{"id":5860,"date":"2010-10-08T19:56:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T00:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=5860"},"modified":"2010-10-08T19:58:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T00:58:44","slug":"gaines-middleton-take-world-series-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=5860","title":{"rendered":"Gaines, Middleton take World Series closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5861\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gaines_matt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5861\" title=\"Matt Gaines\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gaines_matt.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Gaines\" width=\"143\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Gaines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matt Gaines, catch riding for Jeremy Barwick, marked 231 on CD April Fool to win the Mercuria Energy <a title=\"Congress World Series Open\" href=\"?p=5858\">NCHA World Series Open<\/a> finals at the All American Quarter Horse Congress this evening. A packed house of more than 3,500 cutting fans watched the performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CD April Fool went over the $100,000 mark with the win. The 10-year-old CD Olena gelding is owned by Andy and Doogie Wilson of Las Vegas, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting 11th in the NCHA World Standings before the show, CD April Fool&#8217;s $9,023 payday will take him will move him up to fourth place in the 2010 rankings. The top five horses in the standings are now World Series veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines is no stranger to big scores: he also marked 231 back in 2001, winning the NCHA Super Stakes on Sunettes Dually, a long-time record in Will Rogers Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines wife, Tara, placed third in the Non-Pro finals of the World Series, riding Patrick La Dual.<\/p>\n<p>As the last rider in the Open, Austin Shepard lost a cow on MH San Tules Dually, so he slipped the mare&#8217;s bridle off and completed his run to the cheers of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"?p=5856\">Non-Pro finals<\/a>, Lauren Middleton of Flora, Mississippi and Cees Little Poo marked 227 for a six-point win over Ken Sitton on RCC Skeet N Scooter. It was her third major win of the year on the SR Instant Choice gelding, following Non-Pro and Novice Non-Pro victories at the NCHA Eastern National Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Buster Quirk and Playin At The Mall won the 4-Star Trailer Shoot-Out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Matt Gaines, catch riding for Jeremy Barwick, marked 231 on CD April Fool to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5863,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}