{"id":3018,"date":"2010-01-14T00:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T05:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2010-01-14T00:57:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T05:57:38","slug":"aqha-racing-champions-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=3018","title":{"rendered":"AQHA racing champions announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2010\/Freakys.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.2in;\">Freaky was announced 2009 world racing champion during the American Quarter Horse Association&#8217;s annual racing award ceremony on January 13, in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.2in;\">Owned by Armando Aguirre of Surprise, Arizona, 4-year-old Freaky won six of nine starts and earned $580,860 during his championship season. The TR Dasher son, out of Chickasecret by Raise A Secret, was also voted champion aged horse and champion aged gelding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.2in;\">Freaky began his career under the ownership of his breeder, Ed Allred. Purchased by Aguirre on January 28, 2009, he won the Champion of Champions (G1); the Los Alamitos Invitational Championship (G1); the Vessels Maturity (G1); and the Spencer Childers California Breeders\u2019 Championship (RG1); and also set three Los Alamitos track records. He made his first two starts of the year for trainer Scott Willoughby and the remaining seven for Adan Farias.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.2in;\">Other horses receiving honors included Runnning Brook Gal, champion 2-year-old and champion 2-year-old filly; Tempting Dash, champion 2-year-old colt; First Klas Fred, champion 2-year-old gelding; Inseperable, champion 3-year-old and champion 3-year-old colt; Alice K White, champion 3-year-old filly; Time For A Cigar, champion 3-year-old gelding; First Moonflash, champion aged stallion; Stylish Jess BR, champion aged mare; Gone To The Mountain, champion distance horse; Ze Dancer, Mexican champion; Six Pack Of Corona, Canadian champion; and A Tempting Chick, broodmare of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.2in;\">Paul Jones earned his eighth consecutive award as champion trainer; and Ramon Sanchez earned his second as champion jockey. A&amp;C Racing and Roping was named champion owner; Edward C. Allred was champion breeder;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freaky was announced 2009 world racing champion during the American Quarter Horse Association&#8217;s annual racing&#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-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","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=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}