{"id":4244,"date":"2010-05-12T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2010-05-12T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T23:01:24","slug":"glade-knight-hospitality-and-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Glade Knight: Hospitality and horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4247\" title=\"KnightGlade_051310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/KnightGlade_0513101.jpg\" alt=\"KnightGlade_051310\" width=\"181\" height=\"252\" \/>Glade Knight founded nine public companies that have made $5 billion. He also owns Slate River Ranch, a leading cutting horse breeding farm in Weatherford, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Richmond-Times Dispatch<\/em> of Richmond, Virginia, home of Knight&#8217;s Apple REIT Companies that own 200 high-end hotels in 31 states, featured an excellent article about Knight, his businesses, and his horses in the Monday, May 10 edition. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/rtd\/business\/real_estate\/article\/COVR10_20100509-170006\/343290\/\">here <\/a>to link.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if there is anything more exciting than to be able to show your mares&#8217; babies like that,&#8221; Knight told me after a galvanizing ride on Playin N Fancy Smart, who he showed as non-pro reserve champion of the 2010 Augusta Futurity Classic Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Playin N Fancy Smart, earner of nearly $300,000, is just one of eight $100,000-plus lifetime money earners owned by Slate River Ranch and\u00a0being ridden this year by Knight, Slate River Ranch manager and trainer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=3131\"> John Mitchell<\/a>, and outside trainers Kory Pounds and Sean Flynn. Of the eight, six are mares, including two half-siblings to Playin N Fancy Smart, by Slate River Ranch&#8217;s top sire, That Sly Cat, also sire of Slate River&#8217;s Catmas with $123,000.\u00a0Another Slate River-owned 2010 competitor by That Sly Cat, 4-year-old Candy Cat, is the earner of more than $50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glade Knight founded nine public companies that have made $5 billion. He also owns Slate&#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-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","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=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}