{"id":18341,"date":"2020-11-29T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T04:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18341"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:44:04","slug":"miller-dominates-day-2-of-world-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18341","title":{"rendered":"Miller dominates Day 2 of World Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/metallic-smart-cat-sunday.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/metallic-smart-cat-sunday.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/metallic-smart-cat-sunday-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><figcaption>Megan Miller on Round 2 winner Metallic Smart Cat. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Riding Metallic Smart Cat, Megan Miller of Poolville, Tex. scored 229 for an eight-point win in the second round of the NCHA Non-Pro World Finals on Sunday, November 29, in Fort Worth&#8217;s Watt Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katherine Whitby placed second with a 221 on Dual Rider, while Ali Good was third with a 220.5 on Cat Atat Cat. Elizabeth Quirk, riding Reystylin Smooth earned sixth-place money with a 218.5, which was enough to give her an unbeatable lead in the race for the year-end World Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megan Miller, who was inducted into the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame in 2010, has lifetime earnings of $1,252,260. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a two-time winner of the NCHA Super Stakes (Itawtathenapuddycat in 2009 and Carolena Reyn in 2018) and Super Stakes Classic (Travs Scooter, 2009 and Carolena Reyn, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metallic Smart Cat LTE $203,447, her only World Championship mount for 2020, was bred by Cynthia Villa, by Metallic Cat out of Smart Jerri Lee LTE $52,721. Smart Jerry Lee has produced earners of $399,538, including Smartlee As A Cat LTE $64,284.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katherine Whitby of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. rode Dual Rider to the NCHA $5,000 Novice Non-Pro World Championship last year. She has career earnings of $68,053 and she and Dual Rider were finalists in two legs of the popular Way Out West Series this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dual Rider is a 9-year-old gelding bred by the late Skip Jacques, by Flo Rider out of Bella Dual. Bella Dual&#8217;s dam, Santa Belle, was a Top 5 Open horse in 1993 and has produced earners of $776,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Quirk, who tied with Megan Miller to lead the first round, secured her 2020 World Championship with Sunday&#8217;s $1,931 paycheck. With her 2018 World Championship, she will join Mary Jo Milner, Carol Rose and Debbie Patterson as women who have won more than one NCHA Non-Pro World Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding Metallic Smart Cat, Megan Miller of Poolville, Tex. scored 229 for an eight-point win&#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-18341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341","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=18341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18356,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions\/18356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}