{"id":17272,"date":"2020-01-09T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17272"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T14:26:31","slug":"metallics-mvp-lives-up-to-his-title-in-abilene-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17272","title":{"rendered":"Metallics MVP lives up to his title in Abilene Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"93\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/abilene.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17259\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Metallics MVP, sired by Metallic Cat and shown by Beau Galyean for Billy Wolf, Whitesboro, Tex., scored 227 points on Wednesday night to win the Abilene Spectacular 5\/6-Year-Old Open Classic. Ms Baby Cakes, by Metallic Cat, scored 224 points for the reserve championship under Lloyd Cox, for Barker Ranch Cutting Horses, Madill, Okla. Sundance Jessie, sired by Metallic Cat and shown by John Mitchell for Slate River Ranch, Weatherford, Tex, placed third with 223.5 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five-year-old Metallics MVP came into the Abilene Spectacular\nwith $92,431 earned in eight limited age events, including as a finalist in the\n2018 NCHA Open Futurity, and as reserve champion of the Ike Hamilton Open Derby\nand the Pacific Coast Cutting Stakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lizzy Babe, the dam of Metallics MVP, earned $163,653 and\nis a half-sister to Moms Stylish Player LTE $402,019, as well as to Just U Babe,\nthe dam of &nbsp;2020 Abilene Spectacular\nFuturity Open Finalist Babes Smart Cat, shown by Tatum Rice. My Lizzy Babe and\nJust U Babe are out of Moms Stylish Babe, the dam of 11 earners of over $1.3\nmillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beau Galyean, Metallic MVP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rider, also showed 4-year-old Buonvino, owned by Billy Wolf and sired by Metallic Cat, as a finalist in the 2020 Abilene Spectacular Derby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Baby Cakes earned $110,363 prior to the 2020 Abilene\nSpectacular, including as winner of the 2019 West Texas Open Derby and the\nCotton Stakes 4-Year-Old Derby. Her dam, Special Nu Baby LTE $481,197, the 2015\nNCHA Open World Champion, is the producer of eight money earners, including\nSmooth Nu Cat LTE $193,816.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sundance Jessie LTE $58,612, earned the high-score of 224 points from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17261\">Open Classic go-round<\/a>. The 6-year-old Metallic Cat gelding was a top 10 finalist with John Mitchell last year in both the NCHA Super Stakes Classic and the NCHA Classic Challenge, and is a half-sibling, out of the Grays Starlight daughter Jessies Starlight Ms, to the earners of more than $650,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gullyranch.com\/abilenespectacular\/schedule.shtml\">here<\/a> for\ncomplete results from the 2020 Abilene Spectacular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metallics MVP, sired by Metallic Cat and shown by Beau Galyean for Billy Wolf, Whitesboro,&#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-17272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272","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=17272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17276,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}