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Digital Update Breaking News sUBsCRiBe NOw to Quarter Horse News Derby Leaders and get the Sept. 1 issue Rascal Cats and Wes Galyean •NCHASummerSpectacular marked the biggest score of the Derby •ReiningByTheBay Open preliminary rounds, posting a •RanchSection 223 to top the second go and qualify for the Open semifinals. LHR Smooth Jamie May and Phil Hanson led the Week of July 26, 2010 quarterhorseneWs.com Open field after the two go-rounds. RRead more at quarterhorsenews.com. See the Action Video Central Sweet! Craig Haythorn of the Haythorn Ranch t the National Reining the preliminary go- Association Derby, held round then came back Watch this finalist of the Ranch A recently in Oklahoma to the finals and scored Remuda Challenge held at OKC. City, Bud Lyon, 32, Valley View, a 225. They earned dual Texas, was eligible for all four Reserves in the Level 1 Get tHe Latest Open divisions. He went to and Level 2 Limited ONLiNe NOw at OKC with lifetime earnings of Open, were tied for $50,482. Mary Jo Greiff’s The third place in the Level Sweet Spot made sure Lyon went 3 Intermediate Open home a tad richer – $16,807 to and finished tied for 11th place enjoyed the ride. be exact. in the Level 4 Open. Lyon had reason to be con- n DU aL titLes Lyon and The Sweet Spot, Lyon was obviously at home fident. The Sweet Spot is very At one of the most exciting, most a handsome 6-year-old Paint and at ease in the show pen. good at multi-tasking. He’s picturesque reinings of the year, it stallion by Mark This Spot He showed with confidence, enjoyed success not only as a was Andrea Fappani who claimed (PT) out of Sugar Pop Gun especially, while running his reiner, but also as a slow loper. Derby and Futurity Open titles at by Colonels Smoking Gun circles. He threw his horse In 2006, Mike Moser Reining By The Bay in California. [Gunner], marked a 222.5 in some extra slack, sat back and took The Sweet Spot to n aMaZi NG RetURN the American Paint Horse A year after being on the brink of Association Western Pleasure death, young cutter Raley-Mae finals. He has an APHA Radomske was back in the saddle, Register of Merit in Western cutting cows like nobody’s business. Pleasure. Miracles do happen. “It makes it easy to sit back n NOw we’Re taLKiNG! and throw a bunch of slack out NRHA Hall of Fame member Pat there,” Lyon said. “I know that Feuerstein is glad to see the horse can circle.” $100,000-added Shootout added to The Sweet Spot spent his this year’s NRHA Futurity. “It will formative years with Clint be one fabulous class – loaded with Haverty, Krum, Texas, and legitimate contenders – from all Lyon is quick to credit Haverty. over the world. I can’t wait.” “Clint had him as a baby,” he said. “He showed him until I n CORNBReaD tHiNKs got him last November, when “You can’t control what other people I went to work for his owner, do. You can control what you do. If Mary Jo Grieff, at her Another you blame other people for what Day Ranch. We’re going to went wrong in your run or your life, show him as much as possible then you are giving up all control. to put more record on him. I If you give up what you can control, just hope I get the opportunity then nothing changes. When noth- wa to show him more, because I’m L ing changes, nothing changes.” The Sweet Spot tenbeRR y enjoying it.” and Bud Lyon Reiners are also enjoying watching these two compete. Sweet! —PF Digital Update Out ‘N’ about NCHA SUMMER SPECTACULAR Competitors, their families and friends kept busy inside and outside the show pen during the NCHA Summer Spectacular held in Fort Worth, Texas. Photos by Bridget Cook

CATCHING UP BREAK TIME Trainers Cara and Scott Brewer, (above) The cattle Jay, Okla., take a break to watch the first go of change was time to the Derby. catch up for Stacy Fox, Vina, Calif. and Laura Fenimore, College Station, Texas.

