{"id":17292,"date":"2020-01-20T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17292"},"modified":"2020-01-20T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:59:18","slug":"a-is-for-austin-and-augusta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17292","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is for Austin and Augusta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/augusta2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17295\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/augusta2020.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/augusta2020-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/augusta2020-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Austin Shepard, the NCHA Hall of Fame earner of over $8.1 million, holds the record for Augusta Open championship wins, with five in the Futurity and three in the 5\/6 Classic. He claimed last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Futurity with 225 points on Bama Jelly LTE $149,005, by Bamacat, and on Sunday, January 19, he showed Bama Jelly to top the 2020 Augusta Futurity 5\/6 Classic qualifying go round, with 222.5 points,. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Bama Jelly, bred and owned by Madalyn Colgrove, Boligee, Ala., Shepard also qualified for the finals with 221.5 points, the go-round\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third-highest score, riding CR Dualin Out Tough LTE $70,239, sired by Woody Be Tuff and owned by Julie Beasley, and with 221 points on Dual Reyish LTE $371,608, the 2017 NCHA Futurity champion, sired by Hottish and owned by Billy Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metallica Plays LTE $19,442, shown by Trey Wilson, scored 222 points, to rank second in the Classic go-round. The 5-year-old Metallic Cat son, a half-brother to Copaspepto LTE $417,440 and Stylish Martini LTE $361,920, is owned by Melissa Spinella, McDonough, Ga. Wilson also scored 217 points riding 6-year-old Whisskers LTE $25,393, by Dual Rey, for Brittany Overstreet, and 215.5 points with 6-year-old Springtime Catt LTE $53,473, sired by Sophisticated Catt and owned by Ashlyn Miller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phil Rapp, cutting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s #2 all-time leading money earner with over $9.2 million, second only to Austin Shepard with four Augusta Futurity Open wins, scored 221 points in Monday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go-round on both Dontt Happen Twice and Driven Miss Sallie. Six-year-old Dontt Happen Twice LTE $67,896, by Woody Be Tuff, was an Augusta Futurity 5\/6 Classic Non-Pro finalist last year with Ray Baldwin. Five-year-old Driven Miss Sallie LTE $52,536, by Hydrive Cat, was bred by Ray Baldwin and is owned by Lori Gale, Conway, S.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augustafuturity.com\/scores-and-draws-2020\/\">2020 Augusta Futurity<\/a> continues through Saturday, January 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Shepard, the NCHA Hall of Fame earner of over $8.1 million, holds the record&#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-17292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292","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=17292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17301,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292\/revisions\/17301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}