{"id":18467,"date":"2020-12-06T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18467"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:08:00","slug":"its-miller-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=18467","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Miller time!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/METALLIC-SMART-CAT-megan-miller_7048.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/METALLIC-SMART-CAT-megan-miller_7048.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/METALLIC-SMART-CAT-megan-miller_7048-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><figcaption>Megan Miller on Metallic Smart Cat. Seth Petit photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Megan Miller<\/strong> and Metallic Smart Cat claimed a clear victory in the Non-Pro division of the 7 Ranch NCHA World Finals at Fort Worth&#8217;s Watt Arena on Saturday night, December 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She posted the top score in three of the four working arounds, plus the non-working finals to earn $25,950 at the show, leading World Champion Elizabeth Quirk, who earned $14,363 on Reystylin Smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller, of Poolville, Tex., is an NCHA Non-Pro Hall of Fame inductee with career earnings of $1,278,211. She&#8217;s a two-time winner of the NCHA Super Stakes (Itawtathenapuddycat in 2009 and Carolena Reyn in 2018) and the Super Stakes Classic (Travs Scooter in 2009 and Carolena Reyn in 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metallic Smart Cat LTE $235,839 is a 7-year-old gelding bred by Cynthia Villa by Metallic Cat out of Smart Jerri Lee, by Smart Little Jerry. Miller&#8217;s husband, Matt, showed the gelding to Open reserve championships at the NCHA Derby and NCHA Classic Challenge, and won the Pacific Coast Cutting Stakes with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megan Miller and Metallic Smart Cat strung together scores of 228 \/ 229 \/ 221 \/ 229 \/ 907 at the World Finals. That helped her pass third-round winner Mary Jo Milner to take the Reserve World Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Quirk<\/strong> of Denham Springs, Louisiana, earned her second Non-Pro World Championship. The 2003 NCHA Limited Age Rookie of the Year was inducted into the Non-Pro Hall of Fame in 2017, and was World Champion in 2018. She has career earnings of $1,172,313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She earned $68,064 for her 2020 World title, riding to the herd in 54 shows prior to the World Finals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Miller and Metallic Smart Cat claimed a clear victory in the Non-Pro division of the 7 Ranch NCHA World Finals at Fort Worth&#8217;s Watt Arena on Saturday night, December 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467","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=18467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18635,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions\/18635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}