Nick Haness Tops His Second $30,000 WCHR Professional Finals at 2025 Capital Challenge Horse Show
Nick Haness of Temecula, CA, won for the second time in the $30,000 World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) Professional Finals, presented by World Wide Technology.
The $30,000 WCHR Professional Finals, presented by World Wide Technology, featured the top four hunter riders in the country riding unfamiliar horses. The riders competed on four horses chosen from a donated group of horses that were presented to the judges and ground jury on Friday morning. Seven were chosen to move forward to the schooling round in the ring before the start of the class, and from there, four were used in the class. For the first time, the final round was a handy course on a borrowed horse. The course designers – Ken Krome, Meghan Rawlins, and Joe Carnicom – came up with a clever design that featured the final four fences as options, which included a bounce.
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Nick Haness Tops His Second $30,000 WCHR Professional Finals — Capital Challenge Horse Show