From NCHA’s Daily Chatter
Gail Hooper, Decatur, AL, took the lead in Non-Pro competition with 218.5 points yesterday, on homegrown Tummys Little Gun.

“We got all the cows we had talked about,” said Hooper. “It just went too fast. I wanted to stay out there longer.”

Hooper showed her Playgun daughter early in the last set of the day. On Tuesday, she scored 215 points on Skys Stylish Girl, also bred by Hooper and her husband, James.

Tummys Little Gun is out of Oaks Tummy Tucker, a Doc’s Oak daughter that Hooper showed as non-pro reserve champion of the NCHA Super Stakes Classic. “I think she’s better than her mother,” said Hooper. “She’s so powerful.”

Austin Shepard trained the mare, whose 5-year-old half-sister, Tummys Little Cat, carried Hooper as non-pro champion of the 2006 Brazos Bash, and reserve champion of the 2006 Cotton Stakes and Music City Futurity.

Read more stories from the NCI Building Systems NCHA Futurity in today’s Daily Chatter, edited by Sally Harrison.