{"id":16399,"date":"2019-06-29T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T19:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=16399"},"modified":"2019-06-29T14:10:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T19:10:43","slug":"kathy-sokol-tops-5000-novice-non-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=16399","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Sokol tops $5,000 Novice Non-Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bet-On-Finale.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bet-On-Finale.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Bet-On-Finale-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Kathy Sokol on Bet On Finale. Ted Petit Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathy Sokol, Seville, Fla., scored 215 points on Bet On\nFinale to win the NCHA Transwest Western Nationals $5,000 Novice Non-Pro\nchampionship on Saturday, the final day of the event. Nicole Pietrafeso,\nElbert, Colo., was reserve champion with 214 points on Suen Or Lator, while Janice\nEaton and Denise Seiz tied for third with 213.5 points, riding Justa Lil\nCatfight and Willie J Rey, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathy Sokol, the NCHA earner of $185,429, and Bet On Finale\nLTE $50,000 have a solid history of success in both limited age events and in\nNCHA Nationals competition. Sokol first showed her Bet Hesa Cat daughter to\nplace in the 2015 NCHA Futurity Non-Pro Limited Finals and went on to win the\n2016 Southern Futurity Non-Pro Limited and place in the Non-Pro finals. In\n2017, the pair took reserve in the NCHA Eastern Nationals $25,000 Novice\nNon-Pro, and earlier this year, they were finalists in the NCHA Eastern\nNationals $5,000 Novice Non-Pro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Suen-Or-Later.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Suen-Or-Later.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Suen-Or-Later-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Nicole Pietrafeso on Suen Or Lator. Ted Petit Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicole Pietrafeso, the NCHA earner of $82,405, placed\nseventh in last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NCHA Western Nationals Non-Pro Finals riding Purely\nBadger LTE $102,535, by Reys Dual Badger, who also carried her as Senior Youth\nchampion at the NCHA Scottsdale Nationals in 2017. Altogether, Pietrafeso has\nshown Purely Badger as a finalist in six NCHA Western Nationals event finals,\nas well as in the NCHA $50,000 Amateur World Finals, in 2016, and the NCHA\nSenior Youth World Finals. Last year, Pietrafeso was a finalist in the NCHA\nDerby Amateur aboard A Fancy Blu Boon, by Once In A Blu Boon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Janice Eaton, the NCHA earner of $322,815, has earned eleven\nmajor western futurity titles and placed in many more limited age events. Her official\nshow record goes back to 2002, when she won the NCHA Western Nationals $2,000\nLimited Rider riding Pinch Of Doc LTE $78,797, by Doc Freckles Leo. Justa Lil\nCatfight LTE $83,961, her mount in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Western Nationals $5,000 Novice\nNon-Pro, is a 7-year-old daughter of High Brow Cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denise Seiz, the NCHA earner of $283,122, has also been a\nsuccessful limited age competitor. Earlier this year, she and Willie J Rey LTE\n$68,203, by Dual Rey, placed fifth in the Ike Hamilton Futurity 5\/6 Amateur\nFinals. Seiz bred Willie J Rey out of Cat Black I LTE $208,229, who she showed\nto win the 2013 NCHA Super Stakes Classic Amateur championship, as well as the\n2017 West Texas Championship Non-Pro title. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Sokol, Seville, Fla., scored 215 points on Bet On Finale to win the NCHA&#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-16399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399","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=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16402,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions\/16402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}