{"id":8219,"date":"2011-10-14T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2011-10-14T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:43:08","slug":"royal-blue-boon-1980-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8219","title":{"rendered":"Royal Blue Boon, 1980-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8220\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Royal-and-Elaine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8220\" title=\"Royal and Elaine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Royal-and-Elaine-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Royal-and-Elaine-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Royal-and-Elaine.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Royal Blue Boon and Elaine Hall. Photo by Sally Harrison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Royal Blue Boon, cutting&#8217;s all-time leading dam of the earners of $2.6 million, was laid to rest Thursday, October 13, at Hall Cutting Horses, Weatherford, Texas, her home for all but the first of her 31 years.<\/p>\n<p>Before she gained fame as a broodmare, Royal Blue Boon was a top performer under trainer Larry Reeder and the late Larry Hall. The Boon Bar daughter, bred by Curt Donley and foaled in 1980, earned an NCHA career total of $224,685.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Blue Boon&#8217;s richest legacy, however, was through her sons and daughters, who in turn became leading producers &#8211; Peptoboonsmal, Autumn Boon, Mecom Blue, Duals Blue Boon, and Bet Yer Blue Boons, who top the list. In addition, her gelded son, Red White And Boon, is one of cutting&#8217;s all-time leading money earners with official NCHA earnings of $882,498.<\/p>\n<p>In the early days of embryo transfer, foals like Royal Blue Boon&#8217;s champion daughter Peppys From Heaven helped pave the way for other ET performers, and dispelled doubts about foals produced in a lab and raised by surrogate mothers.<\/p>\n<p>At 26, with her reproductive days behind her (her last foal was produced via embryo transfer in 1996), Royal Blue Boon made media headlines, when Royal Blue Boon Too became the world&#8217;s first commercially cloned filly, on February 19, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Blue Boon, cutting&#8217;s all-time leading dam of the earners of $2.6 million, was laid&#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-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","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=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}