Digital Update Breaking News SUBSCRIBE NOW to Quarter Horse News Respond Lika Fox, and get the Nov. 1 issue Jon Roeser Lead the • NRCHA Snaffle Herd Work at Bit Futurity the NRCHA Snaffle • Holiday Gift Guide Bit Futurity • Brazos Bash In the first day of competition at the National Reined Cow Horse WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 QUARTERHORSENEWS.COM Association Snaffle Bit Futurity TOP HORSES in Reno, Nev., on Monday, it was IRespond Lika Fox.... RANK HORSE EARNINGS 6 GUN SMOKES WIMPY $682,474 1 POCO QUIXOTE RIO $1,108,885 84G (Gun Smokes Pistol x Lacy Jo Read more at quarterhorsenews.com. 83G (Doc Quixote x Poco Lady Whipple x Davey Whipple) Liz x Poco Rip Cash) 7 DUAL REY ME $682,138 2 RED WHITE AND BOON $922,063 99G (Dual Pep x Miss Smart Rey Video See the Action 88G (Smart Little Lena x Royal Jay x Smart Little Lena) year Blue Boon x Boon Bar) Central a 8 LITTLE BADGER DULCE $668,461 Metalliic Cat & 3 SMART LITTLE LENA $743,275 89M (Peppy San Badger x Sandia Beau Galyean t’s been one heck of a year for Metallic 79S (Doc O’Lena x Smart Peppy x Dulce x Doc Bar) Cat and Beau Galyean, the dynamic duo Peppy San) Watch Metallic Cat and Beau 9 DOCS OKIE QUIXOTE $637,707 4 MERADAS LITTLE SUE $730,552 Galyean’s 4-Year-Old Open finals’ that most recently won the 4-Year-Old divi- 80S (Doc Quixote x Jimmette Too SI te r l i n g 90M (Freckles Merada x Docs winning run on Sept. 16 at the sion at the Music City Futurity. In 10 months Hickory Sue x Doc’s Hickory) x Johnny Tivio) Music City Futurity. time, Metallic Cat (High Brow Cat x Chers 5 SISTER CD $710,436 10 METALLIC CAT $609,887 Shadow x Peptoboonsmal) has worked his way 02G (CD Olena x Little Baby Sister 05S (High Brow Cat x Chers GET THE LATEST on to the list of all-time highest-earning cutting x Dual Pep) Shadow x Peptoboonsmal) ONLINE NOW AT horses. The money he earned at Music City put his record at $609,887, which lifted him one Metallic Cat and Beau Galyean make their slot above Quintan Blue, the Marvine Ranch winning run at the 2008 mare who earned $609,140 during her days in n NCHA Futurity. SHINE BY CHEX, the pen. MATT FLARIDA WIN THE TRADITION Metallic Cat’s name is forever etched along- Shine By Chex, owned by Robert side names of cutting horses who are legends in Webb, Westmoreland, Tenn., and the business. He is the No. 3 earning stallion of ridden by Matt Flarida, won the all time, topped only by Smart Little Lena and Futurity Open at The Tradition, Doc Okie Quixote. held Sept. 10-13 at Lexington, Ky. This horse has the breeding of his famous n D ONT LOOK TWICE, daddy, High Brow Cat, the leading NCHA PHIL RAPP ROPE 'EM sire who has fathered foals that have earned AT EL RANCHO more than $35 million in the pen. Metallic Dont Look Twice and Phil Rapp Cat also has the roan coloring of his maternal marked a 227 to win the 4-Year-Old Derby Open at the El Rancho Futurity grandfather, Peptoboonsmal, another one of the and Foothills Fiesta aged event. industry’s leading sires with over $14 million in offspring earnings. stallion topped the field with a 228-point score n NRCHA SNAFFLE BIT The sterling career began last December when ($80,463). Most recently, Metallic Cat finished FUTURITY SALES Metallic Cat and Galyean won the NCHA 10th at the West Texas Futurity ($3,200), took There are three sales to be held third at the Mebane Ranch Festival ($6,224) in conjunction with the NRCHA Futurity ($250,000). That was followed by a Snaffle Bit Futurity: Oct. 1, NRCHA winning performance at the Abilene Spectacular and won at Music City ($19,835). Classic Yearling & Broodmare Sale; ($50,160) along with a Reserve Championship There are still a number of shows left this sea- Oct. 2, NRCHA Select Yearling & at Tunica ($18,306). Metallic Cat posted a 226 son, and Galyean said the plan is to campaign Broodmare Sale; and Oct. 3, NRCHA at the NCHA Super Stakes, which took second Metallic Cat through November, in an attempt Select 2-Year-Old Sale & NRCHA to earn the coveted NCHA Horse of the Year Performance Horse Sale. place ($155,455), and then came back at the NCHA Derby to earn 225 points for third title. Now, it’s on to the Brazos Bash, which ($26,244). At the Breeder’s Invitational, the begins this week in Weatherford, Texas! —KT Digital Update The High Roller Reining Classic Photos by John O’Hara Out ‘N’ About What a Great Selection Gillian Galligan surveys the Stallion Service Silent Auction sign displayed at the Las Vegas event. The Way I See It Great