{"id":19236,"date":"2021-04-16T21:12:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T02:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=19236"},"modified":"2021-04-16T21:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T02:13:51","slug":"brandon-westfall-claims-4-year-old-non-pro-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=19236","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Westfall claims 4-Year-Old Non-Pro championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Brandon Westfall on Fiddle And Steel. Suzanne Sylvester photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Reigning NCHA Futurity Non-Pro champion Brandon Westfall<\/a> scored 225.5 points aboard Fiddle And Steel on Friday, April 16, to win $40,200 and claim the 4-Year-Old Super Stakes Non-Pro championship and is on track for a possible Non-Pro Triple Crown sweep with the 2021 NCHA Derby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Quirk, Denham Spring, La., posted 224 points to earn the reserve championship and $35,330, on Cinca Cat, while Verlie Doing, Jacksboro, Tex., placed third for $30,460, riding Reydneck Woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brandon Westfall, the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of $704,166, also showed Fiddle And Steel LTE $85,838, by Metallic Cat, earlier this year as Non-Pro Champion of the Cattlemen’s Derby and as an Open finalist in the Arbuckle Mountain Futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bred and owned by his parents, Russ and Janet Westfall, Granbury, Tex., Fiddle And Steel is from a long line of Westfall-bred champions. His dam Lil Bit Reckless LTE $231,124, shown by both Russ Westfall, in Open competition, and Janet Westfall, in Non-Pro, is by CD Royal, who Janet showed as reserve champion of the 2000 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity, the same year that Brandon was born. CD Royal has gone on to produce earners of over $3.7 million and build a dynasty of winners for the Westfall family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although this Is Brandon Westfall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first Super Stakes win, he claimed the Non-Pro Super Stakes reserve championship in 2017 aboard the CD Royal daughter Laguna Girl LTE $110,428, who he also showed to place third in the 2018 Super Stakes Non-Pro Classic. In addition, Brandon Westfall is one of just three riders to have won back-to-back NCHA Futurity Non-Pro championships.  He rode I Reckon So LTE $81,799, by Kit Kat Sugar out of the CD Royal daughter Just As Reckless LTE $184,285 to win the 2019 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity and Fiddle And Steel in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Quirk, the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Famer earner of $1,172,279, is also a two-time NCHA Non-Pro World Champion and an NCHA Non-Pro World Finals champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to their Super Stakes Non-Pro reserve championship earnings, Quirk and Cinca Cat also earned first-place payout in the Non-Pro Novice division.  Bred by Rocking P Ranch, High Brow Cat daughter Cinca Cat LTE $46,982 is the first money earner out of of Cinca Im Hot LTE $259,169, by Spots Hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verlie Doing, the NCHA earner of $60,661, claimed three payouts with Reydneck Woman during the 2021 NCHA Super Stakes. In addition to $30,460 for third place in the Non-Pro Finals, Doing also placed third for $8,540 in the Intermediate Non-Pro Finals and collected $3,288 for second in the Non-Pro Novice division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Verlie Doing won the Southern Futurity 4-Year-Old Non-Pro championship on Candy Man LTE $76,604, by Kit Kat Sugar, and in 2019 won the Brazos Bash 4-Year-Old Limited Non-Pro on Secreytariat LTE $96,747, by Sigala Rey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reydneck Woman LTE $49,306, by Reyzin The Cash, was bred by Skip and Elizabeth Queen out of Xquizit Cat LTE $13,434, the dam of Redneck Creyzy LTE $148,192, NCHA Unlimited Amateur champion of the 2017 NCHA Futurity and the 2018 NCHA Super Stakes under Rocky Davis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reigning NCHA Futurity Non-Pro champion Brandon Westfall won the Super Stakes Non-Pro championship aboard Fiddle And Steel on April 16, staying on track for a Non-Pro Triple Crown sweep with the 2021 NCHA Derby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19236","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\/19236","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=19236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19240,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19236\/revisions\/19240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}