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Limited Non-Pro NCHA Classic Challenge champion Carly Chiarelli on Olive Martini. Hart Photography.

Carly Chiarelli, Poolville, Tex., scored 222 points aboard Olive Martini, by Metallic Cat, on Thursday to win the NCHA/Metallic Cat Summer Spectacular Classic Challenge Limited Non-Pro finals. Gentry Gonsalves, Millsap,Tex., claimed reserve with 217 points on Georgia Bootlegger, by Dual Smart Rey, while Ryann Packard, Guthrie, Okla., placed third in the 13-horse finals with 215 points on Peptos Scootin Man, by Smart Lil Scoot.

Earlier on Thursday, preceding the Limited Non-Pro finals, Chiarelli and Olive Martini scored 217.5 points in the second go-round of the Classic Challenge division to secure the top cumulative score of 436.5 points. Bill Cowan, Ardmore, Okla., earned a cumulative of 436 points aboard 5-year-old Catty Bluz LTE $34,769, by Catty Hawk, while Kyle Manion, Aubrey, Tex., and 5-year-old Sofie Smooth LTE $14,361, by Smooth As A Cat, were third with 435 points. Riders with cumulative scores of 430.5 points or higher earned entrance to the finals scheduled for Sunday, July 22.

Carly Chiarelli, the NCHA earner of $276,700, and Olive Martini LTE $86,042, won the 2018 Cattlemen’s 5/6 Non-Pro Classic Non-Pro Limited and placed second in the 2018 Breeders Invitational 5/6 Non-Pro Limited Classic. They placed in the 2018 Cattlemen’s 5/6 Non-Pro Classic, as well as the Breeders Invitational 5/6 Non-Pro Classic, the NCHA Super Stakes Classic Non-Pro Limited, and the NCHA Super Stakes Classic Non-Pro.

Chiarelli also won the 2009 NCHA Classic Challenge Amateur championship on Lil Peppys Advantage LTE $130,973.

Olive Martini, a 5-year-old daughter of Metallic Cat, is out of Martinis Miss Peppy LTE $246,925, half-sister to Miss Martini Play LTE $89,418, dam of earners of $1,102,410, including two NCHA Triple Hall of Fame Horses – Copaspepto LTE $416,882 and Stylish Martini LTE $361,920.

Senior Youth eligible Gentry Gosalves, the NCHA earner of $17,555, and 5-year-old Georgia Bootlegger placed second in the 2018 Non-Pro Cutting Non-Pro Limited division, as well as third in the 2018 Non-Pro Limited divisions of the NCHA Super Stakes Classic and the Breeders Invitational.

Georgia Bootlegger LTE $16,165, out of Cats Barmaid Chick, by Highbrow Cat, is a half-sister to Spoonfulla Cat LTE $246,168.

Junior Youth eligible Ryann Packard, the NCHA earner of $47,015, won the $35,000 Non-Pro division of the 2018 Non- Pro Cutting on Playin In Jewels LTE $87,309. In 2017, Packard and Peptos Scootin Man LTE $41,795 placed in the Non-Pro Limited divisions of the Cattlemen’s Derby (2), the Cotton Stakes (2), and the NCHA Classic Challenge (3).

Bill Cowan posted the top score of the second round of the Non-Pro on Catty Bluz. Hart Photography.

2016 NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame inductee Bill Cowan, the earner of $817,617, won the 2008 NCHA Futurity Non-Pro Limited and placed eighth in the Non-Pro Finals aboard Catty Hawk, the sire of Catty Bluz. In 2018, Cowan and 5-year-old gelding Catty Bluz have placed in the Abilene Spectacular Non-Pro and claimed reserve in the Non-Pro Limited division of that show; won the Cattlemen’s Derby Non-Pro Novice 5/6 division; and placed (7) in the Arbuckle Mountain 5/6 Non-Pro.

Kyle Manion, the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $1,696,022, placed seventh in the 2017 NCHA Futurity Non-Pro Finals aboard Smooth As Mimi, by Smooth As A Cat. Sofie Is Smooth and Manion placed in the 2017 NCHA Derby Non-Pro Finals and won the 2017 NCHA Derby Non-Pro Novice divisions.

Five-year-old Sofie Is Smooth is out of Sofie Rey LTE $148,557, the dam of four earners of $57,264.

The 2018 NCHA/Metallic Cat Summer Cutting Spectacular continues daily through Aug. 5^th. For live webcast and live scoring go to NCHAcutting.com.