{"id":16982,"date":"2019-11-29T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=16982"},"modified":"2019-11-30T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T16:04:09","slug":"rice-rises-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=16982","title":{"rendered":"Rice rises to the top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Metallika_20191129.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Metallika_20191129.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Metallika_20191129-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Caitlin Rice on Metallika. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Caitlin Rice of Weatherford, Texas, marked 226 on Metallika, as the second rider to the herd, to win the first round of the 7 Ranch NCHA World Finals in Fort Worth&#8217;s Watt Arena on November 29, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a teenager, Rice had ranked in the Top 10 in the World Standings in the $10,000 Amateur in 2001, and in the $20,000 Non-Pro in 2003 and 2004, but this is her World Finals debut in the Non-Pro division. She came into the Finals ranked 10th in the World Standings. With Friday&#8217;s performance, she leapfrogs to sixth place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her mount, Metallika, is a 9-year-old gelding bred by Billy Martin by Metallic Cat out of Nyoka Pep, a mare that carried Martin to both the Open and Non-Pro finals of the 1998 NCHA Futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caitlin&#8217;s husband, Scotty, and brother-in-law, Tag Rice, showed Metallika in Non-Pro and Open aged events, respectively. Tag won the Breeders Invitational and The Brazos Bash Classic on the gelding. Metallika brings lifetime earnings of more than $173,000 into the World Finals. Caitlin Rice has career earnings of $260,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blakley Colgrove marked 222 on Cat Man Blue to place second in the first round of the World Finals. Cat Man Blue is a High Brow Cat x Quintan Blue stallion bred by Jim Vangilder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colgrove, who placed third in last year&#8217;s NCHA Non-Pro Futurity on Smooth Magick, was a Non-Pro World Finalist in 2015, placing seventh in the final standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Good of Ringling, Oklahoma, has the math on her side to be the 2019 NCHA Non-Pro World Champion. She came into the World Finals with an unbeatable $38,000 lead in the standings. At age 20, she will be the youngest NCHA Non-Pro World Champion in history. She&#8217;s riding Cat Atat Cat in the World Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Rice of Weatherford, Texas, marked 226 on Metallika, as the second rider to the&#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-16982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982","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=16982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17003,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982\/revisions\/17003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}