{"id":244846,"date":"2026-04-11T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244846\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:59:08","slug":"kent-farrington-leads-after-day-two-towards-sunday-finals-in-fort-worth-i-just-wanted-to-get-a-good-position-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244846\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Farrington leads after day two, towards Sunday Finals in Fort Worth! &#8220;I just wanted to get a good position today!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m really thinking about the Final here on Sunday, so I\u2019m trying to measure Greya&#8217;s efforts and measure my speed to put myself in the best position possible,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully we have some luck on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I came with a faster horse, so that made it much easier,\u201d he said. \u201cI just rode her normal round, and her normal round tonight I thought would be fast enough to win the class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seven combinations qualified for the jump-off on Friday. In the daily standings, Eiken Sato jumped to second place with Chadellano JRA (Chacco-Blue), ahead of Kevin Staut and the 17-year-old SF mare, Visconti du Tellman (Toulon).<\/p>\n<p>Stal Hendrix rider Oda Charlotte Lyngvaer also remained clear in the jump-off. Together with Carabella vd Neyen Z (Carrera VDL), the Norwegian jumped into fourth place. With one jumping fault, Steve Guerdat (SUI) completed the top five in the saddle of the 12-year-old sBs gelding, Albfuehren&#8217;s Iashin Sitte (Bamako de Muze).<\/p>\n<p>Kent Farrington remains in the lead<\/p>\n<p>Only the top 30 riders will be allowed to start in the final on Sunday. Kent Farrington is currently in the lead with 0 points. He leads ahead of Steve Guerdat (SUI), who is in second place with 4 points. Frenchman Kevin Staut is third with 6 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longinestiming.com\/equestrian\/2026\/the-fei-world-cup-finals-fort-worth-fort-worth-tx\/resultlist_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Results\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/results.hippodata.de\/2026\/2670\/docs\/fw_standings_after_wcf_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ranking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m really thinking about the Final here on Sunday, so I\u2019m trying to measure Greya&#8217;s efforts and measure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-244846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}