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TODAY***NON-PRO DERBY FINALS*****NON-PRO SENIOR FINALS**

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RUSS DECORDOVA & HYDUALIN CAT RUSS DECORDOVA & HYDUALIN CAT ****** ****** NON-PRO $10K NOVICE DERBY CHAMPIONS NON-PRO $10K NOVICE DERBY CHAMPIONS ************

Hydualin Cat’s week started off with disap-pointment, when the Smooth As A Cat son missed the cutoff for the Derby Open fi nals Tuesday by half a point. But the week got bet-ter when he and Ron-nie Rice won the $10K Novice Open Derby Championship on Wednesday, then hit a career high Friday for owner Russ DeCordo-va when the pair won the top $10K Novice Non-Pro Derby title.DeCordova and his gelding marked a 218 in Ford Truck Arena right after Lauren Crouch and Pretty Girl Cat posted a 217.5 to take Reserve. “I’ve never had a horse have a week like this,” said the cattle company owner whose $18,092 reward yesterday pushed his cutting career earnings to $170,000. The latest victory, combined with his gelding’s win on

Wednesday, catapulted the gelding’s life-time earnings to approximately $40,000. They were $5,000 at the beginning of the week. “Hydualin Cat had a real high score [of 217] in the fi rst go round of the $10,000 Novice Open, so we knew he could do it,” DeCordova said. “And with Ronnie riding him in the Open fi nals, it’s not over yet.”Rice and the gelding out of Hydualin Dolly by Dual Pep will compete today in the Der-by Open fi nals from the 15th slot in the 23-team fi eld. “He’s been a good horse from the get-go,” said Rice, who calls the horse “Rusty,” after DeCordova, his best friend.Drawing eighth out of 10, DeCordova and Hydualin Cat had to cut leftover cattle. “We had a couple of more picked, but those calfs presented themselves well, so we stepped up and cut them,” he ex-plained. “My horse handled them real well. They probably weren’t the best cattle to cut, but that late in the draw, that’s what we did. The run felt really good. He was

running and stopping real hard. The faster they get and the harder they stop, the better he likes it.”The Buffalo, Texas, cutter met Rice when he worked for him in Okla-homa when DeCordova was in high school. Rice was training horses and DeCordova rode colts and cleaned stalls. After Rice moved to Texas, they continued to stay in touch. “We never lost contact; we’ve been real close,” DeCordova said.Cordova, who owns DeCor-dova Cattle Co. in Groesbeck, Texas, purchased Hydualin Cat at the NCHA Futurity sale as a stallion. “We gelded him two

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* * * TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY * * * * * * TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY * * * HOW MANY CATTLE WERE USED HOW MANY CATTLE WERE USED

AT THIS YEAR‛S BREEDER‛S INVITATIONAL?AT THIS YEAR‛S BREEDER‛S INVITATIONAL?Answer on page 6

months before the Futurity, and he’s gotten better and better ever since,” he said. “I’d say he’s peaked now.”The Derby Non Pro $10,000 title is a personal best for DeCordova, who has had victories at Houston and the Abilene Spectacular. “This is the biggest win I’ve ever had,” he said, “without a doubt.”

Lauryn Crouch, whose husband, Al-len, is an accomplished cutting horse trainer, is more comfortable helping her spouse behind the scenes than as a competitor. But with her Reserve in the Derby Non-Pro $10K Novice, that might change. After some tough luck at the NCHA and Augusta Futurities, Lau-ryn’s confi dence in the show pen was a little shaky, but Allen knew she could compete successfully and asked her to enter Pretty Girl Cat in the B.I. “We got her as a yearling, and Allen has trained

her since Day 1,” Lauryn said. The couple lives in Noxapoter, Miss. “He bought her for me last July because he thought we would fi t each other.”She calls the Pretty Boy Cat daugh-ter out of Weekiva Star by Hicko-ryote “Mustang Sally” because the mare was so little when Allen got her, but she had a big mane. After she and the mare made the Derby $10K Novice Non Pro fi nals, Allen told Lauryn to just enjoy herself in the pen, which she did – up to a point. “He told me to go in there and just have fun cutting because I get very nervous,” she recalled. “I cut the fi rst cow my help wanted me to cut and then I turned around and J.B. [McLamb] called a cow to cut, and I didn’t hear what he said. They told me to keep driving up, and I kept telling them to tell me something. Fi-nally at the last second, when I was starting to panic, they told me which cow to cut. I fi nished up on a cow they hadn’t picked for me, but I was very tickled with my horse. She has a really big motor, and is a lot of fun.”

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Lauryn Crouch rode Pretty Girl Cat to the Reserve Championship in the $10K Novice Non-Pro Derby last night.

