Show Biz On Broadway & Jimmie Annoot Dazzle in NCHA Futurity

Show Biz On Broadway isn’t very big, but don’t tell her that. She came through for trainer Jimmie Annoot in a big way during the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Limited Open finals.

By the time the dust settled, their 221.5 earned the black Quarter Horse mare and Annoot their first-ever championship at Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas.

Afterward, Annoot praised the mare’s cowy, easygoing nature.

“She’s a little tiny mare, but she doesn’t know it,” he said of owner Danielle Carlton’s homebred. “She thinks she’s a big horse—[and is] super easy to show. I mean, [she] just comes out good every day. Just a really, really nice horse.”

The second-to-last draw in the second set of the 27-horse finals, Annoot said he almost had trouble in his first cut. But, the daughter of EquiStat Elite $2 Million Sire Hashtags made it happen.

“That cow didn’t really want to get away from me and I was pretty close to the herd there when I put my hand down, but it worked,” the Weatherford, Texas, trainer said. “And then the run just kind of built and got better and better.”

He cut the third cow with some time on the clock, but praised his in-arena helpers for coaching him through the final leg of the run. Helpers included Michael Cooper, Lance Cooper, Casey Green and Clay Johnson.

“I think I turned around my third cut [and] had a lot of time, and they were slowing me down,” he said. “It was a full-time job slowing me down there—but we got finished good. And, it was awesome.”

Show Biz On Broadway was one of two horses Annoot showed in the Limited Open finals. He thanked his lopers for helping get the mare and his other horse, Cattin In Style, ready for the class. He also thanked Carlton and Cooper, who he works for, as well as everyone in Cooper’s program.

Annoot accepts congratulations from the other trainers. * Photo by Amy Olson

With the earnings from both horses added to his record, Annoot now has lifetime earnings of more than $51,063 in the EquiStat database.

Show Biz On Broadway earned $5,279 for owner-breeder Danielle Carlton, of Aledo, Texas. While Annoot says his NCHA Futurity is done for the year, the mare will have another shot at a victory this year in the Amateur class with Carlton.

Bred by her owner, Show Biz On Broadway is the first money earner in EquiStat out of the mare SS Kittys Show Biz (by Blue Bayou Boon). Her second dam is broodmare Show Biz Kitty, a daughter of High Brow Cat who has foaled the earners of more than $2.8 million and is one of today’s leading cutting horse dams.

2024 NCHA Futurity Limited Open Reserve Champions

Just a half point behind the winners at 221 were NCHA Futurity Limited Open Reserve champions Breyking Badd and Antonio Sergio De Araujo. Hailing from the first crop of 2018 NCHA Futurity Open Reserve Champion Badboonarising, Breyking Badd is one of three money winning offspring out of the mare Rey N Style (by Dual Smart Rey).

The $5,078 Breyking Badd earned for the runner-up finish in Fort Worth pushed his dam’s produce record to more than $475,511.

Owned by Ten/27 Ranch, Breyking Badd was bred by Plantation Farms, of Denham Springs, Louisiana.