{"id":11683,"date":"2015-07-14T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2015-07-14T21:32:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T02:32:39","slug":"chex-my-cat-leads-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=11683","title":{"rendered":"Chex My Cat leads semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11684\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11684 \" title=\"Paul Hansma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150714.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Hansma\" width=\"175\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Hansma.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hall of Famer Paul Hansma and Chex My Cat marked 221 to lead the semi-finals of the Open Classic Challenge at the NCHA Summer Spectacular presented by Great American Insurance on July 14.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Galyean on Steven Feiner&#8217;s Little Rattler, by Dual Rey, was second with 220.5, while Beau Galyean was third with a 220 on Alvin and Becky Fults&#8217; Sannman, by Metallic Cat.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six horses marked 216 or better to advance to Friday&#8217;s finals.<\/p>\n<p>Bred by Sunrise Ranch, Chex My Cat is by Smooth As A Cat, out of Bueno Chex Dually, a mare that earned $153,000. Hansma rode Bueno Chex Dually to the reserve championship of the 2000 NCHA Derby, and posted major wins at Steamboat Springs, the Bonanza, and the SunCoast Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Bueno Chex Dually has produced earners of $698,000, including Cherry Chex Dually, winner of the Abilene Spectacular and Brazos Bash with Eddie Flynn, and the Amateur NCHA Classic Challenge with Jon Winkelried.<\/p>\n<p>Chex My Cat, owned by Hansma and his wife, Julie, was third in the Cattlemen&#8217;s Classic this spring. The Hansmas&#8217; daughter, McCall, was a Limited Non-Pro finalist on him at last year&#8217;s Summer Spectacular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Famer Paul Hansma and Chex My Cat marked 221 to lead the semi-finals&#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-11683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683","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=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11686,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}