{"id":3111,"date":"2010-01-31T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2010-01-31T14:12:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T19:12:44","slug":"brad-mitchell-takes-1st-and-2nd-in-2010-augusta-futurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Brad Mitchell takes 1st and 2nd in 2010 Augusta Futurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2010\/mitchell brad.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Brad Mitchell claimed the<a href=\"?p=3108\"> Augusta Futurity <\/a>on Saturday with a 223-point win on Cat A Rey and the reserve championship with 222.5 riding Holly Is Smooth. Cat A Rey is owned by Painted Springs Farm, Nashville, TN; Holly Is Smooth belongs to Robert Norton, Columbia, TN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was nerve-wracking,\u201d said Painted Springs Farm owner Barbara Brooks of Cat A Rey&#8217;s run, the first in the second set of cattle.\u201cI don&#8217;t think I breathed during the two-and-a-half minutes.\u201d Brooks won last year&#8217;s non-pro championship on Sass And The City, also conditioned by Mitchell, 39, who is beginning his second decade as resident trainer for Painted Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Cat A Rey, by Dual Rey out of Sheza Smart Cat, was also a finalist (16th) in the NCHA Futurity and has career earnings of $73,225, including $18,748 for his Augusta win.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth As A Cat daughter Holly Is Smooth, who Mitchell showed immediately following Cat A Rey in the second set, had earned just $312 prior to the Augusta Futurity, where she collected $13,509.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Bushaw, Weatherford, TX, won the <a href=\"?p=3103\">Augusta Non-Pro Futurity<\/a> and $14,110 with 219 points aboard Twisting Playdough. Bushaw also rode the Freckles Fancy Twist daughter to place fifth in the Abilene Spectacular earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Callahan, McConnells, SC, was reserve non-pro champion with 216 points on Catman Bingo, by High Brow Cat.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"?s=2010+augusta+futurity%2Bcat%3D15\">here <\/a>for complete Augusta Futurity results with finalist pedigrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Mitchell claimed the Augusta Futurity on Saturday with a 223-point win on Cat A&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","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=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}