{"id":3612,"date":"2010-03-15T22:47:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2010-03-27T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T14:38:32","slug":"a-track-runs-thru-it-takes-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=3612","title":{"rendered":"A Track Runs Thru It takes Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catch riding for $10,000 Novice champion Sam Shepard, Brett Davis claimed the Open Eastern Nationals championship Sunday with 222 points aboard A Track Runs Thru It.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3626\" style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3626 \" title=\"davis_brett\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/davis_brett.jpg\" alt=\"Brett Davis\" width=\"115\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brett Davis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s got a big heart. I just stepped on her and showed her,&#8221; said Davis of the DJ Tracker daughter, owned by Terry Pigg, Collinsville, AL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second cow was not as good as we thought he (woukd be) and we had to work the whole pen to hold it. And when I cut my third cow, I had over 30 seconds left. They paid me for degree of difficulty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis has won every division of the Eastern National Finals, including the Open division on Son Of Olena in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Nine-year-old A Track Runs Thru It, by DJ Tracker and trained by Guy Woods, was an Open and $10,000 Amateur Eastern National finalist in 2008 with Shepard and Pigg.<br \/>\nOh Cay Starlight, a 7-year-old son of Grays Starlight, scored 219 points as reserve champion under Eddie Braxton, riding for Susan Dunne, Clinton, NC. Braxton won the $3,000 Novice on Thursday with Mississippi Cat for Vick Etheridge.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Shepard, placed third in the Open on Dees Mr Charles, who he showed earlier in the week to win the $10,000 Novice championship and the $3,000 Novice reserve title for Edley and Sue Hixson.<\/p>\n<h3>$2,000 Limited Rider<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3634\" style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3634  \" title=\"chartier_scott\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/chartier_scott1.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Chartier\" width=\"115\" height=\"176\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Chartier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scott Chartier scored 217.5 points to win the $2,000 Limited Rider championship on Wild Start. Last September marked the first time that the 22-year-old had shown since his days in the Junior Youth division.<\/p>\n<p>Seven-year-old Wild Start, by Hesa Smart Start, is owned by Scott&#8217;s\u00a0 father, Randy Chartier, who placed eighth in yesterday&#8217;s Open finals aboard Nita Playmate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I showed at the Congress (in September) for the first time and I was everywhere and really rough,&#8221; said Scott. &#8220;I was a little nervous today, but I was more excited.&#8221;<br \/>\nRandy Chartier showed Wild Start as reserve champion of the 2008 Eastern Nationals $3,000 Novice.<\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s brother, R.L. Chartier, head trainer for Wrigley Ranches, won the 2008 NCHA Futurity Limited Open on Hay Maker.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Moore, 18, Saint George, SC, earned 216.5 points and the Limited reserve championship on BSR Cat, a 7-year-old son of High Brow Cat, and earner of over $75,000, trained by Matt Gaines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is awesome &#8211; that is the main word,&#8221; said Moore of BSR Cat, owned by her father, George Moore, who showed the horse as a non-pro and amateur finalist in major limited age events.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie showed BSR Cat for the first time at the 2009 NCHA Derby where she placed as a finalist in the Senior Youth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday in the Youth I had an awesome run going and I kicked up more horsepower than I could handle and my foot came out of the stirrup, so I was a little shaky going into today,&#8221; Moore admitted. &#8220;But I was very happy today because I love this horse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch riding for $10,000 Novice champion Sam Shepard, Brett Davis claimed the Open Eastern Nationals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-chatter","tag-eastern-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","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=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}