{"id":10997,"date":"2014-05-01T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2014-05-01T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:14:36","slug":"smart-stingrey-wins-at-western-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=10997","title":{"rendered":"Smart Stingrey wins at Western Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10999\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10999 \" title=\"Smart Stingrey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smart_stingrey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smart_stingrey.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/smart_stingrey-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Wood on Smart Stingrey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Mike Wood and Smart Stingrey marked 217 for a half-point win in the $10,000 Novice finals, the first championship decided at the 6666 Ranch NCHA Western Nationals in Denver on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Burgess took the reserve title with a 216.5 on his own Starlights Gypsy gelding.<\/p>\n<p>Smart Stingrey was bred by John McClaren by Dual Rey out of Smart Sandhill Kay, a Smart Mate mare that earned $45,000. Smart Stingrey is her first money earner, and the 8-year-old gelding has earned over $150,000, including an extensive aged event career with Lloyd Cox.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Wood trains Smart Stingrey for Michelle and Jeff LeMaster of Las Vegas, Nevada. He showed in the Mercuria NCHA World Finals in the $10,000 Novice division last winter.<\/p>\n<p>At Denver, he posted the top score in the go-round with a 221, and drew first in the first set of the finals for his championship run. He also qualified for the Open and the $3,000 Novice finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Wood and Smart Stingrey marked 217 for a half-point win in the $10,000 Novice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11001,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}