{"id":12825,"date":"2016-09-17T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2016-10-07T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T21:13:12","slug":"setnicka-bozeman-win-mercuria-at-el-rancho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12825","title":{"rendered":"Setnicka, Bozeman win Mercuria at El Rancho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Setnicka on Ichis My Choice and Stuart Bozeman on Checkers Live Oak, won the Open and Non-Pro finals, respectively, of the Mercuria NCHA World Series of Cutting at El Rancho Futurity Friday. Both horse and rider teams were claiming their second major wins of the year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5197\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/setnicka-grant.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Setnicka\" width=\"178\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant Setnicka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Setnicka, who tied for top score of 226 in the go-round, came back with a 229 in the finals to beat veteran rider Tom Shelly and Metalic Al by one point. The win was worth $13,676, taking Ichis My Choice&#8217;s career earnings over the quarter-million dollar mark.<\/p>\n<p>Ichis My Choice was bred by EE Ranches by Cat Ichi out of My Little Abra, an Abrakadabracre mare that was reserve champion of the Abilene Spectacular and that earned $64,000.<\/p>\n<p>J Five Ranch of Weatherford, Texas owns Ichis My Choice. J Five&#8217;s Constance Jaeggi won the Non-Pro Pacific Coast Derby on the mare earlier this year. Setnicka was the Breeders Invitational champion with the 4-year-old. Setnicka was also an NCHA Futurity finalist and Super Stakes reserve champion on Ichis My Choice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bozeman-stuart-20160724a.jpg\" alt=\"Stuart Bozeman\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/>Fresh from his win in the Non-Pro NCHA Classic Challenge, Stuart Bozeman of Idalou, Texas, and Checkers Live Oak marked 225 to earn $11,146 in the Mercuria finals at El Rancho. Janet Westfall placed second on Just As Reckless with a 221.<\/p>\n<p>Checkers Live Oak was bred by Dale Stallkamp by Im Countin Checks out of Cats Live Oak, a mare that won the Breeders Invitational Classic with Lloyd Cox in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Bozeman, an accomplished NRCHA competitor, bought the 6-year-old mare three years ago as a reined cow horse prospect, but switched her to cutting after the Snaffle Bit Futurity.<\/p>\n<p>Since then she has taken him to finals at the Pacific Coast Futurity and Derby, The Ike, West Texas, Cattlemen&#8217;s, the Bonanza, Idaho, El Rancho, and the AQHA World Show, earning more than $120,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Setnicka on Ichis My Choice and Stuart Bozeman on Checkers Live Oak, won the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12827,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions\/12827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}