For the second straight day, a horse ridden by Jay McLaughlin and owned by Carol Rose, Gainesville, Texas, won the main event by topping a Reserve Champion ridden by Texan Boyd Rice as the Southwest Reined Cow Horse Association Summer Classic concluded on Sunday, Aug. 23, in Ardmore, Okla.
McLaughlin moved from Missouri to work with Rose in North Texas back in January. He continued the best year of an already strong career in Oklahoma by winning the Futurity Open with a 430 aboard stallion A Shiner Named Sioux (Shining Spark x Docs Sulena) on Sunday to earn $7,973, plus an extra $2,295 through the event’s Stallion Stakes bonus.
A Shiner Named Sioux and Jay McLaughlin
dominated the 2009 SRCHA Futurity. |
Topping horses ridden by Rice, a good friend and a highly respected rival, two days in a row made for a memorable weekend, McLaughlin said.“It’s pretty hard to get around him, to be honest with you,” said McLaughlin, who also took another top check on Saturday riding an older horse owned by Rose in the Open Bridle Spectacular. He edged two horses in that event ridden by standout reining and cow horse competitor Todd Crawford. “He [Rice] is a tough competitor. It’s always fun to beat the winner of every other event. We get along fine. He’s a good friend of mine.”
McLaughlin won the Derby Open with CD Dee Vee Dee (CD Lights x Shiners Missy Jay x Shining Spark) by scoring a 440.5 to earn $6,027, with Rice a close second on 2007 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion Oh Cay N Short (Oh Cay Quixote x Bit Of Shorty).
Rice certainly didn’t have a bad weekend. Saturday, he and Oh Cay N Short earned $4,822 with their 437.5 Reserve Champion Derby finish. Sunday, Rice and Dual Star Cat (Dual Pep x Lenas Star Cat) earned $6,240 as Reserve Champions with a 429 while finishing one point out of first. Dual Star Cat is owned by Bar H Ranche, Weatherford,Texas. Rice and Desire Rey (Dual Rey x Playguns Desire), owned by Kevin and Sydney Knight, Peoria, Ariz., also finished third with a 428.5 to earn $5,200. The Knights also own Oh Cay N Short, whom Rice said he is preparing for the next World’s Greatest Horseman competition, while continuing to show him in cow horse events.
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