{"id":330,"date":"2007-10-31T17:26:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2007-10-31T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T22:34:30","slug":"david-mcdavid-to-sponsor-futurity-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"David McDavid to sponsor Futurity show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/mcdavid_david_20040603.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>As an auto dealer, David McDavid became familiar to millions of viewers across Texas with his fondly remembered commercials featuring a big dog named Widetrack. You can still hear Widetrack&#8217;s bark <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdavid.com\" title=\"McDavid Auto Group\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid and his wife, Stacie, have also been avid cutters for years. They own the leading freshman cutting sire Hes A Peptospoonful and 4-year-old The Silver Spoon, one of the top money earners from Hes A Peptospoonsful&#8217;s first crop.<\/p>\n<p>Now McDavid&#8217;s cutting and television threads are coming together in December as he sponsors a live telecast of the $4 million NCI Building Systems NCHA Futurity. The three-hour program will be available to more than 28 million homes via RFD-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting the sport of cutting is nothing new to McDavid, a former owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Back in 1995, as part of a customer appreciation event for one of his dealerships, he brought 600 people who knew nothing about the sport to the NCHA Summer Spectacular,\u00a0 gave them a mini-seminar with a AAA judge, and watched them have the time of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The new fans got to meet Hall of Fame riders, the &#8220;Dirk Nowitzkis\u00a0of the cutting world.&#8221; They quizzed experts, watched videos during cattle changes, and came away with an appreciation of a sport they&#8217;d known nothing about. One participant said she was going to trade in her new McDavid automobile and buy a horse.<\/p>\n<p>Multiply that kind of response by 28 million households, and cutting could really be in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an auto dealer, David McDavid became familiar to millions of viewers across Texas with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting","category-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}