Austin Blake of Canyon, Texas and Laura Fenimore of College Station, Texas, won the Non-Pro and Amateur divisions respectively Thursday night at the 2010 Borden Milk NCHA Futurity. Blake, 29, broke out of the pack with a 222 on One Rockin Pepto, for a three-point win over Paula Wood on Little Black Boon. Blake bought One Rockin Pepto for $9,800 at the 2008 Western Bloodstock Futurity Sales. The gelding is by freshman sire One Time Pepto and is a half-brother to $300,000 earner Rockin By Choice.

Fenimore, a 21-year-old Texas A&M junior, marked 219.5 as the 28th rider in the Amateur finals, overtaking Robert Tiemann’s 215 on Ubet Ima Barmaid.

She rode Misplaced Cat, a homebred daughter of WR This Cats Smart, out of Tangy Starlight, the mare that Fenimore won the World Championship on in the $10,000 Novice Non-Pro class.

Other champions include:

• John Deere Division of the Open: Kenneth Platt riding Downtown Smarts, owned by Dwight and Kathi Fisher. Watch the video on NCHAtv.com.
• Matthews Cutting Horses Ltd Non-Pro: Colleen Wold on Ka Blue E. Watch the video on NCHAtv.com

The Open semi-finals are on Friday’s calendar, and the NCHA Futurity Sales continue Friday with the Preferred Breeders Sale, including the Western Bloodstock Invitational Mare Sale.

The Futurity will conclude with the Open finals on December 11. You can keep up with the action on the live webcast, presented by Big Sky Internet Design, every day and read about it in the Daily Chatter, presented by the McDavid Family.

The three-hour telecast of the Futurity, presented by the McDavid Family, will be shown Sunday on RFD-TV, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Central.