LBR Quite Bad and Banuelos are Very, Very Good in PCCHA Super Futurity

Attracted by a lucrative purse, a line-up of top 3-year-old cutting horses gave audiences something to cheer about in the Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association (PCCHA) Super Futurity. Several horses posted impressive scores, but LBR Quite Bad and Adan Banuelos marked the highest with a 229.

It was the first big win of LBR Quite Bad’s young career, and it came against a very talented lineup of 3-year-olds. Six of the horses in Friday night’s finals marked a 220 or higher.

“This is the toughest set of small futurity horses I’ve ever seen by a landslide,” Banuelos said.

Banuelos said he was the most impressed by how well LBR Quite Bad handled the pressure in the Super Futurity. The reward was a $60,000 first-place paycheck for winning the class.

“The thought process was to show her to win and to let it hang out there a little bit,” he said.

Big Win For Badboonarising

Owned by Charles Burger, of Chatsworth, Georgia, LBR Quite Bad is from the first crop of National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity Open Reserve Champion and freshman sire Badboonarising.

The win appears to be a major milestone for her sire, whose first crop turned 3 this year and are now old enough to compete in Western performance horse futurities. While several Badboonarising foals have made the finals at the season’s early futurities —three made the finals of the Super Futurity — LBR Quite Bad is his first Open futurity champion at a big event. One of the other Badboonarising offspring, Cobra Kaii, finished third in the Super Futurity.

Banuelos also rode Badboonarising, as well as his full sister, All Spice, who was the NCHA Futurity Open Champion and NCHA Open Horse of the Year. He has a number of Badboonarisings in training, and said they’re an extremely talented group of horses.

Adan Banuelos riding Badboonarising. * Photo by Scootem N Shootem Photography

“All of the Badboonarisings so far, my favorite characteristic is how willing to please they are and how strong they are physically,” he said.

LBR Quite Bad is a big, attractive mare, Banuelos said, and has always had a lot of feel and ability combined with a lot of brains.

“She’s extremely cow smart and reads a cow and doesn’t let a fast cow talk her into getting her heart rate higher and making a mistake,” Banuelos explained. “So, she’s beyond her years in how smart she is, and she’s always been like that – from the first day we saddled her, she’s been that way.”

Raising the Bar

In addition to the lucrative purse money, the Super Futurity also featured a big incentive in the name of the stallion Reyzin The Cash. His owner, Iron Rose Ranch, offered an additional $100,000 in incentives to the highest-placing horses whose owners who had 2025 breeding contracts to the stallion. The highest-placing horse who earned the largest piece of the incentive was Cobrai Kaii, owned by SMF Cutting Horses LLC, who earned an additional $50,000 from the incentive. The remaining $50,000 in incentives was paid to five other eligible horses.

Even though Banuelos and LBR Quite Bad weren’t eligible for the incentive, Banuelos said he was grateful to Tom and Lisa Bailey of Iron Rose Ranch for helping the PCCHA provide an opportunity to showcase such talented 3-year-olds at an early futurity.

“That’s a big deal,” he said.

Bottom Side

Bred by Rose Valley Ranch, of Weatherford, Texas, LBR Quite Bad is one of 23 money earners out of the broodmare Quite The Cat (by High Brow Cat). Including her daughter’s Super Futurity earnings, Quite The Cat now has produce earnings to more than $954,000.

Reserve champions in the 2024 PCCHA Super Futurity were Dust Cutter and Kenny Platt. The Colorado trainer and the stallion by Smooth As A Cat and out of Play Bling (by Little Haida Playboy) earned $40,000 for owner-breeders H.A. & Karen True, of Glenrock, Wyoming.