{"id":304,"date":"2007-10-06T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-10-06T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T23:34:20","slug":"working-girls-from-the-s-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Working girls from the S Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual American Quarter Horse Association Best Remuda Award is presented in recognition of ranches that breed horses specifically for ranch work. Show and performance records are not a factor.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=295\" title=\"Best Remuda Award\">Best Remuda winner<\/a>, the 227,000-acre S Ranch, headquartered in Billings, MT and owned and operated by John Scott Jr. and his family, has 58 mares, three stallions and a remuda of 78 geldings to handle their cattle operation.<\/p>\n<p>While S branded horses are working class citizens, they have also proven to be stars in performance arenas. In August of 2000, John Scott held a Quarter Horse sale on the ranch in Billings and I photographed a group of five red roan daughters of Peptoboonsmal that were to be offered &#8211; four 2-year-olds and one 3-year-old. The mares went on to earn more than $618,673 in major cutting events. Pictured from left to right are: Meradas Boonsmal, $92,323; Boons Freckle Lena, $31,526; Freckles Lena Boon, $235,994; Boonsmal Olena, $47,823; and Boonsmal Doctress, $211,007.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/features\/pix\/s_ranch_mares.jpg\" title=\"S Ranch Mares\" alt=\"S Ranch Mares\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual American Quarter Horse Association Best Remuda Award is presented in recognition of ranches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting","category-horse-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}