{"id":6379,"date":"2010-12-07T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2010-12-08T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T16:10:26","slug":"ken-platt-and-downtown-smarts-go-uptown-with-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=6379","title":{"rendered":"Ken Platt and Downtown Smarts go uptown with 221"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6380\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/platt-kenneth-20101206a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6380 \" title=\"Kenneth Platt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/platt-kenneth-20101206a.jpg\" alt=\"Kenneth Platt\" width=\"240\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenneth Platt and Downtown Smarts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First call in Monday&#8217;s John Deere Open Division Finals didn&#8217;t rattle Ken Platt, even though this is his first time to show in the NCHA Futurity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough spot, but this is a great horse and that&#8217;s what makes the difference,&#8221; said 22-year-old Platt, referring to Downtown Smarts, who marked 221 points to win the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Wray on Quejana Reeves, by Quejanaisalena, owned and bred by Bill and Anne Riddle, was reserve with 217 points.<\/p>\n<p>Dwight and Kathi Fisher, Denver, CO, purchased Downtown Smarts for $17,500 during last year&#8217;s NCHA Futurity Sales, at the urging of Platt, who had viewed the colt&#8217;s video performance on the internet. The Downtown Cat-sired colt, was started by Jesse Pritchard and consigned by his breeder, Painted Springs Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Platt, who lives in Fort Lupton, CO, started showing cutting horses when he was eight. He credits his neighbor, leading rider Lloyd Cox, as well as Matt Rava, for teaching him &#8220;the majority&#8221; of what he knows about showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First call in Monday&#8217;s John Deere Open Division Finals didn&#8217;t rattle Ken Platt, even though&#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-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","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=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}