A MAN OF MANY HATS Internationally known Brahman breeder Rick Reeves, Hallsville, Texas, competed in the Amateur Classic Challenge.

THE SMILE SAYS IT ALL Taylor Carbo, Plaquemine, La., after winning the Senior Youth Cutting with a 220.5

BREAK TIME Hay broker Clayton Wade, Azle, JUST KIDDIN HAPPY WINNER “This is as good as it gets,” said Tom Donahue, Texas, and his son, Rhett, were in town to watch AROUND (above) Centerville, Texas, who won the Senior division of the Amateur Classic clients ride in the Amateur Classic Challenge (Above) Jasper Challenge. finals. and Julie McCloud, FAMILY CELEBRATION (below) Big hug for Texans Lee and Holly Francois, Buffalo, Texas, play after their daughter, Sydney, won Reserve in the Junior Youth Cutting. games between sets of cows.

SAFE PLACE TO BE Lexie finds a comfy spot with dad, Austin Wade, Burleson, Texas.

PROUD MOM (left) Kippi Cogdell, Tulia, Texas, was all smiles after her son, Blaze, won Reserve in the Senior Youth Cutting on her mare. Equi-Stat, a division of Cowboy Publishing Group and Quarter Horse Cream of the News, compiles and researches money earned within equine per- formance events and then enters this information into its database for use in producing statistical reports. These performance events include cutting, reining, reined cow horse as well as barrel racing, Crop pleasure horse and ranch versatility. Equi-Stat’s statistical informa- tion helps performance horse events present a more accurate picture ast week, Third Cutting COuRte S of their particular event to entrants, breeders, owners and potential cut his way to a 230 score to sponsors. For more information about Equi-Stat and what it might do

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L e Cutting Horse Association Summer n Spectacular in Fort Worth. This was a RH a consecutive Championship for Third Third Cutting’s Shows Cutting and his partner in the show Third Cutting and Boyd Rice in their Show Rounds/Finals Scores Placing Check 230-point run at the 2010 NCHA Summer 2008 NCHA Futurity 218/219/219/214.5 8-tie $79,286 pen, Boyd Rice, Spearman, Texas. Spectacular. Just where does this so-called Third (Below) Boonlight Dancer and Todd Bergen 2009 NCHA Summer Spec 221/217.5/218.5/228.5 1 $75,000 Cutting come from? And what about circle the cow for the 2001 NRCHA Snaffle 2009 Abilene Cutting Spec 220/218/216.5 5-tie $15,032 that name? Bit Futurity Championship. 2009 NCHA Super Stakes 222/222/219/230 1 $138,051 Bred by the Polo Ranch, Third 2010 Cattlemens Derby/Cl 216/218/225 2 $11,810 Cutting is by Boonlight Dancer and 2010 Abilene Cutting Spec 221/221/227 1 $15,292 out of Smart Little Lena daughter Crab 2010 NCHA Super Stakes 219.5/217.5/226 1-tie $43,265 Grass. Boonlight Dancer is a 1998 2010 NCHA Summer Spec 219/219.5/230 1 $34,862 Peptoboonsmal son who powered his Boonlight’s Best Boonlight Dancer has 121 offspring that have won $1.2 million way on to the scene by winning the 2001 Show Rounds/Finals Scores Placing Check National Reined Cow Horse Association COuRte S Horse YOB/Sex Dam/Mat. Grandsire Earnings Snaffle Bit Futurity with Todd Bergen Third Cutting 05/S Crab Grass/Smart Little Lena $412,598 riding. The red roan stallion also showed y Stray Katz 05/M Katz/High Brow Cat $89,042 O

in the cutting pen with Wayne Czisny, f t H Shady Boonlight 04/GShady Little Cat/High Brow Cat $48,185