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KRISTEN GALYEAN & HARLEY EARN LTD. NON-PRO DERBY CHAMPIONSHIPKRISTEN GALYEAN & HARLEY EARN LTD. NON-PRO DERBY CHAMPIONSHIPARMANDO COSTA NETO & AROSESUCHACLATTER TAKE RESERVE TITLEARMANDO COSTA NETO & AROSESUCHACLATTER TAKE RESERVE TITLE

round and fi nished off today with a solid 216.“I was really comfortable going down there today with him,” she said of her performance in the second go. “That set of cows seemed pretty tough, but Wes found some good ones that didn’t run me over. My horse was really good. It was just kind of a soft run. We didn’t have any mistakes. I was thrilled.”Galyean showed the gelding for

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When Kristen Galyean rode to the herd during the second go of the Non-Pro Derby, she didn’t know that the score she was about to mark would crown her and her horse Harley the Limited Non-Pro Champions. In fact, she didn’t know she’d won the class at all until well after the round was complete. “I didn’t know, but I’m glad it worked out that way,” she said of the schedule that originally had a fi nals listed to take place on Saturday for the Limited Non-Pro. “I had no idea, but I was very excited. It’s our fi rst major win so that was really exciting and big news for us.”This is the second show for Galyean and Harley and the two have proven to be top contenders, even in the Non-Pro by leading the composite scores with a 434.5.The two cut to a 218 in the fi rst go to lead the

the fi rst time at the NCHA Super Stakes and said he was really good for her then, but her nerves got the best of her and she was penalized for a hot quit. This time around, however, Kristen said she was able to relax. “Here, I was just like, ‘I’m going to have fun and not worry about it and just enjoy getting to show a horse like that,’ and it worked out better, she said. For Kristen, the caliber that Harley brings to the table is that of an Open horse. He was trained by her husband, Wes, and made the Open fi nals with him at the NCHA Futurity last year. As Galyean was getting geared up the Non-Pro fi nals, she said that each run made her feel more comfortable with the gelding. “Just getting through two solid runs and just getting to know my horse, I think that was a huge confi dence booster for me and my horse,” she said. “He’s so fun to

Armado Costa Neto and Arosesucha-clatter earned the Limited Non-Pro Reserve Championship on Friday.

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JESSICA POUNDS & REYS DREAMGIRL WIN 2ND ROUND OF NON-PRO DERBYJESSICA POUNDS & REYS DREAMGIRL WIN 2ND ROUND OF NON-PRO DERBY

JILL PIGGOTT & TALK N SMOOTH TOP $10K NOVICE 2ND ROUNDJILL PIGGOTT & TALK N SMOOTH TOP $10K NOVICE 2ND ROUND

troduced to cattle for the fi rst time and there were no expectations coming from Kory or Jessica. They bought the mare for a mere $7,500 because she was bred well, but really never expected her to turn into a show horse. “We got her home and rode her,” Jessica said of when they bought the mare. “She was good, but she was just broke. She had never been worked on a cow, as far as I know. Kory spent most of the summer just riding her.”In September, Jessica told Kory that she had already been paying on a non-pro slot at the event, and she thought she would

Of all the horses that Kory Pounds has trained, he probably wouldn’t have put his money on Reys Dreamgirl to carry his wife Jessica to the Non-Pro fi nals at the Breeder’s Invitation-al, not at this time last year, anyway. In fact, in the summer of last year, the then 3-year-old mare was being in-

hang onto it. “He was like, ‘Well, you’re mare’s not going to be ready,” Jessica recalled of the conversation. Still, Kory continued on with Reys Dreamgirl, and she kept getting better and better. As NCHA Futurity time rolled around, they decided to go ahead and enter her. “I marked a 216 the fi rst go and a 213 and 216 in the semis and made the fi nals,” she said. “It was the fi rst time I’d made the fi nals at the Futurity.”Although the pair lost a cow in the fi nals, the Pounds were quite pleased with her success. Now, Reys Dreamgirl has earned more than $20,000 prior to the B.I. and has a Cats Quixote Jack on the way that Kory is

(Right) Jill Piggot rode Talk N Smooth to the top of the second round in the $10K Novice division of the Non-Pro Derby on Friday.

pretty excited about. “She feels better ev-ery time you show her,” said Jessica. “For me it’s easy because she’s so cowy. I have more confi dence on her than my 5-year-old and I don’t know why. It’s weird. I don’t have any expectations. I just go show her.”Jessica and the horse marked a 218 in Fri-day’s Non-Pro second go to top the scores of the day in that and the Limited Non-Pro. In the $10K Novice, Jill Piggott and Talk N Smooth cut to a 216 to top the scores of the class in the second go. Piggott raised the horse and his mother, but because he got hurt just before the Futurity last year, this was the fi rst time she’d been able to show him. Piggott and her husband Tony won about $150,000 on the gelding’s grandmother, Whisper Of A Playgirl. They later sold the horse, but kept one fi lly and that Whispering Acres, Talk N Smooth’s dam. For their fi rst trip out, Pig-gott said she was thrilled with their run in the second go. “I just felt like I needed to stay clean and cut my cows good,” she said.

