UNOFFICIALLY, Bet Hesa Cat offspring earned $109,860 at the Riata Championships, leading the pack of Riata Stallions in a roping that paid $1 million on just Sept. 25 alone.

1. Bet Hesa Cat

Bet Hesa Cat, the Riata stallion owned by 6666s Ranch, leaned on the double-dipping earnings of Smartlookncat, the 2019 red roan ridden by Cord Forzano on the heel side to first with Reed Boos and third with JD Yates in the #14.5. Smartlookncat is out of Miss Plain Plain, a full sibling to Plain Catty, the 2017 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion.

The 2006 stallion Bet Hesa Cat is by High Brow Cat, out of Bet Yer Blue Boons by Freckles Playboy, and the horse won $272,151 in his performance career in the cutting. He was an NCHA Open World Champion who’s sired NCHA World Champions.

2. Hickory Holly Time

Hickory Holly Time’s offspring won $72,000, led by Douglas Rich’s Cee The Lights, a 5-year-old mare out of the CD Lights mare Bossie.

Hickory Holly Time, owned by DT Horses, is by One Time Pepto and out of Hickorys Holly Cee, by Docs Hickory. The horse won the World’s Greatest Horseman title and the NRCHA Derby, and he earned over $231,052 in his performance career.

Editor’s note: DT Horses provides a $50,000 bonus to ropers competing at the Riata. Plus, Dean Tuftin is offering a $500 discount to any purchaser that has a current World Series of Team Roping membership.

3. MR Sassy Frenchman

MR Sassy Frenchman sired the #14.5 winner Yes Im Sassy, the 6-year-old mare that’s dominated the rope horse futurity industry the last two years with the likes of Colby Lovell, Dakota Kirchenschlager and Kaleb Driggers.

The Myers Ranch’s MR Sassy Frenchman, by Frenchman Guy out of the Mr Jess Perry daughter Jess Sass Me, earned over $45,000 in his own performance career. His dam produced earners of $1,153,425, and she herself had a speed index of 107.

4/5. Metallic Gray and DD Docs Irish Badger

Metallic Gray and DD Docs Irish Badger sired the winners of the Open futurity—Metallic Katrina and DD Denvers Badger—tying them for fourth and fifth in the Riata Championships Day 1 earnings with $42,500. Metallic Gray, owned by the Cudd Ranch, is by Metallic Cat out of Smooth Sage by Over Osage.

DD Docs Irish Badger, a 2015 bay stallion owned by Eliason Performance Horses, is by Paddys Irish Whiskey out of My Little Sugar Babe by Sons Doc O Sugar.