{"id":8826,"date":"2012-04-05T08:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2012-04-05T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:15:18","slug":"8826","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8826","title":{"rendered":"Weeks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 day in Amateur Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kelsey<\/a>
Kelsey Weeks on Holidayware.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Working last in the first set of cattle in the NCHA Super Stakes Classic Rios of Mercedes Amateur finals Wednesday night took the pressure off Kelsey Weeks of Cotulla, Texas.<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t actually that nervous because I was last and I didn’t have much hope,” said Weeks, 22. “I knew there were about three cows in there that were fresh and were going to be okay, so I just wanted to cut those three and try to be correct. That was my whole goal.”<\/p>\n

Mission accomplished. Weeks and her 5-year-old WR This Cats Smart mare Holidayware marked 223, which wound up as a 6.5-point winning margin. Larami Stewart of Munday, Texas, was second on Haidas Screamin Cat, by High Brow Cat.<\/p>\n

Bred by Ware Farms, Holidayware is out of the Peptoboonsmal mare Readytoware, a granddaughter of $450,000-producer Sugs Gay Lady.<\/p>\n

\"Kelsey<\/a>Trey Hunt started Holidayware, and made the finals of the Waco Texas Futurity as a 3-year-old. Weeks bought the mare a year ago and was an NCHA Derby Limited Non-Pro finalist on her way to winning the Amateur at the Cotton Stakes.<\/p>\n

Weeks, who won the 2011 NCHA Amateur Futurity with One Sweet Sis, a finalist in Thursday’s Amateur Super Stakes, gives the nod to Holidayware as her favorite.<\/p>\n

“This one is probably my favorite because she’s so quick and she’s got such a hard stop,” said the Tarleton State ag-economics major. “She likes to go fast, and I like to go fast.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s been so much fun. I haven’t shown her very much, but I’ve gotten a check on her almost every time.”<\/p>\n

Reserve champion Larami Stewart, 20, had been a finalist on Haidas Screamin Cat this year at the Abilene Spectacular, Arbuckle Mountain and Cattlemen’s Derby on her way to Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

“I was lucky to get him,” she said. “He’s honest and I can always depend on him.”<\/p>\n

Bred by Justin Shaun Lockwood, Haidas Screamin Cat is by High Brow Cat out of Heavenly Haida, by Haidas Little Pep.<\/p>\n

Norda Berger of Simonton, Texas and Lyle Winter of Muscatine, Iowa both marked 215 to to be co-champions of the Senior division.<\/p>\n

Berger rode High Classed Hottie, a homebred 5-year-old by Spots Hot. Winter rode Ruby Rey, a 6-year-old Dual Rey mare bred by Gray Quarter Horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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