Daniel Summers & Gotcha To Sin get Double the Futurity Championships

Daniel Summers said he didn’t expect to win going into the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity but he ended the show with two new buckles and trophies. He and Gotcha To Sin (CR Gotcha Covered x Shez Sinsational x Dual Pep) marked a 223 and a 220 to win the Intermediate Non-Pro finals and the Limited Non-Pro finals respectively.

If this were a race, you could say Summers and Gotcha To Sin came from the back.

“My first go on this horse was a 213.5. I wouldn’t say I really messed it up but it wasn’t as clean as it could’ve been,” Summers said. “So it sure didn’t start out awesome.”

It did end that way though. On Nov. 26, Summers and the sorrel horse stepped into the pen as the eighth draw during the Intermediate Non-Pro futurity finals. They had some cattle picked out for the run but many had already been cut.

“Seemed like the two or three horses before me cut all the cattle that I had in mind,” Summers said. “But James [Payne] mentioned a couple others, and Clay [Johnson] mentioned one, and I mentioned one and we found some in there and it seemed to just it work.”

The Limited Non-Pro finals were next after a short break and the duo walked into the herd sixth for their second run of the day.

Daniel Summers and Gotcha To Sin went right to work on their first cut of their limited non-pro run. * Photo by Amy Olson

“I really wasn’t planning on it coming together like that the second time, but it did. So I just think it was just, right time, right moment,” Summers said.

The horse is owned by a relative of Summers’, Kathleen Moore and was ridden all year by Summers himself. He wanted to thank Ty and Kathleen for giving him the opportunity to ride the CR Gotcha Covered colt. He also wanted to thank his herd help James Payne, Clay Johnson, Jamie Snyder and Lloyd Cox for their efforts throughout the show.

The duo will take home $14,892 for their intermediate Non-Pro win and $6,447 for the limited.

Reserve Champions

In the intermediate, Lisa Taylor rode It Wazznt Me (NRR Cat King Cole x Chic Ka Ching Chic x A Chic In Time) to the reserve championship with a 221 to take home $14,385. Sorrel Carter, one of the youngest riders in the non-pro finals, marked a 218 to take the limited non-pro reserve championship and $6,035 on Izzarollz (Rollz Royce x Boo Cat x High Brow Cat). Carter also marked a 217.5 in the intermediate and took home $13,115 for a fourth place tie in that division.