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The NCHA Futurity, in its third and final week, is drawing down to the Non-Pro Semi-Finals and Finals on Thursday, Dec. 10 and 11, followed by the Open Semi-Finals and Finals on Dec 12 and 13. Here is a breakdown of Open Semi-Finalists and a few other notes of interest:<\/p>\n
Jojo Boon<\/strong> (pictured), by Peptoboonsmal, won the Open Limited championship and $23,686 tonight with 222 points under Geoffrey Sheehan for the mare’s breeder, Hope Mitchell.<\/p>\n Shes Twice As Smooth<\/strong>, ridden by Tatum Rice for Bill and Lisa Hefley, <\/strong>earned $20,939 as reserve champion of the Open Limited with 220 points. The Smooth As A Cat daughter is a full sister, out of Dually Lil Pep, by Dual Pep, to Smooth Going Cat<\/strong>, who is tied with 436.5, the highest cumulative score from the go-rounds, ridden by Matt Miller for Tommy Manion.<\/p>\n The Hefleys bred the mares, the only full siblings to qualify for the Semi-Finals,\u00a0and have a full sister entered in Saturday’s Invitational Yearling Sale.<\/p>\n Open Semi-Finalists – 72 Dam’s sires with 3 or more semi-finalists (number of semi-finalists): The 72 Open Semi-Finalists are the offspring of 28 sires<\/strong> and progeny of 41 dam’s sires<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Two horses qualified for both the Open and the Non-Pro Semi-Finals: Arosesuchaclatter<\/strong>, by Smooth As A Cat, shown by Amando Costa Neto in the Non-Pro and ridden in the Open by Bart Nichols; and Falcon Feather<\/strong>, by Cats Red Feather, shown by Megan Miller in the Non-Pro and ridden by Tyler Merrill in the Open. Both earned money in Tuesday night’s John Deere Division finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NCHA Futurity, in its third and final week, is drawing down to the Non-Pro…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Sires with 2 or more semi-finalists (number of semi-finalists):
\nHigh Brow Cat<\/strong> (15); Dual Rey<\/strong> (11); Peptoboonsmal <\/strong>(7); Smooth As A Cat<\/strong> (7); Smart Little Lena<\/strong> (4)<\/p>\n
\nDual Pep<\/strong> (6); High Brow Cat<\/strong> (6); Peppy San Badger<\/strong> (5); Grays Starlight<\/strong> (4); Playgun <\/strong>(4); Smart Little Lena<\/strong> 4); CD Olena<\/strong> (3); Docs Stylish Oak<\/strong> (3)<\/p>\n