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This section brought to you by: Dual Titles for Jay McLaughlin in Ardmore Written by Mark Thompson    Jay McLaughlin For the second straight day, a horse ridden by Jay McLaughlin and owned by Carol Rose, Gainesville, Texas, won the main event by topping a Reserve Champion ridden by Texan Boyd Rice as the Southwest Reined Cow Horse Association Summer Classic concluded on Sunday, Aug. 23, in Ardmore, Okla. Sponsored Ad Competing in his hometown, Bill Cowan won Kalpowar Futurity Non-Pro and Faith Performance Horses Derby Non-Pro titles on Sunday while also tying for second in the Futurity Non-Pro and placing fourth in the Derby Non-Pro. He earned four checks totaling $4,467. McLaughlin moved from Missouri to work with Rose in North Texas back in January. He continued the best year of an already strong career in Oklahoma by winning the Futurity Open with a 430 aboard stallion A Shiner Named Sioux (Shining Spark x Docs Dulena) on Sunday to earn $7,973, plus an extra $2,295 through the event’s Stallion Stakes bonus. Topping horses ridden by Rice, a good friend and a highly respected rival, two days in a row made for a memorable weekend, McLaughlin said. “It’s pretty hard to get around him, to be honest with you,” said McLaughlin, who also took another top check on Saturday riding an older horse owned by Rose in the Open Bridle Spectacular. He edged two horses in that event ridden by standout reining and cow horse competitor Todd Crawford. “He [Rice] is a tough competitor. It’s always fun to beat the winner of every other event. We get along fine. He’s a good friend of mine.” McLaughlin won the Derby Open with CD Dee Vee Dee (CD Lights x Shiners Missy Jay) by scoring a 440.5 to earn $6,027, with Rice a close second on 2007 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion Oh Cay N Short (Oh Cay Quixote x Bit Of Shorty). Rice certainly didn’t have a bad weekend. Saturday, he and Oh Cay N Short earned $4,822 with their 437.5 Reserve Champion Derby finish. Sunday, Rice and Dual Star Cat (Dual Pep x Lenas Star Cat) earned $6,240 as Reserve Champions with a 429 while finishing one point out of first. Dual Star Cat is owned by Bar H Ranche, Weatherford,Texas. Rice and Desire Rey (Dual Rey x Playguns Desire), owned by Kevin and Sydney Knight, Peoria, Ariz., also finished third with a 428.5 to earn $5,200. The Knights also own Oh Cay N Short, whom Rice said he is preparing for the next World’s Greatest Horseman competition, while continuing to show him in cow horse events. Bill Cowan Cowan won the Futurity Non-Pro with a 416.5 on ARC Peppy LA Please (Chic Please x Tassas Little Peppy), a mare his wife, Michelle, plans to compete with next month at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno. He won the Derby Non-Pro and $1,067 with a 427 on Bet Yer A Star (Bet On Me 498 x Nurse Gray), a now 4-year-old gelding that he won the Summer Classic Futurity with last August at the event’s former site in Waco, Texas. Cowan and ARC Peppy LA Please bounced back from losing a cow and posting a low 131 in the herd work portion of the competition with 140.5 reining and 145 fence scores. “She was good in the reining and then she just tried her heart out in the fence work,” Cowan said. “I was proud of that because that cow was running.” Michelle Cowan will compete with the Futurity Non-Pro Champion in Reno, along with the horse that her husband tied for second and third with in the same event. “He [Bill] did a wonderful job,’’ Michelle said. “I don’t know if I could have been as brave as he was down the fence today. I was happy with the horses, too. They all performed really well.” Subscribe to Quarter Horse News Today!   Mac os software dowanload