John Logan of Harbor Springs, Michigan won the 3-year-old non-pro division of the Music City Futurity, on Monday, September 18, aboard homegrown Modacious. The win, Logan’s second major title, was worth $14,135.
“Modacious is just a cute little 3-year-old that is solid and willing,” said Logan of the gelded son of SR Instant Choice. “We marked 213 in the finals and I told my wife that the other five people (in the finals) must have been on my team. They just made little mistakes that cost them.
“We had a good draw and were right where we needed to be. It just all worked out for a change.”
Logan marked 213 and 212 in the go-rounds and had the third-highest average score. Billy Atwood earned 210 points in the finals as reserve champion on Aristo Royale.
Modacious is Logan’s second limited age event finalist out of Travlin For Mo Money, by Travalena, a mare owned by his mother-in-law, Caryl Chocola, also of Harbor Springs. Nat King Flo, out of Travlin For Mo Money, carried Logan to third place in the 2003 Music City Futurity and has earned more than $35,000. He and Modacious were both trained by Jim Mitchell.
Logan, who has been cutting for 12 years, owns Clean Team USA, an industrial and commercial cleaning supply business headquartered in Lansing, Michigan. He and his wife, Kelley, keep about 40 horses on Kel-Chris Farm in Harbor Springs, a resort town about 20 minutes from the bridge across the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Kel-Chris Farm was named for Kelley Logan and her brother, U.S. Congressman Chris Chocola, Second District of Indiana, who was a co-sponsor of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 to extend and fortify the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
The Logans also own the stallion Smart Little Levi, who they stand at EE Ranches Stallion Station in Whitesboro, Texas, and who will be presented at EE Ranches Breeders Production Sale preview, on Thursday, September 21.
Modacious will compete next in the American Quarter Horse Congress in Columbus, Ohio, with Logan in the non-pro and Jim Mitchell in the open division. Two years ago, Mitchell and Logan won back to-back titles there in the 5 & 6-year-old divisions on Cash Moria. Logan and Steve Adams, manager of EE Ranches, have consigned Cash Moria’s yearling son, by Dual Rey, to the EE Ranches Sale on Friday, September 22.