{"id":13686,"date":"2017-06-25T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=13686"},"modified":"2017-06-25T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T00:21:15","slug":"mckenzie-mcbride-wins-first-major-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=13686","title":{"rendered":"McKenzie McBride wins first major title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13687\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13687\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/RM-Lightning-Merada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/RM-Lightning-Merada.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/RM-Lightning-Merada-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKenzie McBride and RM Lightning Merada won the <br \/>$2,000 Limited Rider finals. Ted Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fresh from a spot in yesterday&#8217;s Senior Youth finals, McKenzie McBride of Fort Lupton, Colorado, marked 221 to win her first major title in the $2,000 Limited Rider finals at the NCHA Denver Nationals on June 25.<\/p>\n<p>Jaime Lynn Lucas, who won the Senior Youth championship, was reserve in the $2,000 Rider with a 219, followed by Samantha Cajka and Meghan Walters, both marking 216.<\/p>\n<p>McBride rode RM Lightning Merada, a 5-year-old Cats Merada x Choice Jewels gelding bred and owned by Reed McClymont. The gelding was a $5,000 Novice finalist with Kenny Platt earlier in the show, and has earned more than $37,000.<\/p>\n<p>McBride&#8217;s win continued a string of success for Team Platt. Kenny won the $5,000 Novice with Dualin Smooth Legacy, the Open with Little Lenas Cat, and placed second in the $25,000 Novice with Cats Out Of The Bag.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, McBride was a $2,000 Limited Rider and Junior Youth finalist at the NCHA Western National Championships, as well as placing in the finals of the NYCHA Senior Youth Scholarship Cutting in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=13679\">Jaime Lynn Lucas<\/a> of Crockett, Texas, rode Doc Holirey in the $2,000 Limited Rider finals. The 5-year-old gelding is by Dual Rey out of Hissy Cat.<\/p>\n<p>In third place, Samantha Cajka of Lincoln, Nebraska, rode CR Spoonful Of Lucy, a 6-year-old mare by Hes A Peptospoonful out of Lucindas Catolena. Meghan Walters of Dorchester, Nebraska, rode Down And Twisted, a 14-year-old gelding by Freckles Fancy Twist out of Royal Sunetta, owned by Ralph &amp; Brenda Lipsey Partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from a spot in yesterday&#8217;s Senior Youth finals, McKenzie McBride of Fort Lupton, Colorado,&#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-13686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686","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=13686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13688,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13686\/revisions\/13688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}