{"id":12475,"date":"2016-05-02T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T02:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:35:37","slug":"shaeffer-wins-second-western-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12475","title":{"rendered":"Shaeffer wins second Western title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12483\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12483\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/royal_play_red.jpg\" alt=\"Pam Shaeffer and Royal Play Red won the $50,000 Amateur championship.\" width=\"301\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/royal_play_red.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/royal_play_red-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Shaeffer and Royal Red Play won the $50,000 Amateur championship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pam Shaeffer of Banner, Wyoming, and Royal Red Play, by Play Red, marked 219 for a decisive win in the $50,000 Amateur finals at the 6666 Ranch NCHA Western National Championships in Denver Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Shaeffer and the 9-year-old gelding were also the Non-Pro champs at Western Nationals two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Hilary Watson of Westwood, Kansas and Leann Wilson of Saratoga Spring, Utah, tied for the reserve championship at 214.5.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Red Play was bred by Double Dove Ranch out of Peek A Boon, a daughter of all-time leading producer Royal Blue Boon. Peek A Boon was an NCHA Futurity finalist with Lindy Burch and has produced earners of more than $710,000.<\/p>\n<p>Shaeffer was an NCHA Futurity finalist with Royal Red Play in the Limited Non-Pro and Amateur classes. They went on to win limited age championships at the Utah Futurity and Western States Fall Futurity.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Red Play was also an Open finalist at this year&#8217;s Western Nationals with Todd Adolf, and has now earned more than $80,000.<\/p>\n<p>Co-reserve champion Hilary Watson rode Shady Lil CD, a 5-year-old High Brow CD mare out of Shady Lil Aristocrat. Co-reserve Leann Wilson rode Bada Boo, a 7-year-old gelding by One Time Pepto out of Travs Scooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam Shaeffer of Banner, Wyoming, and Royal Red Play, by Play Red, marked 219 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-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","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=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12487,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions\/12487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}