NCHA Non-Pro Derby<\/a> on Sunday, with a 225-point performance. \u201cI wasn\u2019t thinking about the Futurity, I was thinking about showing my horse.”<\/p>\nWhite, who began showing in the youth division when he was 11, with the help of his father, trainer Jon White,\u00a0purchased Wild Hickory Bob in June of his 3-year-old year. \u201cHe was a stud when I got him and he was pretty tough and bowed up,\u201d he noted. \u201cHe\u2019d been through two or three trainers before I got him and he was pretty rough, but he did so many cool things. I cut him a couple of days after I bought him and being a gelding really sweetened and matured him.”<\/p>\n
White earned $17,774 for his Derby win. Wild Hickory Bob now has career earnings of $92,066.<\/p>\n
NCHA Derby Open champion Boyd Rice also had a supporting role in the story behind Wild Hickory Rio. It was Rice who showed that horse\u2019s sire, Bobs Hickory Rio, to win the 2005 NCHA World Championship for owner James Kenney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Twenty-year-old Justin White didn\u2019t rest on his laurels, following his win in the 2007 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity last December on Wild Hickory Bob.<\/p>\n