{"id":7494,"date":"2011-05-05T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2011-05-05T14:31:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T19:31:53","slug":"joel-schulz-tops-15000-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=7494","title":{"rendered":"Joel Schulz tops $15,000 Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7495\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrestphotography.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7495 \" title=\"Joel Schulz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cd_little_dog.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Schulz\" width=\"189\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Schulz on CD Little Dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joel Schulz of Fort Lupton, Colorado marked 220.5 on CD Little Dog to win the <a title=\"2010 NCHA Western Nationals $15,000 Amateur\" href=\"http:\/\/stats.sallyharrison.com\/show_results.php?show=NCHA%20WESTERN%20NATIONALS&amp;age=ALL&amp;class=$15,000%20AMATEUR\">$15,000 Amateur<\/a> finals Wednesday at the NCHA Western National Championships, presented by 6666 Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Schulz came out of the go-round in a four-way tie for the second highest score, with a 215 behind Stephen Harrington&#8217;s 216 on Badger Poo.<\/p>\n<p>He drew fourth in the second bunch of the 27-horse finals for a 4 1\/2-point win over Noel Kleinhaus on Starlights Fancy.<\/p>\n<p>It was Schulz&#8217;s first major event win, although he and CD Little Dog were finalists in four classes &#8211; the $20,000 Non-Pro, $2,000 Rider, $10,000 Amateur and $5,000 Novice Non-Pro &#8211; at last year&#8217;s NCHA Western National Championships. He is also entered in the $50,000 Amateur later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Bred by Mary Garner, CD Little Dog is a 9-year-old gelding by CD Royal out of Xenalena, by Travalena. He&#8217;ll go over the $50,000 mark in lifetime earnings with his Western Nationals paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>Noel Kleinhaus&#8217; reserve champion Starlights Fancy is a 19-year-old Grays Starlight mare that has produced two money earners. The mare carried Raley-Mae Radomske in the 2001 Western National Championships.<\/p>\n<p>See full <a title=\"2010 NCHA Western National Championships\" href=\"?p=7492\">results<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Schulz of Fort Lupton, Colorado marked 220.5 on CD Little Dog to win the&#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":[32],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting","tag-western_2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","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=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7499,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/7499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}