{"id":8496,"date":"2012-01-27T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T21:09:36","slug":"augusta-futurity-mercuria-world-series-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8496","title":{"rendered":"Augusta Futurity Mercuria World Series champions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phil Rapp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dont Look Twice, 2011 NCHA Horse of the Year, posted an Augusta Futurity record of 231 points last night, as she captured the Mercuria World Series championship<\/a> with Phil Rapp, the winning-est rider in Augusta history.<\/p>\n

“She’s one of a kind,” said Rapp, who shows the 7-year-old daughter of High Brow Cat for Waco Bend Ranch. “A tough cow, like her second one tonight, just takes her to that next level.”<\/p>\n

Last year, Dont Look Twice set an all-time NCHA record of 234 points at the Idaho Mercuria World Series of Cutting. With well over $600,000 in career earnings, she is on a course to become NCHA’s all-time leading mare, a record currently held by Meradas Little Sue with official earnings of $670,098.<\/p>\n

Rapp, 42, NCHA’s all-time leading rider with more than $7.5 million, was recently cleared by doctors to resume a full schedule of riding, following surgery 15 weeks ago to repair a herniated disc in his lower back.<\/p>\n

George C Merada, shown by John Wold for Furst Ranch, scored 225 points for the title of reserve champion of the Augusta Mercuria World Series.<\/p>\n

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Kaitlyn Larsen and Laredo Montana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kaitlyn Larsen and Laredo Montana<\/strong>
\nKaitlyn Larsen, 22, had an angel on her shoulder as she scored 224 points on Laredo Montana for her first major championship win in the Mercuria NCHA World Series Non-Pro<\/a> finals at Augusta.<\/p>\n

“He was with us,” said Larsen of her fiance, Reagon Walker, who died in a highway accident, while he and Kaitlyn were on the way to a cutting event in Oklahoma last April.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t mentally handle cutting for awhile. If it wasn’t for this horse, I don’t know if I would be back. Reagon loved this horse, too.”<\/p>\n

Seven-year-old Laredo Montana, by Light N Lena, is a homebred raised, trained and originally shown by Kaitlyn’s father, Billy Martin, who also owns Light N Lena.<\/p>\n

Mary Jo Milner and Smooth As A Zee scored 222 points to claim the Non-Pro reserve title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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