{"id":972,"date":"2009-01-30T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2009-01-30T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:32:59","slug":"2009-augusta-classic-open-and-non-pro-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"2009 Augusta Classic Open and Non Pro champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grandpaws Playgirl takes open championship<\/strong>
\nGrandpaws Playgirl and Brett Davis came off of a 220-point win in the second go-round of the Augusta Classic to claim the open championship<\/a> with 223 points on Thursday, January 29, in Augusta, GA.<\/p>\n

Keechi Pep, ridden by Matt Gaines for Billy Martin, was reserve to Grandpaws Playgirl with 219 points. High Brow CD, last year’s Augusta Futurity co-champion, 2008 NCHA Horse of the Year, \u00a0and this year’s Classic first go-round winner with 225 points, finished eighth with 214 points, under Austin Shepard.<\/p>\n

Davis had to make up ground in the second go-round to cover his 212 point score from the first. “I couldn’t take any chances and mess up,” said Davis, who rides 5-year-old Grandpaws Playgirl, by Wise Play, for her breeder, Leon Lewis, Carthage, TX.<\/p>\n

The $29,312 prize was the biggest of Grandpaws Playgirl’s career. Last year, also under Davis, she placed eighth in the Music City Futurity, and was a finalist in the Tunica and the Southern Futurities.<\/p>\n

This was the first Augusta championship win for Davis, 46, who has twice earned a reserve title there – in 1992 on Playboys Remedy and in 1994 on Smokes Two D Two.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Queen wins third title<\/strong>
\nElizabeth Queen had both barrels loaded in the Non-Pro Classic<\/a>. Her mounts, Bubble Gum, who carried her to win last year’s Augusta Non-Pro Futurity, and Jazzy Touche, also a 2008 finalist,\u00a0had qualified among the go-round leaders coming into last night’s finals. But it was Jazzy Touche who carried Queen for a 223-point victory and the $17,910 winner’s check.<\/p>\n

Mike Bowman took reserve with 218 points on San Tule Uno, the 2008 Augusta Futurity Amateur champion under Mike’s wife, Libby Bowman. George Moore placed third riding BSR Cat.<\/p>\n

Sired by Smart Lil Ricochet, 5-year-old Jazzy Touche was bred by Jerry Sharp, Seymour, TN, and made her 2008 debut as a finalist with Queen in the Abilene Spectacular. She finished fifth in the 2008 Augusta Futurity Non-Pro; was third in the 2008 Cotton Stakes Non-Pro; and early this year, was a non-pro finalist in the Abilene Spectacular Classic.<\/p>\n

In addition to her wins with Bubble Gum and Jazzy Touche, Queen also captured the non-pro championship of the 1998 Augusta Futurity.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for complete results and breeding of 2009 Augusta Classic finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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