{"id":12346,"date":"2016-04-13T21:07:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12346"},"modified":"2016-04-13T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:25:13","slug":"2016-super-stakes-semi-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12346","title":{"rendered":"2016 Super Stakes semi-finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12371\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/smooth-talkin-style-lloyd-cox-20150418d.jpg\" alt=\"Last year, Smooth Talkin Style and Dont Stopp Believin were co-champions of the NCHA Super Stakes.\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/smooth-talkin-style-lloyd-cox-20150418d.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/smooth-talkin-style-lloyd-cox-20150418d-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/smooth-talkin-style-lloyd-cox-20150418d-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/smooth-talkin-style-lloyd-cox-20150418d-1024x535.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last year, Smooth Talkin Style and Dont Stopp Believin were co-champions of the NCHA Super Stakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sixty horses marked cumulative scores of 431.5 or better to advance to Friday&#8217;s semi-finals for the 2016 Lucas Oil NCHA Super Stakes. They were led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12312\">Moms Stylish Player<\/a>, whose 445 is being hailed by old-timers as a Super Stakes record.<\/p>\n<p>The contenders range from those looking for their first payday to six-figure earner Amandas CD, an NCHA Futurity finalist with two major championships under her belt already.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Super Stakes champions heading to the semi-finals include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clint Allen (Wood I Never, 2007 &#8211; co-champion with Copaspepto)<\/li>\n<li>Gary Bellenfant (MNY Peppy Star Rio, 1989 and Bayou Shorty (DNA), 1996)<\/li>\n<li>Lloyd Cox (Smooth Talkin Style, 2015 &#8211; co-champion with Dont Stopp Believin)<\/li>\n<li>Lee Francois (Reys Desire, 2010)<\/li>\n<li>Matt Gaines (Sunettes Dually, 2001 and One Time Pepto, 2005)<\/li>\n<li>Wesley Galyean (Hes A Hot Cat, 2013)<\/li>\n<li>Clay Johnson (KR Isadora Dual, 2012)<\/li>\n<li>John Mitchell (Junie Wood, 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Boyd Rice (Third Cutting, 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Austin Shepard (High Brow CD, 2008 -\u00c2\u00a0 co-champion with Playin N Fancy Smart)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smooth As A Cat is the sire of 12 semi-finalists. Dual Rey has 11 in the semis and Metallic Cat has 8.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a detailed look at the horses with a shot at the big money, broken down by working order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12364\">Set 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12362\">Set 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12360\">Set 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12358\">Set 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12356\">Set 5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty horses marked cumulative scores of 431.5 or better to advance to Friday&#8217;s semi-finals for&#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-12346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346","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=12346"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12374,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions\/12374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}