{"id":17396,"date":"2020-02-18T22:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T03:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17396"},"modified":"2020-02-18T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T03:34:09","slug":"woody-be-lucky-2000-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17396","title":{"rendered":"Woody Be Lucky, 2000\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1208_fc.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17395\" width=\"270\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1208_fc.png 248w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1208_fc-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Woody Be Lucky, ranked #6 with $699,276, among official NCHA all-time leading money earners, passed away on February 17, according to owner Dan Hansen. The Nitas Wood-sired gelding helped NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame honoree Hansen win two NCHA Non-Pro World Championships and also carried him to two NCHA Non-Pro  World  Finals wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bred by Craig Crumpler, Wichita Falls, Tex., Woody Be Lucky\nwon the 2004 Bonanza 4-Year-Old Open with Don Crumpler and placed in numerous\nother limited age open and non-pro events under Don Crumpler and Karen Hansen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2007, Dan Hansen stepped aboard, and with 7-year-old Woody\nBe Lucky as his main mount, earned $101,578, to win the 2007 NCHA Non-Pro World\nChampionship. &nbsp;Over the next seven years,\nHansen and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Freak\u00e2\u20ac\u009d became standard fixtures in annual NCHA World Non-Pro Top 10\nstandings. In addition to Non-Pro World Championships in 2007 and 2011, Hansen and\nWoody Be Lucky won NCHA Non-Pro World Finals titles in 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Freak responds to the crowd and loves what he does,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said\nHansen, following his 2012 World Finals win. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I trust him completely on cattle.\nHe reads them so well and is so smart about it. When one is trying to be tricky\nand I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to do, I just let him do it. He knows where\nwe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following back-to-back wins in the NCHA World Series at San\nAntonio and Houston, the distinguished gelding was retired in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woody Be Lucky is the leading money earner of Nitas Wood, whose #5 leading money earner is Woody Be Tuff LTE $351,063, the sire of earners of $4.2 million. Woody Be Luckys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dam, Playboys Ladyluck LTE $29,675, by Freckles Playboy, was a 1985 NCHA Super Stakes and Derby Non-Pro finalist with Craig Crumpler. Playboys Ladyluck is a full sister to Playful Scotty LTE $198,001, a 1988 NCHA Futurity Open finalist (7th) under John Tolbert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woody Be Lucky, ranked #6 with $699,276, among official NCHA all-time leading money earners, passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396","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=17396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17401,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17396\/revisions\/17401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}