{"id":8158,"date":"2011-09-17T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2011-09-17T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T22:24:22","slug":"hats-off-to-the-first-red-raider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8158","title":{"rendered":"Hats off to the first Red Raider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8159\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/JoeKirkFultonMaskedRider2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/JoeKirkFultonMaskedRider2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"JoeKirkFultonMaskedRider2\" width=\"252\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8159\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Kirk Fulton from Texas Tech Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=7\">Joe Kirk Fulton<\/a> blazed the trail in 1954, as the first mounted football mascot &#8211; Texas Tech University&#8217;s famous <a href=\"http:\/\/\">Red Raider<\/a>. Fulton&#8217;s contribution to the Quarter Horse world, however, reaches well beyond his native Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Peppy San Badger, a foundation sire of the modern cutting horse, was bred by Fulton, as were the earners of more than $16 million on the racetrack, including world champions Dashs Dream and Special Leader, and 72 other stakes winners.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton, who has been raising Quarter Horses for 50 years and was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame this year, has bred and\/or owned stallions that have sired the earners of more than $60 million. <\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=4_PIpQrFcRI\">here <\/a>for a video interview of Fulton and film clips of him as the Red Raider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kirk Fulton blazed the trail in 1954, as the first mounted football mascot &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","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=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}