{"id":17048,"date":"2019-12-04T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T04:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17048"},"modified":"2019-12-05T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T06:02:44","slug":"talkin-smak-in-ltd-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17048","title":{"rendered":"Talkin&#8217; Smak in Ltd Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sugar_smak_rodrigo_toboga.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sugar_smak_rodrigo_toboga.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sugar_smak_rodrigo_toboga-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Sugar Smak, ridden by Rodrigo Taboga. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rodrigo Taboga and Sugar Smak marked 220 to be the first champions crowned at the 2019 Great American Insurance NCHA Futurity, presented by North Texas Chevy Dealers in Fort Worth&#8217;s historic Will Rogers Coliseum on December 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tin Man, shown by Zeb Corvin, took the reserve championship with a 218.5. Two riders, Justin White on Metallic Lil Jazz, and Corvin on Rosa Del Pepto, tied for third with 218 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bred by Chet Burrows, and owned by Bridget May Trenary of Nashville, Tennessee, Sugar Smak is by Kit Kat Sugar, out of the Smart Mate mare Mates Pretty Special, a mare that has also produced Special Wild Hair ($29,563).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mates Pretty Special&#8217;s dam, also produced Quixotes Pretty Lady ($91,494), which Sandy Bonelli rode to win the 1995 NCHA Non-Pro Derby, after placing seventh in the NCHA Open Futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family has also produced El Rancho Futurity champion Smart N Special ($55,909) and $2.8 million sire Justa Swinging Peppy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taboga, who was Brazil&#8217;s leading rider in 2017\/2018, placed third in last year&#8217;s Limited Open at the NCHA Futurity on The Dewd. He has had a string of successes this year, including championships at the Southern Derby, Ike Hamilton Derby and Classic, Breeders Invitational, Pacific Coast Futurity 5\/6-year-old, Brazos Bash Classic and West Texas Classic. His Limited Open win in the Futurity takes him over the $200,000 mark in NCHA earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tin_man_zeb_corvin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tin_man_zeb_corvin.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tin_man_zeb_corvin-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Tin Man, ridden by Zeb Corvin. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reserve champion Tin Man was bred by Linda Holmes and is owned by Stella Swanson of Midland, Texas. He is by Metallic Cat out of Nurse Moss, a mare that also produced Super Stakes reserve champion Melting Snow ($101,643). Nurse Moss is a full sister to #2 all-time leading sire Dual Rey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zeb Corvin has won Limited Open championships at the Breeders Invitational and the Pacific Coast Derby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrigo Taboga and Sugar Smak marked 220 to be the first champions crowned at 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-17048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048","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=17048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17054,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17048\/revisions\/17054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}