{"id":16059,"date":"2019-03-15T19:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T00:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=16059"},"modified":"2019-03-15T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T00:53:56","slug":"cade-shepard-claims-ncha-eastern-nationals-non-pro-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=16059","title":{"rendered":"Cade Shepard claims NCHA Eastern Nationals Non-Pro championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chexy-louella.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chexy-louella.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chexy-louella-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Cade Shepard on Chexy Louella. Seth Petit Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The NCHA Eastern National Championships concluded in\nJackson, Miss., on Friday, March 15, with the Non-Pro Finals, won by Cade\nShepard with 222 points on Chexy Louella, the mare Shepard also showed to win\nthe 2018 NCHA Futurity Non-Pro championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight years ago, Cade Shepard, Summerdale, Ala., was named the\n2011 NCHA Junior Youth Rookie of the Year. In 2016, he was inducted into the\nNCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame, and currently has NCHA earnings of over $786,000. In\naddition to the NCHA Futurity win, his impressive list of Non-Pro championships,\nsome of which he has won multiple times, and in both 4 and 5\/6-year-old divisions,\nincludes the NCHA Super Stakes, the NCHA Derby, the PCCHA Derby, the Ike\nHamilton Futurity, the Southern Futurity, the Cotton Stakes, the Augusta\nFuturity, and the Breeders Invitational. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cade\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mount, Chexy Louella LTE $59,721, by Im Countin Checks, was bred by Oxbow Ranch and is the first money earner out of Louellas Cat LTE $302,483, by High Brow Cat, and a full sister to Cattalou $306,149, winner of the 2014 Breeders Invitational Open.  Chexy Louella was a $30,000 purchase as a yearling at the Western Bloodstock NCHA Futurity Sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"376\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Legal-Dream.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Legal-Dream.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Legal-Dream-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Blake Graham on Legal Dream. Seth Petit Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Blake Graham, Rockledge, Ga., earned the NCHA Eastern\nNationals Non-Pro reserve championship with 217.5 points riding Legal Dream,\nwhile Colt Moore, Williston, Fla., placed third with 217 points aboard\nCatscratch Sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blake Graham was Amateur reserve champion of the 2016 NCHA\nFuturity on Zacks Smoothie, and also showed the Smooth As A Cat daughter to win\nthe 2017 Augusta Amateur Unlimited Futurity. He showed Legal Dream in 2017, as\nwell, to take win the NCHA Eastern Nationals Non-Pro reserve championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourteen-year-old Legal Dream LTE $181,028, by Dual Rey, has\ncarried Graham as a finalist in 11 divisions of the Eastern Nationals, over\nfour years, including in 2015, when Graham was Junior Youth reserve champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colt Moore, Williston, Fla., third- placed with 217 points aboard\nCatscratch Sister LTE $132,187, won the Eastern Nationals Senior Youth\nchampionship, last weekend, riding the 10-year-old WR This Cats Smart daughter.\nMoore and Catscratch Sister also claimed the 2016 Senior Youth championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moore, the 2009 NCHA Junior Youth Rookie of the Year, is the\nNCHA earner of $74,297. He won the 2015 Eastern Nationals riding Highwood\nDancer LTE $74,122, and placed third in the same division last year on\nCatscratch Sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCHA Eastern National Championships concluded in Jackson, Miss., on Friday, March 15, with the&#8230;<\/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-16059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059","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=16059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16066,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059\/revisions\/16066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}