Jae Bar One Time and Michael Cooper, third-placed in the NCHA Futurity for owner James Hooper, claimed the brass ring Saturday with a 222-point win in the Abilene Spectacular Futurity.
The $20,000 winner’s payout, plus a $10,000 stallion incentive bonus through the the gelding’s sire, One Time Pepto, raised Jae Bar One Time’s earnings to $151,334 – second only among 4-year-old cutting performers of 2012 to NCHA Futurity champion Oh Miss Caroline, with $200,000.
Jae Bar One Time was bred by Crystal Creek Ranch and purchased from Wrigley Ranches by Darol Rodrock, Bucyrus, Kansas, at the 2010 NCHA Futurity Sale under 2-year-old trainer Gerald Alexander. Cooper, who was training for Rodrock at the time, took over Jae Bar One Time’s reins following the Futurity, but in the spring of 2011, because of poor health, Rodrock decided to sell all of his performance horses.
“James Hooper rode the horse in April and just fell in love with him,” said Cooper. “He’s not the prettiest horse in the world, but that doesn’t bother us because he’s been a really good horse the whole time.”
Jae Bar One Time is out of the High Brow Cat daughter Jae Bars Fancy Cat, who placed second in the 2005 Abilene Spectacular Futurity with Clint Allen. Jae Bars Fancy Cat, the dam of 5-year-old full siblings – One Fancy Time, $25,630, and Purrfect Timin, $21,944 – to Jae Bar One Time, is out of Jae Bar Maise, 1987 NCHA Non-Pro World Champion for Debbie Patterson, and full sister to Jae Bar Fletch, 1989 NCHA Open World Champion under Kenny Patterson for Ernest Cannon.
Cinca De Maya and Wes Galyean, who earned the high average of 436.5 points going into the Abilene Spectacular, placed second in the finals with 219.5 points; Short N Smooth, shown by Paul Hansma, was third with 219.
Cinca De Maya, owned and bred by Paul Dean out of 2005 NCHA Open Futurity champion Highbrow Supercat, placed 12th with Galyean in the NCHA Futurity. Galyean also showed Cinca De Maya’s half-brother, Peptos Supercat, by Peptoboonsmal, as a finalist in the Abilene Spectacular and the NCHA Futurity.
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