{"id":12276,"date":"2016-04-03T21:20:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12276"},"modified":"2016-04-03T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T03:22:19","slug":"sitton-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12276","title":{"rendered":"Sitton on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12279\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ken_sitton.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Sitton won the NCHA Super Stakes Classic Limited Non-Pro on Little Swiss Desire.\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ken_sitton.jpg 322w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ken_sitton-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Sitton won the NCHA Super Stakes Classic Limited Non-Pro on Little Swiss Desire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ken Sitton and Little Swiss Desire, by Desires Little Rex, marked 218 to win the Limited Non-Pro finals of the Lucas Oil NCHA Super Stakes Classic in Fort Worth Sunday evening. Sitton, a 57-year-old trucking company owner from Freeport, Texas, also took the senior championship.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Taylor of Pilot Point, Texas, marked 214.5 on Scootin In Stilettos, by Smart Lil Scoot, for the reserve championship.<\/p>\n<p>Little Swiss Desire was bred by Jerry Durant out of Swiss Cat, a major LAE finalist that also produced $165,000 earner Swiss Cat Pepto.<\/p>\n<p>Sitton bought Little Swiss Desire last fall and promptly won the Limited Non-Pro, Unlimited Amateur, Senior Unlimited Amateur and Senior Non-Pro on the mare at the Waco Texas Futurity.<\/p>\n<p>Sitton, who has been cutting about 19 years, was getting his first win in Will Rogers Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>A former defensive back stand-out for the Oklahoma Sooners and a 1981 draft pick by Baltimore, Sitton said football brings out aggression, but cutting requires a more laid-back approach.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve champion Lisa Taylor was riding her home-bred 6-year-old mare Scootin In Stilettos. She was an AQHA World Show finalist on the mare&#8217;s dam, Visa Lena, and has earned checks at the NCHA Classic Challenge, The Bonanza, and the Ike Hamilton Classic on Scootin In Stilettos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Sitton and Little Swiss Desire, by Desires Little Rex, marked 218 to win the&#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-12276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276","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=12276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12282,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions\/12282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}