NCHA News

Scotty Rice, Weatherford, Tex., posted 221.5 and 220 on Herradura Cat, by High Brow Cat, for the top cumulative score of 441.5, on the last day of Non-Pro go-round competition for the 2020 NCHA Futurity. Rice was one of 63 riders with 431.5 points or higher to advance to the Non-Pro Semi-Finals on Friday, December 11.

Rice, the NCHA earner of $518,106, has been an NCHA Futurity Non-Pro finalist four times and a Non-Pro Limited finalist three times, including in 2017, when he showed Times Be Tuff LTE $87,928 to place ninth in the Non-Pro Finals, and in 2003, when he was a Non-Pro finalist and placed third in the Limited Finals on Dee Cats Meow LTE $134,216.

Brandon Westfall, the NCHA earner of $618,068, showing Fiddle And Steel, by Metallic Cat, earned 440.5 points, the second-highest cumulative, with go-round scores of 222 and 218.5 points.

Westfall, who lives in Granbury, Tex., won the 2019 NCHA Futurity Non-Pro championships showing I Reckon So LTE $78,580, by Kit Kat Sugar, and placed third on Desires One And Only LTE $52,576, by One Time Pepto.  In 2017, he was NCHA Futurity Non-Pro reserve champion riding Smooth Lil Cowtown LTE $127,352, by Smooth As A Cat, and in 2018, he placed in the Open Finals and the Open Limited Finals riding Ringo LTE $57,886, by Kit Kat Sugar, and was a Non-Pro finalist aboard The Bluez Feather, by The Bluez Man.

Austin Adams, Springtown, Tex., riding A Shoot N Star, by Smooth Talkin Style, and Madalyn Colgrove, Boligee, Ala., aboard Reyzin Nu Desires, by Reyzin The Cash, tied with 438.5, the third-highest cumulative. Adams was a first go-round leader with 222 points, while Colgrove shared the second go-round high score of 222 points with Langston Pattillo, St. Elmo, Ill., who showed Hot Sauzz, by Im Countin Checks.

Adams, the NCHA earner of $454,394, has been an NCHA Futurity Non-Pro finalist three times, in addition to being a Non-Pro Limited finalist three times, and an Amateur finalist four times, including as reserve champion in 2007 with WRS Dually Smart LTE $16,508, by Smart Little Lena. Adams also placed seventh in the 2018 NCHA Futurity Open Limited aboard Metallic Special Cat LTE $26,086.

Madalyn Colgrove, the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $721,557, was a 2018 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity finalist on Hammer Hughes LTE $42,129, by Thomas E Hughes. Last year Colgrove was a Futurity Non-Pro Semi-Finalist riding DMAC In Good Faith LTE $6,558, by Metallic Cat.

Reyzin Nu Desires, Colgrove’s 2020 mount, is owned and bred by Madalyn’s sister, Blakley Colgrove Simoneaux, out of Desires Nu Catillac LTE $58,923. A full sister to Thundercat LTE $302,762, among earners of $1,572,227, Desires Nu Catillac is out the leading producer Desire Some Freckles LTE $188,990.

Blakley Simoneaux, the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $773,141, also qualified for the Non-Pro Semi-Finals, with a cumulative of 434 points, showing the Reyzin The Cash colt He Haz Reyzin, owned and bred by her sister Madalyn.

Langston Pattillo’s gelding, Hot Sauzz, was also bred by Madalyn Colgrove, out of Sweet Lil Sue, a High Brow CD daughter that Madalyn showed to earn $47,769. Hot Sauzz is Sweet Lil Sue’s first foal to show. Langston Pattillo, the NCHA earner of $452,331, placed ninth in last year’s NCHA Futurity Non-Pro Finals aboard Catsa U Later $32,733, and was a 2018 Non-Pro Limited and Amateur finalist riding Kit Cat Kisses LTE $21,585, by Kit Kat Sugar. Catsa U Later, by Boon Too Suen, also carried Pattillo to place third in the 2020 NCHA Derby Amateur, and to win the Abilene Spectacular 4-Year-Old Amateur Unlimited.

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