2017 NCHA Eastern National Championships – March 16, 2018 – Jackson, Miss.

Cheyenne Johnson, Pine Level, Ala., and Tom E Toy, won the NCHA Eastern Nationals $50,000 Amateur Finals with 217 points. Jason Britt, Seven Springs, N.C., and DMAC Hipster took reserve with 213.5 points, while Brittany Overstreet, Kenansville, Fla., and Two Good A Boon placed third with 212.5 points.

Since she placed as Junior Youth reserve champion in 2009 on Freckles Blue Jewel, Cheyenne Johnson has been a finalist in 11 other NCHA Eastern Nationals Finals, including last year, when she placed with Tom E Toy in the $5,000 Novice Non-Pro Finals. Earlier this week, Johnson and 8-year-old Tom E Toy LTE $19,617, by Thomas E Hughes, also placed as finalists in the $25,000 Novice Non-Pro Finals.

Cheyenne Johnson was the recipient of the 2012 NCHA Todd Drummond Memorial Award and the 2012 Whitney and Greg Welch Memorial Sportsmanship Award.

Jason Britt, was also a finalist and topped the go-round in the $25,000 Novice Non-Pro division with 218.5 points on DMAC Hipster. Britt and the 5-year-old gelded son of Hickorys Indian Pep, won the Congress Futurity Amateur Unlimited and placed in the finals of the 2018 Augusta Futurity 5/6 Classic Non-Pro. Britt was an NCHA Eastern Nationals finalist last year in the $50,000 Amateur riding Dontreynonmyparadesf.

Brittany Overstreet, the NCHA earner of $56,597, showed Fays Sugar Guard as a $10,000 Amateur finalist in the 2008 NCHA Eastern Nationals. Overstreet has been showing since 2000, mostly in weekend competition. Nine-year-old Two Good A Boon LTE $46,843, by Peptoboonsmal, also carried Waylon Overstreet to place in the Eastern Nationals $25,000 Novice Non-Pro Finals, earlier this week.