{"id":351,"date":"2007-12-02T08:27:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T13:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2007-12-03T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T13:35:59","slug":"arcese-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Arcese, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/flarida_shawn_20071201.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>When Shawn Flarida (pictured) rode Wimpys Little Chic to a 231.5-point score as the final contestant in the National Reining Horse Association Futurity on December 1, Arcese Quarter Horses USA claimed their second major title in a month. Interestingly, the big wins came in two different disciplines. Four weeks earlier, Phil Rapp had ridden Arcese&#8217;s Arc Catty Dual to win the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=333\" title=\"PCCHA Futurity\">Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association Futurity<\/a>. Owner Eleuterio Arcese, of Verona, Italy is the only European inductee to the NRHA Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Wimpys Little Chic is from the first crop of 2002 NRHA Futurity champion Wimpys Little Step, another Flarida pupil, who set an NRHA earnings record for 3-year-olds of $185,000.  He was only the second horse to win both the All American Quarter Horse Congress and NRHRA Futurity titles. Wimpys Little Chic&#8217;s dam is Collena Chic Olena, by Smart Chic Olena.<\/p>\n<p>The mare went through the NRHA go-rounds with scores of 227.5 and 226.5 for a composite of 454. In the finals, she knocked out Gunners Special Nite, ridden by Marcy Van Meer, who had set the bar at 230.<\/p>\n<p>Flarida said he saw Wimpys Little Chic&#8217;s talent early in her training regimen. &#8220;This is the very first horse I&#8217;ve ever given four weeks off in the middle of  the summer,&#8221; he said.<span>  <\/span>&#8220;My help thought I might be losing it! <span class=\"710060018-02122007\">My assistant trainer,  Robin,<\/span> asked me a couple of times, &#8216;Are you going to ride her this  week?'&#8221;<span>   <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Shawn Flarida (pictured) rode Wimpys Little Chic to a 231.5-point score as the final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-world","category-reining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}