{"id":6664,"date":"2011-02-01T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2011-02-01T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:41:50","slug":"boyd-rice-wins-another-top-nrcha-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"Boyd Rice wins another top NRCHA event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rice-boyd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6665\" title=\"rice boyd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/rice-boyd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a>Boyd Rice, a top cutting horse trainer with over $3 million in NCHA earnings, won the 2011 National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) Circle Y Ranch Derby on January 31 aboard Boonie Toons, owned by Danny Poole, Texline, TX.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was the best he&#8217;s ever been in the rein work,&#8221; said Rice, whose 441-point win earned $9,212. &#8220;The cow didn&#8217;t run as hard as he could, but my horse was just perfect and gave it everything he could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boonie Toons, by Peptoboonsmal out of Shiney Tari, began his career as a cutting horse. He was a semi-finalist with Rice in the NCHA Futurity and a finalist in the NCHA Super Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started to have some trouble with him (in cutting) and decided to show him in the cow horse,&#8221; said Rice. &#8220;He was pretty natural at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Five-year-old Boonie Toons won his first cow horse event, the Faith Performance Horse Derby, and was a finalist in the open hackamore at the 2010 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity. The circle Y Ranch Derby is his third cow horse event.<\/p>\n<p>Rice won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=307\">2007 NRCHA Futurity<\/a> on Oh Cay N Short, and was reserve champion of the 2009 and 2005 NRCHA Futurities on Picka Patcha Pepto (also by Peptoboonsmal) and Playin Attraction, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boyd Rice, a top cutting horse trainer with over $3 million in NCHA earnings, won&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting","category-reined-cowhorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","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=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}