Hot Girl Ish and Deena Adams relish in PCCHA Futurity Non Pro 4-Year-Old Championship

Deena Adams checked two major goals off of her cutting bucket list in September. One of them came on September 27 at the Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association (PCCHA) Futurity and the other came a mere week earlier. Both included help from her family, team and Hot Girl Ish.

Deena and her husband Dustin owned the young mare’s late sire, Hottish, and were excited to acquire another show horse so similar to him. The Adamses and other breeders are still utilizing Hottish’s frozen semen to breed mares. In this case, the late sire was bred to Sly Playgirl (by That Sly Cat) for Rose Valley Ranch. The Adamses purchased Hot Girl Ish last October while she was in training with Cullen Chartier and have been enjoying the ride ever since.

“We really love her. She is one of the barn favorites. She is so easy to be around. She’s a sweetheart, she’s beautiful, but she’s just so willing and kind and easy to ride,” Adams said. “For Dustin and I she reminds us the most of Hottish himself. Hottish was just so kind and sweet and willing, and she has that same kind of temperament, but then can get on a cow and be so electric.”

Adams described the mare as “built like a bulldog” and clarified that although not very big, she is strong. She showed that mental and physical strength through quite a few runs in Vegas where she was showed by Chartier in the Open and Adams in the Non-Pro classes.

“She was really good for him through the go-round to the open, had a little tough luck in the final but she was dialed in, and so it was easy for me just to jump on and have a good time,” Adams said.

Adams and “Tamale” marked a 219 in the go-round to move them into the finals along with Steven Feiner, Chad Bushaw on two horses, Gavin Mesalam and Kelsey Conn.

Deena then scratched from the Intermediate Non-Pro finals to give Tamale a rest and focus on the Non-Pro finals. The decision paid off in a big way.

In the finals, they marked a 222 for the championship and a check worth $8,500. Adams was moved to tears as she rode away from the herd. Just days earlier, she was striving to pull a check for a few hundred dollars, a check that would push her over the $500,000 earnings mark to unofficially qualify her for the NCHA Non Pro Riders Hall Of Fame.

She did reach that achievement unofficially the weekend before showing at the PCCHA Futurity.

“I had the gaol of making the Hall of Fame, and it’s taking my help, my kids, my husband, everybody has been a huge supporter and trying to get me there. So I’m very grateful to have met their criteria,” Adams said.

To top off the month’s accomplishments, the PCCHA Championship was her first Non-Pro title.

“It meant a lot to me. I have won some intermediate and unlimited and some amateur championships, but this was my first aged event non-pro championship, so it meant a lot to me,” Adams said.

She wanted to thank her husband Dustin as well as Lloyd Cox, Cullen Chartier and Clay Johnson for helping her in the herd and turning back in Las Vegas and thank everybody who helped her with her other horses on the road to her Hall Of Fame accomplishment.