Job, Dad! Casey Deary gets a big hug Ben Balow talking about reins from his son, Wyatt, following his performance. Which One? (Left) Ken and Stacey Hamilton checkin’ out the show’s vendor area Just Right! (Right) Brent Naylor gives Ashley Wilson a thumbs-up approval. Right About Here (Above left) Event massage genius JC Adams takes some of his own treatment. Giddy Up Go (Above right) Ryan Mills, son of trainer Matt Mills, rides his stick horse around the barn area. Me And My Shadow (Left) Where’s the hot dog stand? (Left) Mandy Brumley’s dog checks out the South Point Jordan McBurney Equestrian Center showgrounds. It’s Just Part of the Job (Right) Tony Zimmerman and Plum Gotta Gun and Craig Schmersal, in the cool 100-degree outside heat. Itty Bitty Mare with a he old adage “great things come in small And the beat goes on packages” certainly rang true when it Lynx Melody’s 16 offspring have Tcame to Lynx Melody. She’s gone now earned a total of $1,208,998 for aver- – the mare died Sept. 28, 2004, at the age of age earnings of $75,562. Her leading money- (Above) 29 – but she’ll never be forgotten. Her legacy earner is Shania Cee (a 1996 daughter of Lynx Melody and Larry lives on through her multiple money-earning Peppys Boy 895), who also won the NCHA Reeder (Below, left) Lynx Melody and her offspring and grandget. Futurity Open Championship (in 1999) and first colt, Docs Accident, whom she foaled Standing just a little over 13 hands tall, has total Equi-Stat lifetime earnings of before she won the 1978 NCHA Futurity Open Lynx Melody and her 6-foot-plus trainer, $406,697. Lynx Melody’s second-leading Championship. Larry Reeder, captured the hearts of spectators money-earner, Cattin (a son of Smart Little daughter, Shakin Cee, earned $16,064 and attending the 1978 National Cutting Horse Lena) has earnings of $137,811 and thus far, is the dam of Shakin Flo, the winner of Association Futurity Open finals. The pair he has 81 earners of $1,005,132. Another of $428,306. scored a 221.5 to claim the Championship and Lynx Melody’s daughters, Crackin (by Smart It’s no small wonder that Lynx Melody will prize money totaling $63,818 for the mare’s Little Lena), who be remembered for not only her accomplish- owner, the late Billy Cogdell, Tulia, Texas. earned $133,084 ments in the cutting pen but for her sons’, Lynx Melody (Doc’s Lynx x Trona x Leon herself, produced daughters’ and grandget’s, as well. She proved Bars) didn’t just set records in the cutting a son, Crackerboy size doesn’t matter. In reference to her small pen; she also set a record as the first NCHA (DNA), who has stature, Larry Reeder perhaps said it best: Futurity Champion to have produced a foal earned $254,026. “You don’t measure a horse’s ability by the before winning the prestigious title. When Lynx Melody’s height of her withers.” —TL Codgell purchased Lynx Melody at the 1977 NCHA Futurity Sale for $6,500, he didn’t LYNX MELODY OFFSPRING / GRANDGET EARNINGS know he was getting a package, or two-for- one, deal. The following March, Lynx Melody Foals Earnings Gender Sire Pat.-Grandsire Offspring/earnings/top performer foaled a stud colt by Doc’s Stormy Leo, which SHANIA CEE $406,697.19 96M, ET Peppys Boy 895 Vibrant Peppy 7/ $269,384 / Sophisticated Catt, $162,935 CATTIN $137,811.08 90 Sire Smart Little Lena Doc O’Lena 81 / $1,005,132 / Cowcattin, $247,173 was aptly named Docs Accident. The “surprise SNEAKIN CEE $135,542.48 91 M, Dam Maxi Lena Doc O’Lena 6 / $90,051 / Sneakin Out To Play, $55,644 foal” went on to finish as an Open finalist in CRACKIN $133,083.81 88 M, Dam Smart Little Lena Doc O’Lena 8 / $329,604 / Crackerboy (DNA), $254,026 the 1981 NCHA Futurity and recorded life- SHININ MELODY $66,253.64 98 M, ET Peppys Boy 895 Vibrant Peppy 2 / $12,195 / Jerry Curls, $7,591 time Equi-Stat earnings of $51,491. MELODY LENA $60,642.46 84 M, Dam Maxi Lena Doc O’Lena 9 / $115,720 / Starlights Starbrite, $36,692 In June 1979, Lynx Melody, bred by Mr. LITTLE PEPPY CEE $55,541.05 82 G, dec. Peppy San Badger Mr San Peppy and Mrs. James Wesley, Phoenix, Ariz., and DOCS ACCIDENT $51,491.10 78 G, dec. Doc’s Stormy Leo Doc’s Demonstrator Reeder traveled to California, where they won A PEPPYS MELODY $39,911.00 97 M, ET Peppys Boy 895 Vibrant Peppy 4/ $66,996 / Rey Cool, $41,876 the Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association MARTINA CEE $36,534.40 96 M, ET Peppys Boy 895 Vibrant Peppy 4 / $109,787 / Im Smartly Colored (PT), $54,907 Maturity Open Championship.