{"id":738,"date":"2008-09-17T20:15:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T01:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2008-09-17T21:44:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T02:44:15","slug":"im-countin-checks-cashes-in-at-music-city-futurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Im Countin Checks cashes in at Music City Futurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2008\/Gaines%20Matt%20040303.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" \/>Im Countin Checks, ridden by Matt Gaines for Kyle Manion, claimed his fifth major championship on Tuesday in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=739\" title=\"2008 Music City 5\/6-year-old Open\">Music City Futurity 5\/6 Open<\/a>. The 224-point win, worth $16,069, boosted the 6-year-old stallion&#8217;s career earnings to $444,161.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s real strong and has a ton of athletic ability,&#8221; said Gaines, who has ridden the 6-year-old son of Smart Lil Ricochet, out of Autumn Boon, as a finalist in 22 limited age events, including six this year. Manion, showing Im Countin Checks for the first time this year, won the West Texas Non-Pro Classic on him and claimed reserve in the NCHA Super Stakes Classic Non-Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Faith In My Cat, with Clint Allen for Wrigley Ranches, placed second in the 5\/6 Open; Sister CD, in a tight race with world champion Dual Rey Me for leading NCHA active money earner, finished third under owner Skip Queen to increase his record to $651,459. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=739\">Click here <\/a>for results and pedigrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Im Countin Checks, ridden by Matt Gaines for Kyle Manion, claimed his fifth major championship&#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-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}