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 with Phil Rapp, the winning-est rider in Augusta history.

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

Kaitlyn Larsen and Laredo Montana
Kaitlyn 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 finals at Augusta.

“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.

“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.”

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.

Mary Jo Milner and Smooth As A Zee scored 222 points to claim the Non-Pro reserve title.