{"id":12639,"date":"2016-07-27T21:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T02:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12639"},"modified":"2016-08-01T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T01:10:42","slug":"john-hulsey-smokes-amateur-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12639","title":{"rendered":"John Hulsey smokes Amateur Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12642\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12642\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/r-smokin-cat-john-hulsey-20160727c.jpg\" alt=\"John Hulsey on R Smokin Cat.\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/r-smokin-cat-john-hulsey-20160727c.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/r-smokin-cat-john-hulsey-20160727c-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Hulsey on R Smokin Cat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Hulsey, 63, and R Smokin Cat marked 219 for a five-point win in the Rios of Mercedes Amateur Derby presented by Bar RR Ranches Wednesday at the NCHA Summer Spectacular, presented by Great American Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Thigpen Jr. took the reserve championship with a 214 on Barbies Blue Cat.<\/p>\n<p>Hulsey, whose environmental business supports the agricultural community by reclaiming food waste to be used for biofuels and by feedmills. The Gainesville, Georgia, businessman bred R Smokin Cat by Dual R Smokin out of Playgirls Cat, a High Brow Cat mare that has produced three NCHA money earners.<\/p>\n<p>Hulsey&#8217;s biggest previous win was the All American Congress Non-Pro Derby in 2009 on Cowgirls Paradise.<\/p>\n<p>He earned $7,812 for his Amateur Derby win, including $2,500 from Bar RR Ranches. That takes his career earnings over $36,000.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve champion Barbies Blue Cat is a Metallic Cat x High Barbie gelding bred and owned by Robert Thigpen Jr. of Chilton, Texas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12645\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12645\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thigpen.jpg\" alt=\"Reserve champion Robert Thigpen Jr. on Barbies Blue Cat.\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thigpen.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/thigpen-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reserve champion Robert Thigpen Jr. on Barbies Blue Cat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; John Hulsey, 63, and R Smokin Cat marked 219 for a five-point win in&#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-12639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639","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=12639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12685,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions\/12685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}