{"id":12396,"date":"2016-04-15T21:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12396"},"modified":"2016-04-15T21:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T02:39:20","slug":"rice-rises-to-the-occasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12396","title":{"rendered":"Rice rises to the occasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12398\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/katie_rice.jpg\" alt=\"Katie Rice and Miss Laureyna won the Ltd Non-Pro finals Friday.\" width=\"329\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/katie_rice.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/katie_rice-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katie Rice and Miss Laureyna won the Ltd Non-Pro finals Friday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Katie Rice of Centerville, Texas, and Miss Laureyna went to the herd next-to-last in the 14-horse Limited Non-Pro finals at the Lucas Oil NCHA Super Stakes on Friday and marked 220.5 for a two and a half point win.<\/p>\n<p>Rice and Miss Laureyna, have also qualified for Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12387\">Non-Pro finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Laureyna was bred by Center Ranch by Smart Royal Rey out of CR Hot Meow, a mare by Spots Hot out of Dees Cats Meow.<\/p>\n<p>Dees Cats Meow, in turn, earned $134,000 and has produced earners of $187,000 including CR First Tuff, third-placed with Katie&#8217;s father-in-law, Boyd Rice, in the 2013 Open Super Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Rice and Miss Laureyna won the Limited Non-Pro at the Cattlemen&#8217;s Derby this spring, and were reserve champions in that class at Arbuckle Mountain. They also made the Non-Pro finals at Cattlemen&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>This was Rice&#8217;s biggest win to date, earning her an estimated $8,654. Her biggest career paycheck was for more than $9,900 as reserve champion at the Tunica Classic on Lenas Star War.<\/p>\n<p>Don Bell took the reserve championship with a 218 in the Lucas Oil Ltd Non-Pro Super Stakes, riding Catish.<\/p>\n<p>Bred by Dottie St. Clair Hill, Catish is a gelding by High Brow Cat out of Peppys Stylish Lena, an earner of $176,000 that was a successful Non-Pro horse for Cole Rothwell.<\/p>\n<p>Catish was an Open NCHA Futurity semi-finalist with Tom Dvorak, and picked up several Open checks with Beau Galyean at the Ike Hamilton Futurity. Bell rode the gelding to third in the Limited Non-Pro at Arbuckle Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Don Bell previously won the Limited Non-Pro at the 2012 NCHA Derby riding Thundercat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Rice of Centerville, Texas, and Miss Laureyna went to the herd next-to-last in 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-12396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396","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=12396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12402,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396\/revisions\/12402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}