{"id":317,"date":"2007-10-16T20:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T01:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2007-10-16T20:22:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T01:22:15","slug":"quintan-blue-reaches-milestone-approaches-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Quintan Blue hits milestone, eyes another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With her win in the Open Classic at the SouthPoint show in Las Vegas this week, gritty mare Quintan Blue matched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=297\" title=\"Copaspepto wins 4 Open finals\">Copaspepto<\/a> as the only four-time winners of major Open finals in this calendar year. Ridden by Roger Wagner, Quintan Blue has earlier Open wins in 2007 at Abilene, the Breeder&#8217;s Invitational, and the NCHA Classic Challenge. She also won in the Amateur division for owner Jon Winkelried at Memphis and the Breeder&#8217;s Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>That makes 2007 the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=297\" title=\"Two horses won four events\">first year since 2003<\/a> that two horses have each won four major Open finals. In that season, it was Chiquita Pistol and Stylish Play Lena.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, with her projected earnings from the Brazos Bash and SouthPoint, Quintan Blue&#8217;s career total is less than $6,000 shy of the $600,000 mark. That will move her into seventh place in the National Cutting Horse Association&#8217;s all-time standings. And only two mares, Meradas Little Sue and Little Badger Dulce, have topped $600,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her win in the Open Classic at the SouthPoint show in Las Vegas this&#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-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}