Julie Hansma and Al Poocino topped the Super Stakes Classic Non-Pro first go-round with 218.5 points. Mary Ann Rapp and Amanda Starlena were second with 218, in a field that advanced to the second round with 208 points or above.
Al Poocino represents 30 years of family ties for Julie and her husband, Paul, who showed the Dual Pep gelding to fifth place last week in the Open Classic.
The Hansma’s raised Al Poocino out of Capoo, who Paul showed to win over $140,000. Capoo in turn is out of 1994 NCHA Horse of the Year Hicapoo, bred by Paul and ridden by him to earn nearly $450,000.
Hicapoo’s dam is Super Poo, who “was the start of Paul’s whole career,” according to Julie.
Paul Hansma is ranked third among NCHA’s all-time money earners.
“We loved Hicapoo,” said Julie. “But Paul sold her (to Jim and Mary Jo Milner) right before we got married. The fact that Capoo has had these nice babies is really special because we’re so attached to our horses. We love all of that part, as well as the cutting.”
Al Poocino’s full brother, 8-year-old Bob Dualin, earned more than $200,000 with Julie and is now a favorite show mount of the Hansma’s 13-year-old daughters, Cade and McCall.
Al Poocino’s other performing siblings include full brother Boiler Room, with $180,000, and 4-year-old half-brother SDP Al Capoone, by TR Dual Rey, a finalist (10th) in the Super Stakes Open with Lloyd Cox.
Julie’s brother, Tom Dvorak, showed Al Poocino as a finalist in the 2007 NCHA Futurity, and Julie and Paul have shown him as a finalist in 14 other open and non-pro major events.
Most recently, Julie scored 226 points on the 6-year-old gelding to win the NCHA Non-Pro World Series of Cutting at San Antonio.
Poosmal, Capoo’s half-sister by Peptoboonsmal, is the dam of CD Boonsmal ($227,455), as well as Playin At The Mall, who won Fridays Super Stakes Amateur Classic with Gene Quirk and was an Open finalist under Austin Shepard. Poosmal is also dam of Peptowood ($116,585), and Playin Poo ($64,169).
Meanwhile Super Poo, a 1979 daughter of Pima Country, and a treasured member of the Hansma family, still grazes their pastures in Weatherford, TX.