{"id":8839,"date":"2012-04-06T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2012-04-06T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:39:43","slug":"huntsberger-wins-amateur-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8839","title":{"rendered":"Huntsberger wins Amateur title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mary Kate Huntsberger on My Lil Lucky Duck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mary Kate Huntsberger, Paso Robles, Calif., came into the NCHA Super Stakes Amateur Finals on a 217-point high note from the go-round and rode out with a 218-point championship win.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought it was unusual, when I walked into the herd, that he nickered twice,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Huntsberger of her mount My Lil Lucky Duck, on Finals night. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He nickered when I got to Scott Weis, my corner help, and then as soon as I headed to my first cow.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought, oh boy, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s either a good thing or a bad thing.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember much about the first cow, other than it went a little fast. On the second cow, I over-rode him a smidgen to the left and threw my hand down, but he was just like, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got this. And he sucked back on his rear and did what he needed to do.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The same thing on the third cow. I just popped it out there and he did what he knows how to do–crawl on his belly and stop. He gives 110 percent every time. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask for more.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\"Mary<\/a>Huntsberger, 28, began showing when she was nine, and later took six year off to attend beauty school and establish clientele for her hair salon in Paso Robles. Her husband Brian, who also cuts on a weekend basis, is a farrier.<\/p>\n

My Lil Lucky Duck, by Blue Duck Okie out of a Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hickory daughter, was raised by San Juan Ranch. Huntsberger purchased the gelding from her good friend Jennifer Westfall, who runs the San Juan breeding program. Westfall had purchased him out of the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sale and put him in training with Luke Neubert, also of Paso Robles. Huntsberger purchased My Lil Lucky Duck, her first limited age event mount, last July.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been extremely consistent and tries hard every time,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Huntsberger, who won the non-pro championship of the El Rancho Futurity in her first show aboard My Lil Lucky Duck. Most recently the duo claimed reserve in the non-pro gelding division of the PCCHA Derby, and also placed sixth in the non-pro division.<\/p>\n

Troy Randolph and homebred Cee Sophi Kat, by Sophisticated Catt, scored 217 points for the reserve championship.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good-minded and a hard stopper that has a good look on a cow,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Randolph, Lubbock, Tex., who took up cutting in 1996, when he retired from Smith Barney brokerage firm and acquired Little Billie Smart, a palomino and dam of three 2012 four-year-old money earners, including Cee Sophi Kat.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Paul Hansma has worked with all three of them and I owe him a lot of success since we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been in his barn,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Randolph.<\/p>\n

Read more in the Daily Chatter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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