{"id":9678,"date":"2012-12-07T07:31:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T12:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2012-12-07T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:10:32","slug":"mercuria-world-finals-heat-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9678","title":{"rendered":"Mercuria NCHA World Finals heat up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9679\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/home_20121207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9679 \" title=\"Dan Hansen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/home_20121207.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Hansen\" width=\"262\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/home_20121207.jpg 374w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/home_20121207-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Hansen on Woody Be Lucky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dan Hansen came to the Mercuria NCHA World Finals out of range of winning his third Non-Pro World Championship, but he&#8217;s making a strong bid for the World Finals title after winning his second of three rounds last night at Fort Worth&#8217;s Watt Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Riding 12-year-old Woody Be Lucky, Hansen marked 228 on Thursday to overtake Brandon Dufurrena who marked 226.5 on Nievas and Kaitlyn Larsen who marked 225 on Laredo Montana.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen had marked 229 for a first-round win, followed by a 222.5 second to Dufurrena in the second round. That gives him a running total of 679.5 points in the World Finals, 5.5 ahead of Dufurrena, with Saturday&#8217;s final round and a non-working finals yet to go.<\/p>\n<p>With his World Finals earnings so far, Woody Be Lucky, who goes by the barn name of &#8220;Freak,&#8221; has a career total of $580,000 and climbing. Hansen and Woody Be Lucky also won the World Finals last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Non-Pro World Championship race is coming down to a three-way sprint to the finish for Mary Jo Milner, Dufurrena and Larsen. Milner, who has been campaigning on Smooth Asa Zee all year, holds the lead with $90,136 in her bid to win a record eighth NCHA Non-Pro World Championship. Dufurrena has moved into second with $84,034, and Larsen is within striking distance at $83,076. A rider can still pick up as much as $12,070 in Saturday&#8217;s fourth round and non-working finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Hansen came to the Mercuria NCHA World Finals out of range of winning his&#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-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678","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=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9686,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions\/9686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}