{"id":14424,"date":"2017-12-09T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=14424"},"modified":"2017-12-09T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T21:05:40","slug":"sweet-win-for-bushaw-and-bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=14424","title":{"rendered":"Sweet win for Bushaw and Bittersweet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chad Bushaw on Bittersweet. Hart Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chad Bushaw owned the night, Friday, December 8, with a 225-point championship performance on Bittersweet, by Metallic Cat, in the 2017 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity. Brandon Westfall on Smooth Lil Cowtown, by Smooth As A Cat, took reserve with 221 points, and Cody Hedlund placed third with 220 points on Iggy Reyzalea, by Dual Smart Rey.<\/p>\n

This was the second NCHA Non-Pro Futurity championship title for Bushaw, an NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $3,259,465. He won the 2001 Non-Pro Futurity on Jerryoes LTE $252,780, and has been a finalist eight other times. His first NCHA Futurity success came as a finalist in the 1991 Amateur, when he was 18. Friday evening, his son, Charles Russell Bushaw, 14, was a finalist in the NCHA Futurity Unlimited Amateur Finals.<\/p>\n

In addition to the NCHA Futurity, Bushaw has also won the NCHA Super Stakes (2008 on Cats Ruby) and the NCHA Derby (2012 on Bet On A Cat), and was reserve champion of the 2007 NCHA Super Stakes on Mocha Cappuccino.<\/p>\n

Bittersweet, out of Miss Sea Rey, by Dual Rey, was bred by Marilyn Jo Franz and is a full sister to three other NCHA money earners out of Miss Sea Rey LTE $31,890, by Dual Rey. Bittersweet and Bushaw also won Thursday\u2019s NCHA Futurity Non-Pro Semi-Finals with 219 points.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Westfall on Smooth Lil Cowtown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brandon Westfall, 17, Los Olivos, Calif., was also a finalist in the 2017 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity on Reckelle, by Metallic Cat. Smooth Lil Cowtown, his reserve champion mount, is out of Sweet Lil Cowtown LTE $74,422, a half-sister to Smooth As A Twist LTE $143,431 and will be shown by his father, Russ Westfall in the Open Semi-Finals.<\/p>\n

Westfall, the NCHA earner of $303,799, was a 2016 NCHA Futurity Limited Non-Pro finalist aboard Big And Reckless LTE $13,173, by CD Royal, the stallion owned and shown by his mother, Janet Westfall, as reserve champion of the 2000 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity. Brandon was also reserve champion of the 2017 NCHA Super Stakes riding Laguna Girl LTE $59,119, by CD Royal, and a 2017 NCHA Derby Non-Pro finalist on Lil Dusty Lucy LTE $27,666, by CD Royal.<\/p>\n

Cody Hedlund, Lipan, Tex., is an NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $763,122. He placed fifth in the 2014 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity riding Strey Cat, by Smooth As A Cat, and fifth in the 2005 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity on Teles Bout This Cat LTE $230,047, the dam of Iggy Reyzalea, his 2017 Futurity mount.<\/p>\n

Hedlund had also been a 2013 NCHA Futurity Non-Pro finalist with Meteles Cat LTE $433,565, by Metallic Cat, who he showed as Reserve Non-Pro Champion of the 2014 NCHA Super Stakes and Reserve Non-Pro Champion of the 2016 NCHA Classic Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chad Bushaw owned the night, Friday, December 8, with a 225-point championship performance on Bittersweet,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424","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=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14434,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions\/14434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}