{"id":64,"date":"2006-09-26T22:53:57","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T02:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-09-26T23:00:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T03:00:56","slug":"rice-covers-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Rice covers the field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/rice_boyd.jpg\" \/>Boyd Rice, 2005 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) world champion on Bobs Hickory Rio, leads the $1.1 million National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) Snaffle Bit Futurity open preliminaries, after the first two rounds of competition, in Reno, NV.<\/p>\n<p>Rice is riding Playgun Sun Dual, a gray stallion by Playgun out of Dually Sunette, owned by Billy and Joan Brown, Spearman, TX. Last year, the 41-year-old trainer, also from Spearman, was the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open reserve champion aboard Playin Attraction, by Playin Stylish, owned by Burnett Ranches, Guthrie, TX.<\/p>\n<p>With $103,722 earned under Rice, Playin Attraction was the leading money earner among NRCHA competitors in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked third among NCHA&#8217;s top open riders in 2005, with earnings of $529,205, Rice has the pedigree of a champion. His father, Sonny Rice, won the 1986 NCHA Open World championship on Jazzote, owned by George Glover; his uncle, Ronnie Rice, is an all-time leading NCHA money earner and a two-time NCHA Open Futurity champion; and his cousin, Tag Rice, claimed the NCHA Triple Crown on Chiquita Pistol in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boyd Rice, 2005 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) world champion on Bobs Hickory Rio, leads&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}