Sophisticated Catt--a Three-peat

This is the sire or Wonkers and Bambi, Two of our 2010 foals. Both are for sale. This story was released just tonight on the AQHA website, right after the senior cutting finals at the world show.

SENIOR CUTTING

Boyd Rice and Sophisticated Catt

WINNER STATS

• Horse name: Sophisticated Catt
• Pedigree: 2002 sorrel stallion, High Brow Cat-Shania Cee by Peppys Boy 895
• Breeder: Billy Cogdell, Tulia, Texas
• Owner: Keith Feister and Dale Koller, Gainesville, Texas
• Exhibitor: Boyd Rice, Spearman, Texas
• Trainer: Boyd Rice, Spearman, Texas
• Total class entries: 27
• Purse: 35,880.03
• World Champion Prizes: Custom gold-tone trophy, Montana Silversmiths buckle, Cripple Creek logoed Jacket, Justin ostrich boots, Professional's Choice products, Nutrena Feed, neck wreath and medallion

Three in a row for Sophisticated Catt.

by Christine Hamilton
The American Quarter Horse Journal

Boyd Rice and Sophisticated Catt took the senior cutting world championship for the third year in a row November 18 at the 2010 AQHA World Championship Show. Third in the go, they scored a 225 for the win.

The trainer from Spearman, Texas, was fresh off winning a reserve world championship in the junior cutting on November 17 with Carl and Shawnea Smith’s Third Cutting.

“You know, the cattle were a little bit better tonight than they were last night,” Boyd said after the win. “Of course, I drew earlier, first (with Bobby Lewis’ Dual Spark) and third. I cut three perfect cows on Sophisticated Catt and, you know, he’s a phenomenal little horse, and it worked out just right.”

The two were invited back as last year’s world champions.

“We never showed him all year until right before this,” Boyd said. “I showed him one time. We just legged him up and went to working him a little bit, and I showed him one time and marked a 75 and then came here.

“I don’t think he’s been showed (otherwise)… since last year. He was pretty simple this time.”

The 2002 chestnut is a son of High Brow Cat and out of the great mare Shania Cee whose titles include 2000 National Cutting Horse Association Horse of the Year and 1999 NCHA Futurity winner. Shania Cee is a daughter of American Quarter Horse Hall of fame mare Lynx Melody.

Sophisticated Catt has three crops of registered foals now; the oldest are foals of 2008. He has more than $200,000 in combined World Show and National Cutting Horse Association earnings.

“I just want to thank (Keith Feister and Dale Koller) for letting me ride him,” Boyd said, “and I have to thank all my help. There are a lot of (people) that go into this.”

Original story at http://aqha.com/Showing/World-Show/Open-Western/Senior-Cutting.aspx