{"id":18191,"date":"2020-10-22T21:12:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T02:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18191"},"modified":"2020-10-22T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T02:12:32","slug":"smart-mate-1990-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18191","title":{"rendered":"Smart Mate 1990 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smart-mate.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smart-mate.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smart-mate-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Smart Mate, ridden by Pat Fitzgerald. Teresa Jett photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart Mate, the 1990 Smart Little Lena stallion owned by Pat Fitzgerald, Paoli, Okla., was euthanized on October 14, 2020, due to infirmities of old age. Through September 2020, Smart Mate had sired 396 NCHA money earners of $8,027,441.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bred by Sandra Sims, Fullerton, Calif., and owned as a colt by Grant Finley, Theodosia, Mo., Smart Mate, was out of the Freckles Playboy daughter Freckles Playmate. Fitzgerald acquired Smart Mate in September 1996, won the Southern Futurity 5\/6 Open Classic with him that year, and placed as an Open finalist in the Abilene Western and El Cid Futurity, as well. Shown at five by Dean Smith and also at six by Kobie Wood, Smart Mate was retired with NCHA lifetime earnings of $47,265.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fitzgerald had also stood Doc Quixote and Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hickory, two of that era\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading sires, and it was foals out of daughters of those two stallions who would produce many of Smart Mate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading money earners. Nutn Buta Houndog, from Smart Mate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second full crop (1999), and also his top money earner, with $261,583, was out of the Doc Quixote daughter Liza Quixote. From twelve earners of $100,000 or more, four of Smart Mate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading money earners were out of Doc Quixote daughters; three were Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hickory daughters; and one was a Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hickory granddaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart Mate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first NCHA Futurity finalist, Belle Mate, came from his first full crop (foals of 1998), and was out of Santa Belle, by Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hickory. Mates Irish Rose, the earner of $156,124, and a 2000 Smart Mate daughter out of Hickory Badger Ina, by Doc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hickory, became a noted producer of seven NCHA earners of $596,357, including Arosesuchaclatter LTE $323,079. Arosesuchaclatter, in turn, has become one of many outstanding producers who carry on Smart Mate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Mate, the 1990 Smart Little Lena stallion owned by Pat Fitzgerald, Paoli, Okla., was&#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-18191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191","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=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18195,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions\/18195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}