{"id":16551,"date":"2019-07-25T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T02:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=16551"},"modified":"2019-07-25T23:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T04:49:04","slug":"grant-martin-wins-derby-amateur-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=16551","title":{"rendered":"Grant Martin wins Derby Amateur Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cd_stylish_catt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cd_stylish_catt.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cd_stylish_catt-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Grant Martin on CD Stylish Catt. Ted Petit Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant Martin, Hensley, Ark., scored 217 points on CD Stylish\nCatt, by Sophisticated Catt, to win the Rios of Mercedes Amateur Finals of the\n2019 Metallic Cat NCHA Summer Spectacular. James Hooper, Decatur, Ala., claimed\nreserve with 215.5 points on Princess Metallic, by Metallic Cat, while Ty\nDecordova, Groesbeck, Tex., placed third with 215 points on CR Maximum Tufness,\nby Woody Be Tuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant Martin and CD Stylish Catt LTE $15,616 had a good\nstart coming into the Summer Spectacular. They had placed sixth in the 2018 NCHA\nFuturity Amateur Finals, claimed reserve in the 2019 Non-Pro Cutting Amateur\nFinals. They also placed seventh in the Arbuckle Mountain Futurity Amateur\nFinals, as well as seventh in the Ike Hamilton Futurity Amateur Unlimited. CD\nStylish Catt is out of a half-sister to Stylish Top Brow LTE $185,140.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Martin, the NCHA earner of $41,347, showed TR Reyn\nDancer LTE $16,078, the horse he rode as a 2017 Senior Youth Finalist, to win\nthe NCHA Eastern Nationals $15,000 Amateur Finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/princess_metallic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/princess_metallic.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/princess_metallic-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>James Hooper on Princess Metallic. Ted Petit Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>James Hooper, the NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame earner of\n$959,770, bred Princess Metallic out of Spots A Playin LTE $40,721, by Spots\nHot, a mare that he and his wife Gail had shown successfully in Non-Pro limited\nage competition. Spots A Playin also produced Princess Metallic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s full brother,\nPlayin Heavy Metal LTE $117,543, bred by Jody Galyean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Hooper showed Metallic Reyn Man LTE $21,308, by\nMetallic Cat, to place seventh in the NCHA Futurity Amateur Unlimited Finals\nand to earn money in three Futurity non-working finals, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ty Decordova, the NCHA earner of $33,075, has shown CR Maximum Tufness as a finalist in two divisions of three major events this year. The pair placed third in the Breeders Invitational Non-Pro Limited and seventh in the Breeders Invitational Amateur, and they were also Amateur finalists in the NCHA Super Stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Martin, Hensley, Ark., scored 217 points on CD Stylish Catt, by Sophisticated Catt, 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551","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=16551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16565,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions\/16565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}