{"id":18764,"date":"2021-02-06T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18764"},"modified":"2021-02-06T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:25:59","slug":"cade-shepard-claims-fifth-ike-non-pro-derby-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18764","title":{"rendered":"Cade Shepard claims fifth Ike Non-Pro Derby championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"97\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ikelogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17331\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Riding Skeeter Pop, by Kit Kat Sugar, Cade Shepard scored 223 points to win the 2021 Ike Hamilton Non-Pro Derby, on Friday, February 5. It was the fifth Ike Hamilton championship win for the 19-year-old Summerdale, Alabama youth, who claimed his first in the 2015 Non-Pro Limited showing Twistful Thinking LTE $280,813, the mare he would also show to win the 2017 Ike Non-Pro Classic, and who his father, Austin Shepard, would show to win the Ike Open that same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shepard, the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $885,755, won both the 2018 Ike Non-Pro \u00c2\u00a0Derby and the 2018 Ike Classic showing homebred Bama Dawg LTE $119,701 and Christy Hughes LTE $177,839, respectively. He also collected Non-Pro reserve championships in 2015 with Twistful Thinking, and in 2016 on Christy Hughes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his $11,529 winner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s share of the Non-Pro Derby purse, Shepard also collected $2,038, the top payout in the Non-Pro Novice with 440 cumulative points on Skeeter Pop LTE $9,826, and $1,529 for second, with 435 points on A Spot In Bama LTE $5,801, by Bama Cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skeeter Pop, also a Shepard family homebred, earned her first paycheck as a 2020 NCHA Futurity Non-Pro Limited finalist with Cade\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s younger sister, Caylee Shepard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cody Hedlund, Lipan, Tex., the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $1,126,762, scored 216 points on Fancy Meteles LTE $24,578 for the Ike Derby Non-Pro reserve championship and a payout of $8,854. Hedlund and his \u00c2\u00a0Meteles Cat daughter had previously placed seventh in the NCHA Non-Pro Futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hedlund won the 2016 Ike Hamilton Non-Pro Classic on Meteles Cat LTE $433,565; Fancy Meteles is from Meteles Cat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first full crop of foals. Hedlund also won the 2019 Ike Non-Pro Derby with Wood Ya Teles LTE $56,233, by Woody Be Tuff, and the 2019 Ike Non-Pro Classic with Teles One Time LTE $124,016, by One Time Royalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchadella.com\/ike\/index.shtml\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.nchadella.com\/ike\/index.shtml\">2021 Ike Hamilton Derby and Classic<\/a> continues through Sunday, February 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding Skeeter Pop, by Kit Kat Sugar, Cade Shepard scored 223 points to win the 2021 Ike Hamilton Non-Pro Derby, on Friday, February 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18764","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=18764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18767,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18764\/revisions\/18767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}