{"id":18853,"date":"2021-03-07T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18853"},"modified":"2021-03-07T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T14:26:04","slug":"5k-novice-champion-is-justa-girl-named-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18853","title":{"rendered":"$5K Novice Champion is Justa Girl Named Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Justa
Justa Girl Named Sue, ridden by Todd Gann. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Justa Girl Named Sue, ridden by Todd Gann, scored 222 points in Jackson, Miss. on Saturday, March 6, to win the NCHA Eastern Nationals $5,000 Novice championship. Kinky Bootz LTE $83,474 earned the reserve championship with 220.5 points under Austin Shepard, and Dontt Say A Word, shown by Bill Pierce, placed third with 219.5 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owned by Jimmy Spriggs, Crossville, Tenn., 5-year-old Justa Girl Named Sue was shown by Beau Galyean as a finalist in the PCCHA 3-Year-Old Futurity for Ellen Carter, Dallas, Tex., and Rodrigo Taboga showed the mare as a finalist in six 2020 Open limited age events. Spriggs acquired Justa Girl Named Sue from Carter in December 2020; this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NCHA Eastern Nationals finals performance is her first under Gann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justa Girl Named Sue, by Metallic Cat, was bred by Alvin and Becky Fults out of the Spots Hot daughter Some Like It Hott LTE $183,383, and is a full sister to Some Likeit Metallic LTE $108,019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Todd  Gann is the NCHA Hall of Fame earner of over $1.35 million. He won the 2008 NCHA Eastern Open championship on High Steppin Cat LTE $296,553, and was Open reserve champion in 2004 and 2002 on Little Beau Squeak LTE $50,676 and Miss Genuine Ote LTE $67,544, respectively. He was also reserve champion of the 1994 Eastern Nationals $5,000 Novice on Lenas Lucinda LTE $151,283.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kinky
Kinky Bootz, ridden by Austin Shepard. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kinky Bootz, owned and bred by Glenn Drake, Weatherford, Tex., came to Jackson following a co-championship performance in the Arbuckle Mountain 5\/6 Open with Shepard, who also showed Kinky Bootz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s co-champion Bama Jelly LTE $228,543, by Bamacat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sired by Dual Rey, 5-year-old Kinky Bootz is the first money earner out of Sheza Stylish Cougar LTE $57,040. In 2020, Kinky Bootz and Shepard captured wins in the 4-year-old finals of the Augusta Futurity, the Arbuckle Mountain Futurity, and the Southern Futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin Shepard, the NCHA Hall of Fame earner of over $8.5 million and a many-times champion at Jackson, won the 2020 NCHA Eastern Open on Bama Jelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dontt Say A Word LTE $33,951, owned by Don McGraw, Canton, Miss., is a 7-year-old High Brow Cat daughter bred by Waco Bend Ranch out of the High Brow Cat daughter Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Look Twice LTE $824,546, the dam of earners of $713,067.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a 3-year-old, Dontt Say A Word was a 2017 Brazos Bash Open finalist under Phil Rapp, then won the 2018 Augusta Futurity 4-Year-Old Non-Pro with Ray Baldwin. Don McGraw showed her as reserve champion of the 2020 Cotton Stakes 5\/6 Amateur Intermediate and was also a finalist in last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NCHA Eastern Nationals $5,000 Non-Pro Novice, where Pierce placed eighth on her in the $5,000 Novice. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill Pierce, the NCHA earner of $1,161,375, and many-times NCHA Eastern Nationals finalist, won last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s $25,000 Novice on Looks Halreycious LTE $119,044 and the 2019 $5,000 on Dual Smart Smart Dee Jay LTE $58,865. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCHA Eastern National Championships Present by 6666 Ranch <\/a>continue through March 13, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justa Girl Named Sue, ridden by Todd Gann, scored 222 points in Jackson, Miss. on Saturday, March 6, to win the NCHA Eastern Nationals $5,000 Novice championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18853","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\/18853","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=18853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18856,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions\/18856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}