{"id":9807,"date":"2013-01-21T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9807"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:42:17","slug":"2013-emerging-breeding-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9807","title":{"rendered":"2013: Emerging breeding trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Foal_standing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9809\" title=\"Foal_standing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Foal_standing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>Contested on the heels of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9803\">NCHA Futurity<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9800\">Abilene Spectacular<\/a> and the Augusta Futurity often serve as bellwethers for annual cutting horse breeding trends. While the Augusta Futurity is in full swing (it began its seven-day run on January 20), I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast some of the data on sires of open and non-pro finalists from the NCHA Futurity and Abilene. Here is some of what I found:<\/p>\n<p>There were a total of 44 finalists in the Abilene Spectacular 4-year-old open and non-pro divisions (31 open; 13 non-pro). The 44 finalists were represented by 24 sires, eight (33 %) of which were first or second-crop sires.<\/p>\n<p>These first and second-crop sires accounted for 11 (25%) of the 44 finalists and include &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>First-crop sires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Hydrive Cat with 2 &#8211; Open Champion Overdrive and SDP Hydriven Hicapoo<\/li>\n<li> Cats Quixote Jack with 2 &#8211; Non-Pro Reserve Champion Lizzard Jack and Jack Boon Cat<\/li>\n<li> High Brow CD with one &#8211; Non-Pro Champion Reyzin<\/li>\n<li> Halreycious with one &#8211; No Way In Hal (open)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Second-crop sires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Autumn Acre with 2 &#8211; Freckles In Autumn (open) and Hillbilly Handfishin (non-Pro)<\/li>\n<li> Atta Cat with one &#8211; Cattapep (non-pro)<\/li>\n<li> Purdy Boy Flash with one &#8211; Flash About (non-pro)<\/li>\n<li> Woody Be Tuff with one &#8211; CR First Tuff (open)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seven of the 23 sires had over 100 foals born in their 2009 foal crops, including first-crop sire Hydrive Cat, with 131 foals. The others were Hes A Peptospoonful (183); Smooth As A Cat (171); One Time Pepto (158); High Brow Cat (157); Peptoboonsmal (133); and Dual Rey (102).<\/p>\n<p>High Brow Cat was the leading sire of finalists with 6, followed by Dual Rey with 5 and One Time Pepto with 4. In addition, 6 of the finalists were sired by sons of High Brow Cat.<\/p>\n<p>Smart Little Lena, Peppy San Badger, and Freckles Playboy predominate, as they have for over a decade, as maternal grandsires of sires, but Doc Quixote also made a stronger appearance through Atta Cat, Cats Quixote Jack, Nitas Wood, Quejanaisalena, Spots Hot, and Woody Be Tuff.<\/p>\n<p>The NCHA Futurity had a total of 62 open (30) and non-pro (32) finalists, represented by 28 sires, seven (11%) of which were first of second-crop sires.<br \/>\nThese first and second-crop sires accounted for 12 (19%) of total finalists &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>First-crop sires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Halreycious with 3 &#8211; Looks Halreycious (open), Hal Ofa Secret (open), and No Way In Hal (open)<\/li>\n<li> Cats Quixote Jack with 2 &#8211; Jack Boon Cat (open) and Ima Studio Cat (open)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Second-crop sires:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Woody Be Tuff with 2 &#8211; Open Champion CR Tuff Hearted Cat and Kittyswood (open)<\/li>\n<li> Boon Too Suen with 2 &#8211; Non-Pro Champion Donas Suen Boon, also an open finalist<\/li>\n<li> Atta Cat with one &#8211; Catta Pep (non-pro)<\/li>\n<li> Autumn Acre with one &#8211; Hillbilly Handfishin (non-pro)<\/li>\n<li> Thomas E Hughes with one &#8211; Especially Thomas (non-pro)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For complete results, with breeding information, from the 2012 NCHA Futurity and the 2013 Abilene Spectacular, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?cat=15\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contested on the heels of the NCHA Futurity, the Abilene Spectacular and the Augusta Futurity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9827,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions\/9827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}