{"id":15134,"date":"2018-07-20T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=15134"},"modified":"2018-07-20T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T03:52:30","slug":"bell-chimes-in-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=15134","title":{"rendered":"Bell chimes in on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15136\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mamas-too-smooth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mamas-too-smooth.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mamas-too-smooth-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Bell led Friday&#8217;s Unlimited Amateur competition on Mamas Too Smooth. Hart Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>July 20, 2018<\/em><br \/>\nDon Bell of Weatherford, Texas, marked 217.5 on Mamas Too Smooth to lead the first day of Rios of Mercedes Unlimited Amateur Derby competition at the NCHA\/Metallic Cat Summer Spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>Bell, who won the Limited Non-Pro championship at the 2012 NCHA Derby on Thundercat, has career earnings of $91,793. He also has prior Non-Pro titles with Rosie Mate from the West Texas Futurity and Cotton Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Mamas Too Smooth was bred by Mama&#8217;s Ranch by Smooth As A Cat out of Star Fillaree, by Grays Starlight. Star Fillaree has produced earners of $227,000, headed by Mamas Cats A Star, LTE $162,590.<\/p>\n<p>Bell and Mamas Too Smooth were Limited Non-Pro finalists at the 2017 NCHA Futurity, and went on to the Non-Pro semi-finals at the NCHA Super Stakes last spring.<\/p>\n<p>In the Amateur division, Charles Russell Bushaw led the first day with a 216.5 on Better Then Revenge, a High Brow Cat mare bred by his parents&#8217; Crown Ranch. Better Then Revenge is out of Badgers Playdough who has produced earners of $220,000.<\/p>\n<p>Bushaw won the $35,000 Non-Pro this year and last year&#8217;s Junior Youth at the NCHA Eastern Nationals riding Peptotoodie. He was an Unlimited Amateur finalist this spring at the NCHA Super Stakes with Better Then Revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Four riders marked 216 on Friday. In the Amateur division, there was\u00a0Gaia Salvatori on American Cat Beauty, by Smart Rey Pepto.<\/p>\n<p>In the Unlimited Amateur, the 216s went to Jacob Taurel on V Eight Smooth Ichi, by Smooth As A Cat, Lisa Bankston on Holdin Pocket Aces, by War Bird Dog, and Stacie McDavid on Desires Chromed Cat, by High Brow Cat.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of the Rios of Mercedes Amateur and Unlimited Amateur Derby continues Saturday, followed by the finals of the Open Classic Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernbloodstock.net\/ncha-summer-spectacular-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Bloodstock, Ltd. Mid-Year Cutting Horse Sale<\/a> begins at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 20, 2018 Don Bell of Weatherford, Texas, marked 217.5 on Mamas Too Smooth to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134","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=15134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15137,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134\/revisions\/15137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}