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ANSWER: 6060 CATTLE WERE USED FOR ANSWER: 6060 CATTLE WERE USED FOR THIS YEAR‛S BREEDER‛S INVITATIONAL THIS YEAR‛S BREEDER‛S INVITATIONAL

show. I feel like I’m getting to know him better.”Because Harley is out of the fi rst foal crop by Spots Hot, a stallion Wes showed to more than $500,000 in winnings, he’s even more special to the Galyean family. Harley is out of Cattilion, a High Brow Cat mare that unfortunately died earlier this year as a result of colic. She earned more than $150,000 during her show career.A former Western Pleasure competitor, Galyean had never ridden a cutting horse until she met Wesley. The fi rst time she showed one was at the 2008 NCHA Futurity where she made the Limited Non-Pro fi nals. “It was really fun. I had no clue what I was doing. I didn’t even really know the rules,” she said with a laugh.Now that she’s becoming more familiar with what the judges are looking for, she said her biggest struggle has been learning to read the cows. “I’ve never been around cows until I met Wesley, so just recognizing them and studying them, knowing if they’re acting bad as you’re

stepping to them - I’m still very novice at that and that’s the main thing that I want to get better at. Just being able to make those split decisions without Wesley or Jody telling me,” she said. “I feel like every time I go down there I learn something new. I have a lot to learn still and I’m just enjoying that journey.” The Oklahoma cowgirl is catching on pretty fast. Her win in the Limited Non-Pro pushed her NCHA earnings to more than $80,000. Armondo Costo Neta earned the Limited Non-Pro Reserve Championship on a horse that left her mark at the NCHA Futurity last year. Arosesuchaclatter (Smooth As A Cat x Mates Irish Rose x Smart Mate), trained by Bart Nichols, not only fi nished fi fth in the Open fi nals at the big event with Nichols, but also made the Non-Pro and Limited Non-Pro fi nals there with Costa. Prior to the B.I., this handy little mare had already earned more than $215,000, which also included Reserve titles with Costa at the Cattleman’s Derby and Tunica Futurity earlier this year. In Tulsa, the two marked a 216.5 each trip out in the go rounds to secure a spot in Saturday’s Non-Pro fi nals.

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**** DEAN HOLDEN AND GREG COALSON NAB DEAN HOLDEN AND GREG COALSON NAB WILDCARD SLOTSSLOTS ****

They aren’t going to Disney World, but two horses are going somewhere even better – the B.I. Derby Non Pro fi nals to be held today. After posting the highest scores in the Derby Non Pro Wild Card on Friday, Willys The Boss, ridden by Dean Holden, and Daisy Dots, piloted by Greg Coalson, will fi ll the last two slots of the big event.

Holden and his CD Lights stallion marked a blistering 219.5 score from the ninth slot in the 11-team fi eld. Two horses later, Coalson and Daisy Dots, his Quejanaisalena

mare, posted a 217. “That was nerve-racking!” an elated Holden said with a big grin. “This is one of the wildest runs we’ve ever had. Our favorites [cows] mostly got cut, but the ones we cut were three of the better cattle left. My second cow was really tough. It got right up under my neck [during] the fi rst move and looked like it was going to get away. This horse has such a zipper speed he got right up there ahead of that cow. He just whipped across the pen. He likes a moving cow, but they make me nervous.”

The Australian native, who lives with his wife, Charra Clark, in Marietta, Okla., trained the horse out of Willy N Tivio Babe himself. He was immediately impressed when he fi rst saw Wil-

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lys The Boss as a 2-year-old at a sale in Shawnee, Okla. The stallion’s sire, CD Lights, has more than $200,000 in lifetime earnings. “When I went to look at some other horses, I saw him and just fell in love with him,” Holden said. “He’d only been started a little bit, but I liked his looks – he was really strong and mature for a young horse.”

The team is fresh off a victory at the NCHA Super Stakes in April, where they were the $10,000 Novice Non-Pro Champions. Holden and Willys Boss were semi-fi nalists at the NCHA Non-Pro Futurity after the stal-lion had been sidelined with an injury for a month. After the Wild Card, he thanked his help – Bill Riddle, Michael Cooper, and Sean and Eddie Flynn – for their sound advice before his run. “I had wound myself up, thinking I was going to really have to sling some sand,” he explained. “They said, ‘No, you have enough horse. Just slow yourself down and cut some good cattle. Just cut real clean.’ My horse can really scoot across the pen, so if you use him too hard you can get him into trouble because

he’s so quick. I couldn’t believe he held that cow. I was holding my breath and just tried to stay on top of him.”

After drawing late in almost every run he’s made on Daisy Dots, Coalson could hardly believe he drew last in the Wild Card, as well. “When they started calling out the draw and called me out last, I thought, ‘Oh, my word! Here we go again!’ At least, I knew what it was going to take to go to the fi nals,” he said. By the time their run came around, there were only about two cows left that were worthy of cutting. Holden and Daisy Dots cut them fi rst, and then took whatever cow they could to fi nish up the run. “The little mare was really good. The second cow re-ally took hold of her and let me stop it,” he said. “She’s just a little cow pony. She really needs something to get ahold of and ride strong, so it worked out really well.”

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