{"id":354,"date":"2007-12-07T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2007-12-07T09:03:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:03:52","slug":"mary-bradford-leads-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Mary Bradford tops Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/bradford_mary_20071206.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/><em>From NCHA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchacutting.com\/futurity\/dailychatter.shtml\" title=\"Daily Chatter\">Daily Chatter<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nA day after marking a 216 on Justa Indian Maiden, Mary Bradford, Weatherford, TX, turned it up a notch in yesterday&#8217;s second set with 217 points on Bit Of Young Gun.<\/p>\n<p>The gelding is by Young Gun out of the Smart And Trouble daughter Little Bitty Angel, a Super Stakes Open finalist. He was a $5,000 purchase at the 2006 Western Bloodstock Summer Sale, where Bradford&#8217;s husband, Milt, liked the way he worked on cattle.<\/p>\n<p>Bradford, who qualified for the Non-Pro Futurity finals three years in a row, starting in 2003, said she hasn&#8217;t shown since July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had anything to practice on except those two 3-year-olds, so I was a little nervous coming in here,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But he&#8217;s very consistent. He&#8217;s very easy to ride and very honest. He&#8217;s been a good horse all the way through. He feels very mature, very strong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nerves get you more than anything,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Remembering what your job is and not making it too complicated is the main thing. Paul has been working me hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Hansma has been training both of Bradford&#8217;s horses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=353\" title=\"Gail Hooper\">Gail Hooper<\/a> held the overall lead at the conclusion of the first go-round of Non-Pro competition.<\/p>\n<p>Read more stories from the NCI Building Systems NCHA Futurity in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchacutting.com\/futurity\/2007dailychatter\/1207dcweb.pdf\" title=\"Daily Chatter, 12\/6\/2007\"><em>Daily Chatter<\/em><\/a>, edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/\" title=\"Sally Harrison's blog\">Sally Harrison<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NCHA&#8217;s Daily Chatter A day after marking a 216 on Justa Indian Maiden, Mary&#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-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}