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Forget Harry Winston, jeweler to the stars. Stephanie Haymes-Roven will walk down the red carpet at tonight’s Academy Awards wearing the bejeweled western buckle she won Saturday, as 2008 NCHA World Champion non-pro cutting competitor.<\/p>\nForget Harry Winston, jeweler to the stars. Stephanie Haymes-Roven will walk down the red carpet at tonight’s Academy Awards wearing the bejeweled western buckle she won Saturday, as 2008 NCHA World Champion non-pro cutting competitor.<\/p>\n
“I’ll find something special to wear it with,” said Haymes-Roven, who will attend the gala with her husband, Chuck Roven, producer of eight-times nominated blockbuster The Dark Knight<\/em>. It was Chuck’s gelding, A Smart Little Rey, that carried Haymes-Roven to a 229-point World Finals <\/a>victory.<\/p>\n It was a year-long duel for Haymes-Roven, who was in third place going into the World Finals, behind Candace Barwick on two-time open world champion Dual Rey Me, and seven-time non-pro world champion Mary Jo Milner. In her quest for the title, Haymes-Roven traveled to 104 cutting shows and earned over $82,000. The only “out-of-saddle” time she allowed herself was when she accompanied Chuck on a worldwide publicity junket for The Dark Knight<\/em>.<\/p>\n “It’s been a tremendous experience,” said Haymes-Roven. “But this year I am looking forward to Chuck and I being able to go to shows together. He has been so supportive and understanding through all of this.”<\/p>\n Haymes-Roven, daughter of Big Band-era singing star Dick Haymes, was introduced to cutting 15 years ago, when she was married to songwriter and Elton John collaborator Bernie Taupin. She has earned nearly $500,000 as a cutting competitor.<\/p>\n Chuck Roven won two major cutting shows as an amateur rider aboard A Smart Little Rey. The 9-year-old gelding, sired by Dual Rey and trained by Gary Gonsalves, also carried Megan Madgwick to win the 2007 NCHA Senior Youth World Finals.<\/p>\n Incidentally, 2008 Academy Awards host Hugh Jackman, spent time in Texas with cutting horse trainer and fellow Aussie Roger Wagner, to prepare for his role in the 2008 film Australia.<\/em> Click here <\/a>for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Forget Harry Winston, jeweler to the stars. Stephanie Haymes-Roven will walk down the red carpet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2009\/rovens_acadmey_awards.jpg\")
“It was one of the happiest days of my life,” said Haymes-Roven, who accepted her award in Amarillo, Texas, with Chuck at her side. “Now I get to cheer for Chuck’s movie.”<\/p>\n