{"id":10690,"date":"2013-11-09T18:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=10690"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:27:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:27:32","slug":"hat-trick-for-arc-ruby-playgunia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=10690","title":{"rendered":"Hat trick for Arc Ruby Playgunia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10658\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131011a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10658 \" title=\"Matt Budge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20131011a.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Budge\" width=\"134\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Budge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matt Budge marked a 227 on Jackpot Ranch&#8217;s Arc Ruby Playgunia to win the Open finals of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=10688\">Mercuria NCHA World Series of Cutting<\/a> at the American Royal Show in Kansas City on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The win comes hot on the heels of his World Series victory at the Quarter Horse Congress. And along with a win at the Houston Livestock Show &amp; Rodeo earlier in the year, Budge and Arc Ruby Playgunia have completed a World Series hat trick in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Only one other Open horse, Dont Look Twice with eight, has ever won more than two World Series of Cutting events.<\/p>\n<p>Arc Ruby Playgunia was bred by Arcese Quarter Horses by Playgun out of Ruby Bagonia, a six-figure earner that is out of $1.5 million producer Playboys Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-year-old mare has earned over $180,000 now and is sitting in a solid third place in the 2013 Open World Standings, behind One Time Choice and Mississippi Cat.<\/p>\n<p>One Time Choice, ridden by Chubby Turner for J Five Horse Ranch, marked 22.5 for second at the American Royal.<\/p>\n<p>In the Non-Pro division, 25-year-old Julie Jarma notched up her first Mercuria World Series win with a 222 on SS Blacks Lil Kitty. Constance Jaeggi placed second with a 214 on Montanas Cougar.<\/p>\n<p>SS Blacks Lil Kitty was bred by Starkey Smith by Blue Bayou Boon out of Show Biz Kitty, a daughter of World Champion Show Biz Sandy. Jarma won the Brazos Bash Non-Pro Classic and the Pacific Coast Limited Non-Pro on the mare last year. The 7-year-old mare has earned more than $85,000 with her Kansas City paycheck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Budge marked a 227 on Jackpot Ranch&#8217;s Arc Ruby Playgunia to win the Open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10692,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions\/10692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}