{"id":18893,"date":"2021-03-11T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18893"},"modified":"2021-03-11T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:15:07","slug":"gavin-mesalam-tops-35k-non-pro-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18893","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Mesalam tops $35K Non-Pro Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Joseph
Gavin Mesalam on Dualcious. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Gavin Mesalam, Versailles, Ky., scored a 221.5-point win on Dualcious LTE $61,464, as the next-to-last rider in the 27-horse finals of the NCHA Eastern Nationals $35,000 Non-Pro championship, on Wednesday, March 10, in Jackson, Miss. Cody Cain, Chancellor, Ala., earned the reserve championship with 219.5 points on CD Cats Olena LTE $40,048, while Aden Bernhagen, Corsicana, Tex., placed third with 218 points on Dr Cuzin LTE $165,193.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gavin Mesalam, the NCHA earner of $12,595, placed fourth in the $15,000 Amateur Finals on Tuesday, riding Dualcious, and on Sunday showed Take It Eazee LTE $116,185 to place sixth in the Junior Youth Finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dualcious, by Halreycious, was a 2014 NCHA Futurity Open semi-finalist and Open Limited finalist under Wes Ashlock. The gelding was also a 2017 NCHA Super Stakes Classic Open Limited and Augusta Futurity Classic Open finalist under Gabe Reynolds, who showed him to place in the 2018 NCHA Eastern Nationals $25,000 Novice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Gavin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father, Randy Mesalam, the NCHA earner of $14,554, showed Dualcious to place ninth in the $35,000 Non-Pro, and yesterday placed tenth in the $35,000 Non-Pro riding 7-year-old Take It Eazee, by Smooth As A Cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cody
Cody Cain on CD Cats Olena. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Cody Cain, the NCHA earner of $9,600, was an NCHA Eastern Nationals Senior Youth finalist on Sunday, riding CD Cats Olena LTE $40,048, who he also showed as 2020 NCHA Eastern Nationals $2,000 Limited Rider reserve champion. In addition, Cain was a 2018 NCHA Eastern Nationals Junior Youth finalist showing Peponitas Gunner LTE $61,860 and as a $2,000 Limited Rider in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CD Cats Olena, a 17-year-old daughter of CD Olena, was bred by Gene Quirk, Jr., out of Cats Cassandra LTE $24,053, by High Brow Cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aden Bernhagen, the NCHA earner of $35,797 and his gelding Dr Cuzin topped the 2019 NCHA $2,000 Limited Rider World standings and claimed reserve in the 2020 $35,000 Non-Pro standings. The pair also won the 2019 NCHA $2,000 Limited Rider World Finals and the Junior Youth championship of the 2019 NCHA Western Nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to his third-place finish on Dr Cuzin in the $35,000 Non-Pro, Aden also showed GS Zans Cat LTE $200,944 on Sunday as a Junior Youth finalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seventeen-year-old Dr Cuzin, by Dual Rey, was bred by Kelly Schaar and trained and shown by Ronnie Rice as a limited age event finalist, including in the 2007 NCHA Futurity. Dr Cuzin is a full brother to Legal Dream LTE $198,920 out of  Short Candy LTE $132,953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCHA Eastern National Championships Presented by 6666 Ranch<\/a> continue through March 13, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gavin Mesalam scored a 221.5-point win on Dualcious, as the next-to-last rider in the 27-horse finals of the NCHA Eastern Nationals $35,000 Non-Pro championship, on Wednesday, March 10, in Jackson, Miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893","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=18893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18901,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions\/18901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}