{"id":117,"date":"2006-12-16T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T05:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2006-12-17T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T16:53:33","slug":"heres-a-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which two-time NCHA Futurity Reserve Champion is back in the finals with two mounts in Sunday’s $4 million NCI Building Systems NCHA Futurity?\u00a0Terry Riddle, 59,\u00a0will be riding Spoonful Of Cheerios, a Hes A Peptospoonful x Make O Lena gelding, for Roger Anderson, plus his own mare, DMac Easter Bunny, by Young Gun out of Pretty Bo Bunny.<\/p>\n

In 1976, Riddle marked 222.5 on the great sire-to-be Freckles Playboy to tie for the Reserve Championship at the Futurity with his brother-in-law, Bill Freeman on Doc’s Becky. Colonel Freckles won that year by half a point, ridden by Olan Hightower.<\/p>\n

“I knew Playboy was different before I ever rode him,” Riddle said. “When I was driving and breaking him in the round pen, he’d just drop and turn around. That move was all natural, and that carried on into when I was working him.<\/p>\n

“He was smart and willing, really a good-minded stud. He didn’t have any larceny to him. As a matter of fact, you couldn’t scold him much, because it would just scare him to death.”<\/p>\n

In 1990, Riddle was back for a reserve title on Smart Play, behind Joe Suiter and Millie Montana. Riddle said that Smart Play was not a handsome horse, but he more than made up for it with ability drawn from his sire, Smart Little Lena, and dam, the Playboy mare A Lenaette.<\/p>\n

“He was the ugly duckling in the yearling pen that year, but he looked a lot prettier when I put him behind a cow,” Riddle said. “He acts like he knows what the cows are going to do before they do it. His mama was a real hard-stopping, hard-moving kind of horse, but she was kind of hyper. She didn’t stop to think about everything like he does.”<\/p>\n

Riddle sold Spoonful Of Cheerios to Roger Anderson of Hillsboro, North Dakota, in April. “He’s a thrill a minute,” Riddle said “If anything, he wants to overdo it. You don’t have to ask him anything.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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