September 10, 2011 - 5:30pm

NCHA Summer Spectacular
Billy Collier, Waller, Texas, and Smooth Freckled Cat were Matthews
Cutting Horses Derby Limited Non-Pro Senior Champions
Billy Klapper
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September 10, 2011 - 5:30pm
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Brandon won the Boys Cutting
at the 2004 National High School
Finals Rodeo with Smart Little
Boogie. He then continued showing her in the Non-Pro.
“They’re both real bright and
cute on a cow,” Brandon said of
Nievas and her dam. “Her momma
and her both have the same way
of trapping a cow. They have the
same way of drawing a cow to
them and not having to go run fast
across the pen.”
Brandon, 25, did his part to set
Nievas up. “We got them [the cows]
cut clean, too,” he said. “I always
try to make sure I cut them as
smooth as possible, so I can start
my run out that way.”
Brandon also credited his dad,
whom he says is an expert at
selecting cows, for his winning
run. That’s not the only expertise Ed, an earner of more than
$560,000 as a cutter, has offered
his son. Nievas was a father/son
project, with Brandon starting her
as a 2-year-old, and Ed taking over
the bulk of training when the mare
was 3.
The Dufurrena men have found a
system that fits and through working together, Brandon has picked
up many lessons from his father,
the biggest of which is patience.
“With this business, you can’t
get in a hurry,” Brandon said. “It’s
all about patience and controlling
your temper. It’s a big deal because
if the horse makes a wrong move,
you want to get mad, but if you
get mad, they don’t learn from it.
You’ve got to teach them. That’s
what they’re here for, to learn. If
I don’t teach them, then I can’t
expect them to be good down there
[in the show pen].”
Brandon’s patience has paid
off, and the young horseman is on
a roll. The Summer Spectacular
win was his second major NCHA
title this year. He also won April’s
Super Stakes Classic/Challenge
Limited Non-Pro title with 2005
mare Miss Ella Rey (Dual Rey x
Huggs Olena x Smart Chic Olena),
a mare Brandon has ridden to
more than $92,000 in cutting
earnings.
The Limited Non-Pro Reserve
Championship went to Filipe
Rezende Barbosa and his mare
Miss T Rachet (Cat T Masterson
x Missys Rachet x Doc’s Hickory).
They scored a 216 in the finals and
won $7,776. Barbosa grew up on
a ranch in Brazil and has made a
splash in American cutting pens
since moving to the U.S. two weeks
before January’s Augusta Futurity
in Augusta, Ga.
Barbosa plans to stay in the
United States for at least a year as
he lives with fellow cutter Armando
Costa Filho and trains with John
Mitchell near Weatherford, Texas.
The Senior Limited Non-Pro
title, determined in the first round,
went to Billy Collier, Waller, Texas,
and Smooth Freckled Cat (Widows
Freckles x Sheza Smart Cat x High
Brow Cat). Collier, 61, and his
gelding marked a 206 and won
$1,980. —EH
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