Bobbie Kay Davis, Templeton, Calif., an Unlimited Amateur riding Just U N Me Baby, by Metallic Cat, scored 219.5 points on Thursday, December 3, to top all competitors to-date in the Amateur & Unlimited Amateur go-round of the 2020 NCHA Futurity. The go-round, which began on Wednesday, December 2, concludes on Sunday, December 6, and determines qualifiers for the McAlister Assets Unlimited Amateur Semi-Finals on December 7 and the Rios of Mercedes Amateur Semi-Finals on December 8.
Xavier Rodriguez, Miama, Fla., riding CR Tuffsoutaurleague, by Woody Be Tuff; Fernando Loza with Gotachangeurevilways, by Kit Kat Sugar; and Julie McBurney, Burbank, Calif., showing  Fifty Shadz Of Rey, by Dual Rey, each scored 219, the go-round’s second-highest score.
Bobbie Kay Davis, the NCHA earner of $111,728, was a semi-finalist in the 2018 NCHA Futurity Amateur Unlimited aboard Audi Smooth LTE $16,631, by Smooth As A Cat. This year Davis claimed the PCCHA Futurity 5/6-Year-Old Non-Pro Limited on RN Starlights Cat LTE $119,055, by High Brow Cat, who she also showed to place third in the 2018 NCHA Super Stakes Amateur Finals.
Bred by Davis, Just U N Me Baby, is the first foal to show out of Nitas Wood daughter Wood U N Me Baby LTE $179,286, who was shown by Russ Westfall in Open limited age events. Wood U N Me Baby is a full sister to Woodys Baby LTE $391,396, NCHA Non-Pro World reserve champion in 2016.
Last year, Xavier Rodriguez, the NCHA earner of $48,970, showed Bohemianne Rhapsody LTE $3,020, by Dual Rey, as a semi-finalist in both the Amateur and Unlimited Amateur Semi-Finals of the NCHA Futurity. CR Tuffsoutaurleague is out of the Dual Pep daughter DPS Lenas Lucinda LTE $70,987, dam of 13 earners of $379,451, including Cats Dual Olena LTE $97,174, and CR Lucys Playboy LTE $95,802, by Pepto Rio Playboy.
Fernando Loza, the NCHA earner of $27,689 and highest-scoring 2020 Amateur go-round entry through Thursday’s competition, won the 2019 Ike Hamilton Futurity 5/6 Amateur Finals with Guitars N Cattlelacs LTE $15,802, by Bet Hesa Cat. Gotachangeurevilways is out of the Dual Rey daughter Wicked Wanda Rey LTE $30,885, dam of two earners of $75,333, including Wicked Little Cat LTE $70,958, by Metallic Cat.
Julie McBurney, NCHA earner of $247,316, has been an NCHA Futurity finalist twice – as a Non-Pro in 2012, showing Spoonevous LTE $29,162, by Hes A Peptospoonful, and as a Limited Non-Pro in 2015 on Caticus LTE $6,131, by WR This Cats Smart. Fifty Shadz Of Rey was bred by Iron Rose Ranch, Carbondale, Colo., out of Spookys Cash LTE $284,313, dam of earners of $710,313, including successful 2020 freshman sire Reyzin The Cash LTE $274,376.