{"id":2227,"date":"2009-10-03T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2009-10-03T17:45:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T22:45:32","slug":"quarter-race-champion-ocean-runaway-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"Quarter race champion Ocean Runaway found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2009\/oceanrunawy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Seven-year-old syndicated stallion Ocean Runaway, a three-time Quarter racing champion and a leading freshman sire, was found dead in his stall at the Four Sixes Ranch, Guthrie, TX, on Friday morning. The cause of death has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of 17 out of 19 starts, including four G1 stakes, and the earner of $1,642,498, Ocean Runaway was bred by Lucas Racing, Inc. and campaigned by Gary and Cindy Muller of Muller Racing, Inc. He was the leading money-earner sired by all-time leader First Down Dash, and from his first crop of 71 performers has sired six stakes horses, including Runaway Thyme, runner-up in the G1 Kindergarten Futurity.<\/p>\n<p>Half Pipe, a full brother to Ocean Runaway, was the high seller, for $325,000, at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=2105\">2009 Heritage Place Yearling Sale <\/a>in Oklahoma City. Oceans Apart, another full brother, was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=1939\">2009 Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale <\/a>high seller at $300,000. Their dam, broodmare of the year Runaway Wave, by Runaway Winner, has also produced full siblings Wave Carver, a world champion and earner of $1,005,946); G1 winner Trisk with $200,864; and G1 stakes-placed Sir Runaway Dash with $117,961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-year-old syndicated stallion Ocean Runaway, a three-time Quarter racing champion and a leading freshman sire,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}