won the Limited Open finals Wednesday evening in Fort Worth’s Will Rogers Coliseum.

Todd Adolf marked 219.5 on the son of Bet Hesa Cat to win by half a point from Dualin Cats, ridden by Robbie Boyce.

Pitchforks Bet 013 was bred by James Eakin, who sold him as a yearling for $22,000 at the Western Bloodstock NCHA Futurity Sales. He is by Bet Hesa Cat out of Pitchforks Lena, an earner of $64,000, and  a producer of earners of $74,000. Pitchforks Lena is out of Sons Pitchfork, which Wayland Long showed in his Non-Pro World Championship campaign of 1989.

Kim Adolf of Morristown, Arizona owns Pitchforks Bet 013. The 3-year-old marked a pair of 216s in the Open go-rounds, missing the cut-off for the semi-finals by half a point.

This is Adolf’s first NCHA Futurity paycheck. He has won a long list of limited age events, including the Western States Futurity, Rocky Mountain Futurity, Utah Futurity and Wyoming Futurity.

Reserve champion Dualin Cats is a son of Metallic Cat out of Lethal Dually, bred and owned by Cowan Select Horses of Havre, Montana. His dam is a half-sister to $393,000 earner Thomas E Hughes.

In the last two years, Boyce has won an Open title at the Chisholm Trail Fall Roundup, and Limited Open championships at the Ike Hamilton, Arbuckle Mountain, Chisholm Trail and West Texas Futurities.

In the second round of the Non-Pro, Lance Cooper marked 219 to give him the high cumulative score of 435.5. He rode Bet Shes A Smoothie, a mare bred by Bar RR Ranches by Smooth As A Cat out of Play A Bet, by Bet On Me 498. Play A Bet is a winner of $35,000.