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Wesley Galyean And Smart Playgun Victorious In Limited NCHA Non-Professional Finals

Fort Worth, Texas – (April 13, 2001) Wesley Galyean, a high school senior from Ardmore, Oklahoma and Smart Playgun went head to head with a good pen of cattle at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum to win the NCHA Limited Non-Professional Super Stakes Finals with an impressive score 217. The champion received a check for $4,582 from a purse of $29,700. Wesley started competing in the NCHA youth division and already has lifetime earnings in excess of $105,000.

Reserve Champion honors went to Christy Leeth, from Cleburne, Texas, abroad HFL Haidas Hickory, which she owns with her husband, Dub Leeth, with a score of 215.5. The win helps bring her NCHA lifetime earnings to over $80,000.

Third place finisher, Scott Ferguson of Hempstead, Texas, trailed close behind with a score of 215 atop Miss Five Across. David N. Capps, who hails from Milsap, Texas finished fourth with a score of 212 on his horse, Thing Ama Bob.

The NCHA Super Stakes competition continues tomorrow at 3 p.m. with the Super Stakes Non-Pro Finals and the Super Stakes Open Finals.

The sport of cutting has roots in Western ranching tradition, where good horses were a necessity for everyday ranch work and cattle handling. “Cutting horses specialized in their ability to separate or “cut” one cow from a herd of others, for branding, doctoring or shipping. The National Cutting Horse Association was formed in 1946 by a group of cowboys and ranchers, who wanted to promote cutting competitions, have standardized rules and preserve the cutting horse’s Western heritage. Today, the Fort Worth based NCHA represents more than 12,000 members in 22 countries and oversees more than 1,400 NCHA approved shows with more than $22 million in total prize money awarded annually.

For more information, please contact Judy Mayes at (817) 244-6188, or visit the NCHA website at www.nchacutting.com