 Showing CD Olena Peppy at the Western Nationals was an afterthought for Norman Clark, Dos Palos, Calif., who won the 2008 NCHA $10,000 Novice Non-Pro World Finals on the gelding and finished third in the World standings. “I knew he was a good horse, but I didn’t know he was this good,” said Clark, 67, who won the Non-Pro title with 219 points and the $10,000 Novice Non-Pro with 222 points. “Historically, he’s been better every day. Today, I thought he was better than yesterday, but he had to go to the corner to stop one cow and it subtracted a little.” When Clark retired from his contracting business in 2005, he purchased the 2001 son of CD Olena as a weekend mount, on the recommendation of Chubby Turner. The first time he showed the horse, he won the Pacific Coast Non-Pro Gelding Limited division, was reserve of the Non-Pro Gelding division of the same event, and placed fourth in the Non- Pro finals. |
