{"id":358,"date":"2007-12-13T00:58:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T05:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:02:18","slug":"358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Cowan tops Amateur go-rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

From NCHA’s Daily Chatter<\/a><\/em>
\nMichelle Cowan, who won this year’s NRCHA Non-Pro Snaffle Bit Futurity, leads Amateur contenders coming into today’s Semi-Finals with an aggregate score of 434 points on Kitty Cats Mirage.<\/p>\n

Philip Layne, winner of the Non-Pro Limited on Dual Ya Scoot, is second to Cowan with 430 on his Smart Lil Scoot son.<\/p>\n

Both Cowan and Layne are also Non-Pro Semi-Finalists, Cowan on Hez Neon Blue, and Layne on Dual Ya Scoot.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t ridden her very much,” said Cowan of Kitty Cats Mirage, a High Brow Cat daughter that she purchased as a yearling in the NCHA Super Stakes Sales. “She was my husband’s (Non-Pro) horse, but he didn’t advance in the second go-round, so we put her in my other mare’s slot because (Kitty Cats Mirage) is a little more solid.<\/p>\n

Cowan’s husband, Bill, trained the mare; Michelle rode her to win the first go-round with 219 points.<\/p>\n

“I give Bill all the credit on the mare,” said Cowan. “I was just the jockey.”<\/p>\n

Cowan was also a first go-round leader with 216 points on Hez Neon Blue, who she recently purchased from Sean Flynn. Cowan lost a cow in the second round \u2014 the gelding’s sixth time to be shown in seven days.<\/p>\n

“He’s really a nice solid horse,” said Cowan of the blue-eyed gelding that she shows in today’s third (Non-Pro) set. “He’s got a lot of stop and he’s real sweepy across a cow.”<\/p>\n

Cowan won the Non-Pro Snaffle Bit Futurity on a Shining Spark daughter that she bred and raised herself.<\/p>\n

“I got into cutting because I was trying to get my cutting better for snaffle bit,” said Cowan. “We got into the sport and just started loving it.”<\/p>\n

Read more stories from the NCI Building Systems NCHA Futurity in today’s Daily Chatter<\/em><\/a>, edited by Sally Harrison<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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