{"id":12672,"date":"2016-07-28T23:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T04:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12672"},"modified":"2016-07-28T23:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T04:27:42","slug":"no-passing-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12672","title":{"rendered":"No passing Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12673\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lane-cooper-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Lane Cooper on Holly Is SMooth.\" width=\"500\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lane-cooper-blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/lane-cooper-blog-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lane Cooper on Holly Is SMooth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fort Worth&#8217;s Will Rogers Coliseum has been ground zero for great cutting horses and riders over the past half century, but 17-year-old Lane Cooper may have one-upped them all in the Faith Mountain Ranch NYCHA Senior Scholarship Cutting Thursday at the NCHA Summer Spectacular, presented by Great American Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Riding Holly Is Smooth, Cooper marked 233, which is believed to be an arena record for NCHA-produced events. That gave him a 7 1\/2-point lead over reserve champion Regan Plendl.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, of Weatherford, Texas, has ridden Hall of Fame Horses Auspicious Cat and SL Jaybird in past Scholarship Cuttings. On Thursday, he was on board Holly Is Smooth, a Smooth As A Cat x Holly N Zack mare bred by Kyle Manion and owned by Rose Valley Ranch. Ten-year-old Holly Is Smooth has earned more than $224,000.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper&#8217;s dad, Michael Cooper, is an NCHA Hall of Fame Rider with earnings of $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve champion Regan Plendl of Kinglsey, Iowa, has already earned more than $100,000 in NCHA competition. She marked 225.5 on Joe Wes Davis&#8217; C Spot Cut, and 8-year-old son of Spots Hot that Garrett Hampton rode to win the 2014 Senior Scholarship Cutting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12676\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/regan-plendl-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Regan Plendl on C Spot Cut.\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/regan-plendl-blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/regan-plendl-blog-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regan Plendl on C Spot Cut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth&#8217;s Will Rogers Coliseum has been ground zero for great cutting horses and riders&#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-12672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672","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=12672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12677,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions\/12677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}