working his way to a tie for fifth in the e Lil Break Dancer 004 04/M Amy Breaky Oak/Doc’s Oak $44,380 n NCHA Derby in 2002 and then retiring RH a Pepto Playin Frosty 06/M PG Play N For Keeps/Playgun $34,683 with a total of $136,253 on his record. To date, according to AQHA records, detected the horse’s potential after one Crab Grass’ Babies Boonlight Dancer has 372 foals of show ride and handed the reins over to trainer Name Sire YOB/Sex Earnings age (born in 2006 and prior). Boyd Rice, who headed straight to Fort Spooks Fescue Grays Starlight 01/Stallion Crab Grass was bred by Oxbow Ranch Worth for the 2008 NCHA Futurity. Spooks Bluestem Grays Starlight 02/Stallion $75,387 in Texas. It was the mare’s unique tag that At that show, the pair made the finals Funny Grass Boonlight Dancer 04/Stallion $6,999 inspired the Polo Ranch’s Susie Reed to Third Cutting Boonlight Dancer 05/Stallion $412,598 and finished in a tie for eighth. Now, come up with “Third Cutting” as the Brome Grass Boonlight Dancer 06/Mare less than two years later, Third Cutting name for the colt. Crab Grass earned Crabapples Soula Jule Star 07/Stallion has $377,736 on his record, of which $49,390 in a five-year career that started Milkweed Soula Jule Star 08/Stallion $370,284 has been earned at five NCHA with a trip to the Open semifinals at Windrowe Boonlight Dancer 09/Filly limited-age events in Fort Worth. Carl the 1995 NCHA Futurity with Eddie Name Pending Boonlight Dancer 10/Filly Braxton riding. Crab Grass went through Smith said barring unexpected circum- Name Pending Boonlight Dancer 11/? a number of owners before landing at stances, Third Cutting will compete in Fort Worth two more times in 2011 – at Polo Ranch, where she still graces the brought to you by pasture today. In fact, she had a Boonlight the NCHA Super Stakes and NCHA Dancer filly last spring and there’s another Summer Spectacular. The stallion, who foal in her tummy right now. has begun his breeding career, will be Third Cutting had been in training shown some at limited-age cuttings plus with Oklahoma trainer James Payne he’ll be front and center at this fall’s when he was sold in the Polo Ranch dis- American Quarter Horse Association persal sale in October of his 3-year-old World Show in Oklahoma City. year. Texans Carl and Shawnea Smith Be sure to read more about Third “Horsemen Since 1849” paid $46,000 for the young stallion. Cutting’s win at the NCHA Summer Trace Cribbs, horse manager Carl Smith originally purchased Third Spectacular in the Aug. 15, 2010, issue ranch 940/495-3773 Cutting for his own non-pro mount, but of Quarter Horse News. —KT www.waggonerranch.com Digital Update

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Digital Update A Great Horseman “ J.D.Yates is best You have to grow from the youth and known for his performance in the rodeo arena. rookie and beginner people, so you Recently, Yates, and his own can’t put yourself above what’s best for Cathys Dividend, teamed up with our sport. You have to give back. his cousin, Jay “ Wadhams, and — Casey Hinton on making time during the USEF Reining Selection Trial Colonial Cal Dee, also to volunteer at a reining clinic for the AQHA Youth World Cup competitors. owned by Yates, to win Yates and the Bob Feist Invitational Bald N Shiney Team Roping on June 21. though yates is obviously still throwing loops, he has been making the transition from the rodeo arena to the performance horse show pen. two weeks after the bfi, yates showed the world his horse training skills as he and 16-year-old gelding bald n Shiney, owned by nelle Murphy, won the world’s Greatest Horseman Shootout at the battle in the Saddle in Oklahoma City. the duo competed in four events – rein- ing, cutting, steer stopping and working cow horse – and against exhibitors from three other associations to win the event and a paid entry into the 2011 world’s Greatest Horseman Shootout. —SW

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Open semifinals. DiStRibute D 16 Number of High Brow Cat foals that progressed to the semifinals. by featu R 11 Number of Dual Rey foals that made the semifinals.

9 Number of Smooth As A Cat foals e tHiS S ynDiC ate that reached the semifinals.

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