NCHA News

Monday, the second of three days of Open go-round action in the 2019 NCHA Kit Kat Sugar Super Stakes, saw four of the 82 entries score 220 points of higher, including Louellas Tomcat, with 221.5 points under T.J. Good for Bitterroot Ranch, Las Vegas, Nev.; Metallic Rita, with 220.5 under Grant Setnicka for Robert Thigpen, Chilton, Tex.; Exs N Ohhs, with 220.5 points under Lloyd Cox for Barker Ranch, Madill, Okla.; and Metallic Curveball, with 220 under Jesse Lennox, showing for Rocking P Ranch, Fort Worth, Tex.

Summertime Fun, with 220 points under James Payne on Sunday, is the only other entry, as yet, to top the teens, in the first go-round.

Louellas Tomcat LTE $9,366, by High Brow Cat, was bred by Oxbow Ranch out of Louella Again LTE $77,853, a 1996 NCHA Super Stakes finalist with Lindy Burch, and the dam of Cattalou LTE $306,149, Louellas Cat LTE $302,483, and Louis The Cat LTE $254,458, all full siblings of Louellas Tomcat. Last December, owner Bonnie Martin showed Louellas Tomcat as an NCHA Futurity Amateur Unlimited finalist, the colt’s only major limited age event finals to date.

Metallic Rita LTE $18,023, by Metallic Cat, is a full sister to Ruby Rita LTE $72,926, who Grant Setnicka showed as a finalist for Robert Thigpen in the 2018 NCHA Super Stakes and NCHA Derby.

Bred by Thigpen, Metallic Rita is out of Pats Little Senorita LTE $31,801, who Thigpen showed as a 2006 NCHA Super Stakes Amateur finalist. Metallic Rita also carried Thigpen  as an Amateur finalist in the 2018 NCHA Futurity, and Grant Setnicka showed the mare this year as a finalist in the Abilene Spectacular.

Exs N Ohhs LTE $40,000, by Kit Kat Sugar, is a half-sister to Second Spot LTE $352,103, and was bred by Barker Ranch out of Reycy Moon LTE $209,363, whose dam, Twice As Reycy LTE $194,141, was reserve champion of the 2003 NCHA Futurity with Lloyd Cox.

Barker Ranch owner Gary Barker showed Exs N Ohhs earlier this year to win the Arbuckle Mountain Amateur Unlimited championship, and Cox has shown her as a finalist in the Abilene Spectacular and the Arbuckle Mountain 4-Year-Old Open.

Metallic Curveball LTE $11,742, by Metallic Cat, is out of Cinca De Maya LTE $106,341, a half-sister to Highbrow Supercat $364,690, the 2002 NCHA Futurity champion and dam of the earners of over $1.3 million. Jesse Lennox showed Metallic Curveball to place seventh last month in the Cattlemen’s Derby. 

For complete daily results from the 2019 NCHA Kit Kat Sugar Super Stakes click here.