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Langston Pattillo won the Semi-Finals of the McAlister Assets NCHA Classic Challenge Amateur Unlimited with 219 points on Wednesday, July 24, the thirteenth day of the Metallic Cat NCHA Summer Spectacular. Pattillo, the 2018 NCHA Amateur Rider of the Year, was showing High Stylin CD, by High Brow CD. Madison Crum and Carol Ward tied for second with 217 points on Call Me Catness, by High Brow Cat, and Crafty With Cows, by High Brow CD, respectively, while Reyly Plendl was third with 216.5 points aboard Mr Metallic Rey, by Metallic Cat.

Semi-finalists with a score of 214 points or more advanced to the finals, which will be held on Thursday, July 25.

In addition to winning both last year’s NCHA Classic Challenge Amateur Unlimited and Amateur championships, Langston Pattillo, the NCHA earner of $310,122, and High Stylin CD, won Amateur championships in the Breeders Invitational Classic and the Bonanza Classic, as well.

Six-year-old High Stylin CD LTE $207,084 was bred by Sunrise Ranch out of Stylin Playgirl LTE $203,277, by Docs Stylish Oak. So far this year, Pattillo and his gelding have won the Bonanza Classic Non-Pro championship, as well as the Breeders Invitational Classic Amateur Unlimited, and claimed reserve in the NCHA Super Stakes Amateur Unlimited. In addition, last Friday, the pair tied for third  place in the NCHA Classic Challenge Non-Pro Finals. 

Madison Crum scored 220 points on Call Me Catness last Sunday, to top competition in the McAlister Assets Amateur Unlimited go-round. Crum, the NCHA earner of $130,740, had been the 2016 NCHA LAE Rookie of the Year and a 2017 NCHA Classic Challenge Amateur Finalist riding Metallictoy LTE $96,820. Earlier this year, Crum claimed the Breeders Invitational Non-Pro Limited reserve championship with El Doreydo LTE $33,698, by Dual Rey.

Call Me Catniss LTE $48,074, Crum’s Classic Challenge mount, has been successfully shown in Open limited age events by Geoffrey Sheehan. The 6-year-old High Brow Cat daughter is a three-quarter sister to Tuned Up To Drive LTE $122,761, by Hydrive Cat. 

Carol Ward, the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $990,121, won the 2017 NCHA Derby Amateur Unlimited aboard Crafty With Cows and, most recently, placed fifth with the gelding in the 2019 NCHA Super Stakes Amateur Unlimited, and third in the Gelding and Senior divisions of the same class.

Crafty With Cows LTE $387,973 has been a successful Open, Non-Pro and Amateur limited age event finalist with both trainer R.L. Chartier, who showed him to place third in the 2016 NCHA Futurity, as well as 13 other working finals, and with Ward, who has shown him as a finalist in eight working finals, and also earned money in Senior and/or Gelding divisions of the same events.

Reyly Plendl, the NCHA earner of $230,061 and third-place finalist in the 2017 NCHA Futurity Amateur Unlimited with LHR Play Boon, won the Cattlemen’s Derby 5/6 Amateur Unlimited this year, and claimed the reserve championship of the Cattlemen’s Derby 5/6 Non-Pro showing Mr Metallic Rey. The duo also placed third in the 2019 Breeders Invitational Amateur Unlimited, as well as in the Non-Pro Limited Finals of the same event. 

Six-year-old Mr Metallic Rey was bred by Rick Plendl and has been shown successfully by trainer Nick O’Dell, as well as by both Reyly and her sister Regan, who have shown the gelding as finalists in 21 major events. Regan Plendl won the NCHA Classic Challenge Non-Pro championship last Friday on Cats Lightning Rey, by NRR Cat King Cole, and also qualified on the gelding for Thursday’s Amateur Unlimited Finals.