{"id":12184,"date":"2016-03-09T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12184"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:30:46","slug":"good-turn-for-twistful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12184","title":{"rendered":"Good turn for Twistful Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7012\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/shepard_sam_20110310.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Shepard\" width=\"180\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/shepard_sam_20110310.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/shepard_sam_20110310-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Shepard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sam Shepard marked 219.5 on Twistful Thinking to lead the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchacutting.com\/eastern\/i065721.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">first round of the $5,000 Novice<\/a> at the 6666 Ranch NCHA Eastern National Championships in Jackson, Mississippi Tuesday. Thirty horses scored 215 or higher to advance to the finals scheduled for Thursday, March 10.<\/p>\n<p>Twistful Thinking was bred by Charles Israel by One Time Pepto out of Some Kinda Twister, a daughter of NCHA Futurity Champion Some Kinda Memories. The five-year-old mare is owned by Sam&#8217;s son, Austin, and Stacy Shepard. Twistful Thinking has accumulated the bulk of her $144,000 bankroll with Sam&#8217;s teenage grandson, Cade Shepard. Cade won the Non-Pro NCHA Super Stakes and NCHA Derby last year on the mare.<\/p>\n<p>Three horses tied with 219 for the second highest score of the go-round. They were Doctor Love, a son of High Brow CD owned by Julie Beasley and ridden by Allen Crouch; Ichi Sangria, a Cat Ichi mare shown by Guy Woods for EE Ranches; and Tommie Canduit, a Thomas E Hughes mare owned by Vick Etheridge and shown by Josh Dozier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Shepard marked 219.5 on Twistful Thinking to lead the first round of the $5,000&#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-12184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184","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=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12185,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/12185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}