{"id":10150,"date":"2013-04-20T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2013-04-21T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T14:26:40","slug":"riddle-and-mean-girl-take-ltd-non-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=10150","title":{"rendered":"Havey Riddle and Mean Girl take Ltd Non-Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Havey Riddle on Mean Girl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Havey Riddle and homegrown Mean Girl trumped competition in the NCHA Super Stakes Non-Pro Limited Finals on Friday, with a 220-point win.<\/p>\n

Kelsey Weeks claimed the reserve championship with 217 points on GC Counting On Kitty and placed third with 213.5 points on Brittney Rey.<\/p>\n

“My mare couldn’t have been any better,” said Riddle of the Cat Ichi <\/a>daughter who carried her as a non-pro limited finalist at the NCHA Futurity. Mean Girl was also a 2013 Arbuckle Mountain Futurity finalist with her trainer and breeder, Bill Riddle, Havey’s father.<\/p>\n

“When you raise the kid and you raise the horse, it’s pretty special,” said Bill Riddle, NCHA Hall of Fame rider and NCHA Members Hall of Fame honoree.<\/p>\n

“The last show I won here was the Scholarship Cutting,” said Havey, who also qualified with Mean Girl for the Super Stakes Non-Pro Finals. “Things have changed a lot since then.”<\/p>\n

Riddle, 30, won the NCHA Senior Youth Scholarship Cutting in 1999 on Dual Reward and again in 2001, on Stylish And Foxie.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, following the Non-Pro Finals, Havey and NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame rider Kyle Manion are bound for the Caribbean, where they will be married on April 27.<\/p>\n

Mean Girl is descended from the Riddle family’s equine matriarch Clarks Little Fanny, dam of Cowstruck, producer of 11 NCHA earners of $545,000, including Im Catman, 2010 NCHA Super Stakes Open Gelding and Novice champion.<\/p>\n

The wide gap between Kelsey Weeks’ reserve championship score of 217 points on GS Counting On Kitty, by Im Countin Checks, and her third-place mark of 213.5 points aboard Brittney Rey, by TR Dual Rey, reflected the mettle of Friday’s cattle.<\/p>\n

“I knew everybody had been having tough luck and I just wanted to be clean,” said Kelsey, 23, who won the 2012 Super Stakes Amateur Classic with Holidayware, as well as the 2011 NCHA\u00c2\u00a0 Futurity Amateur on One Sweet Sis.<\/p>\n

“This mare is so consistent and easy to ride,” said Weeks of GS Counting On Kitty. “She’s super smart and honest, and always right there at a cow’s head.”<\/p>\n

Weeks purchased GS Counting On Kitty, trained by Kenny Miller, last July from the mare’s breeder, Gordon Seving.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to show her in the small futurities,” Weeks explained. “I did really well on her and so did my trainer, Kathy Daughn.”<\/p>\n

GS Counting On Kitty was reserve champion of the 2012 Cotton Stakes Futurity with Daughn, as well as reserve champion of the Brazos Bash Non-Pro Futurity under Weeks.<\/p>\n

This past February, Weeks and GS Counting On Kitty won the Tunica Non-Pro Futurity, as well as the Tunica Futurity Non-Pro Ltd, and placed sixth in the Bonanza Non-Pro Futurity in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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