{"id":126,"date":"2007-01-09T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T22:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-01-09T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T23:20:10","slug":"marvine-ranch-serves-a-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Marvine Ranch serves a double"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvine Ranch, Meeker, CO, scored a double in Abilene Spectacular open competition, when Quintan Blue and Roger Wagner (pictured) won today’s 5 & 6-Year-Old Classic with 228 points. Copaspepto had won the Abilene Spectacular 4-Year-Old division<\/a> for Marvine Ranch under Tag Rice, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Dual Smart Rey, ridden by Phil Rapp for Strawn Valley Ranch, set today’s bar with a winning 226-point performance as the first horse in the second set of the Classic. But Quintan Blue and Wagner, who had topped the go-rounds with 439 points, drew twelfth to work and left no doubt that they were out to beat Dual Smart Rey’s score.<\/p>\n

With the $21,000 win, Quintan Blue, the NCHA earner of $476,236, now ranks sixth among all-time leading cutting mares, behind Meradas Little Sue ($670,098), Little Badger Dulce ($657,276), Chiquita Pistol ($524,243), Miss Silver Pistol ($504,286), and Little Pepto Gal ($480,965).<\/p>\n

“I’ve never ridden one as smart as she is,” said Wagner of the Mecom Blue daughter. “I Sho Spensive was a great mare. She was a hell of an athlete and fast and quick to the stop. But this mare is on her own as far as I’m concerned as to how she thinks about a cow.”<\/p>\n

I Sho Spensive, previously owned by Jim Vangilder, Jackson, MO, and shown by Wagner, was purchased by Jon Winkelreid, co-president of Goldman Sachs investment banks and owner of Marvine Ranch, in 2005 from Peter and Nora Stent, who had acquired the mare from Vangilder.<\/p>\n

Last summer, Winkelreid purchased Quintan Blue from Vangilder, who had ridden her as champion of the 2006 NCHA Super Stakes Non-Pro Classic and the 2005 NCHA Non-Pro Derby. Wagner had also ridden the mare as reserve champion of the 2004 NCHA Futurity.<\/p>\n

“It was a hard decision,” said Wagner, Vangilder’s resident trainer and adviser, referring to the sale of Quintan Blue. “We had people interested in her, of course. But Jon came with a pretty stout offer. It was a lot of money to turn down.”<\/p>\n

You can listen to announcer’s Tom Holt’s observations on the Abilene Spectacular on Cutting Edge News through www.nchacutting.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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