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Tarin Rice earned 219 points on Tuesday, November 24, aboard Catolena Cashin In to claim the day’s high aggregate of 443 points, after the pair scored 224 points to win the first go-round.

In addition, Rice topped Tuesday’s field with 222 points and claimed the second-highest aggregate score of 441.5 points riding Timeless Lil Cat who, like Catolena Cashin In, is owned and bred, by Joel Colgrove, Boligee, Ala.

Speak Easie, sired by Smooth Talkin Style and shown by Cass Tatum, with scores of 222 and 218, ranked third on Tuesday with an aggregate of 440 points, and Mister Temptation, who posted Tuesday’s second-highest score of 221 points under Andy Sherrerd, was one of four horses to earn the third-highest aggregate of 439 points.

Catolena Cashin In, by first crop sire Reyzin The Cash, scored 224 points under Tarin Rice to claim the high score on the first of five days of Open go-round competition, and the first day of the 2020 NCHA World Championship Futurity, running November 19 through December 13, at Fort Worth’s Will Rogers Memorial Complex.

Owned and bred by Joel Colgrove, Boligee, Ala., Catolena Cashin In is out of the High Brow Cat daughter Dual Catolena LTE $37,917, dam of two money earners, Catn Bluez LTE $21,320, and the Woody Be Tuff gelding Catolena Express LTE $19,444, who Colgrove showed as a 2018 NCHA Futurity Amateur finalist.

Timeless Lil Cat, a One Time Pepto daughter owned and bred by Joel Colgrove, is out of the Dual Rey daughter CR Little Cat LTE $21,236, dam of earners of $101,633, including Double Cat Flash LTE $67,391. CR Little Cat, out of CR Cats Meow, by High Brow Cat, is also a full sister to CR Tuff Hearted Cat LTE $276,864, co-champion under Ronnie Rice of the 2012 NCHA Futurity.

Tarin Rice, the NCHA Hall of Fame earner of $2,550,319, has been an NCHA Open finalist seven times, on six different horses, including in 2012, when he tied his grand uncle, Ronnie Rice, as the Futurity co-champion and placed fourth in the Open Ltd Finals riding He Bea Cat, also shown by Tarin as 2013 NCHA Open Horse of the Year and the earner of $401,384.

Mister Temptation, owned by Kelly Krueger, Whitesboro, Tex., and bred by Kathleen Moore, Madill, Okla., is by Metallic Cat out of Shez Sinsational LTE $71,088, by Dual Pep, a half-sister to NCHA Futurity Open finalists Lou Lou Louise LTE $138,711 and Miss Peptoinstiletoos LTE $84,809.

Andy Sherrerd, the NCHA Hall of Fame earner of $1,129,851, has been an NCHA Futurity Open finalist four times and an Open Limited finalist seven times, with a reserve championship in the 2002 NCHA Open Limited aboard Carolena Moon LTE $76,150.

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