Mercuria World Series of Cutting

Finals in the first leg of the Mercuria World Series last night. Stayed up `til 3am watching the live webcast. Tough, tough going! Laredo Montana and Kaitlyn Larsen won an exciting Non Pro finals scoring 224. Smooth Asa Zee and Oh Cay Felix 2nd and 3rd respectively. Great horses in the Non Pro. Sister CD, Woody Be Lucky were some of the others.
Laredo Montana

Non Pro finals

Dont Look Twice & Phil Rapp were at it again in the open! Slappin the cows and competition silly, they again marked a whopping 231! The Cats Merada son George C Merada finishing 2nd with a strong 225.

Dont Look Twice

Open finals

Reason for staying up late, Ed Dufurrena and his 2 finalists, Miss Ella Rey & Auspicious Cat had it tough in the finals. Ella got a rough start with her first cow and never really recovered. A 216 is not nearly close to her ability. Auspicious Cat were last to enter the herd of tough and very sticky cows. Ed really wanted it and he cut hard and with a purpose. Looked pretty good until his 3rd and final cow put a tricky move on him in the waining seconds of the run. "Ozzy" lost that one and thus the chance for a bigger check. He's still one of the better looking HBC studs out there and I'm still tooting his horn big time!

Ozzy