{"id":12898,"date":"2016-11-24T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12898"},"modified":"2016-11-26T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T20:18:00","slug":"merry-eyes-lead-with-20-20-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=12898","title":{"rendered":"Merry eyes lead with 20-20 vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12902\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12902\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161123.jpg\" alt=\"Cara Brewer on Metallic Merry. Hart Photography.\" width=\"540\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161123.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161123-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cara Brewer on Metallic Merry. Hart Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Metallic Merry and Cara Brewer matched their 220 in the first round with a 220 in the second to take the lead in the first day of Open second-round competition Wednesday at the Jerry&#8217;s Chevrolet NCHA Futurity, presented by Great American Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Their cumulative 440 put them half a point ahead of Tatum Rice on Hashtags who marked 220,5 and 219 for a 439.5.<\/p>\n<p>Metallic Merry is a bay roan mare bred by Cindy McIlvanie and owned by Michelle and Michael Merkley of Peoria, Illinois. She is by Metallic Cat out of Playguns Star, a Playgun mare that Cara Brewer&#8217;s mother, Sue Barry, rode to fifth place in the 2001 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity.<\/p>\n<p>Playguns Star earned $115,000 and has produced five money earners, including Stars And Cats, a three-quarter sister to Metallic Merry that Brewer rode to the Breeders Invitational finals.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer, who has earned more than $900,000, won the 2004 NCHA Super Stakes on Playin Tag. She is a two-time NCHA Futurity finalist, in 2004 and 2008.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Metallic Merry&#8217;s score held up to lead after the second round of the Open. Sixty-four horses marked 432.5 or better to advance to the semi-finals, scheduled for Friday, December 9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metallic Merry and Cara Brewer matched their 220 in the first round with a 220&#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-12898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898","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=12898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12907,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}