{"id":8883,"date":"2012-04-12T06:43:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T11:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2012-04-12T06:53:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T11:53:31","slug":"blanton-leads-non-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"Blanton leads Non-Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8884\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120412.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8884 \" title=\"Darren Blanton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120412.jpg\" alt=\"Darren Blanton\" width=\"165\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darren Blanton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Darren Blanton of Dallas, Texas, leads the Non-Pro division of the XTO Energy NCHA Super Stakes after Wednesday&#8217;s second round. Blanton&#8217;s 217 on Short N Smooth, along with his first-round score of 218, gave him a 435 cumulative score. In all, 57 riders marked 425.5 or better to qualify for Thursday&#8217;s Non-Pro semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Bred by Ronald Edward Shelton, Short N Smooth is a gelding by Smooth As A Cat out of Southern Futurity champion Playin Shorty, by Playin Stylish. He had earned $31,000 on his way to the Super Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Paul Hansma had the second high score of 439 on Short N Smooth in the Open division, behind Boyd Rice&#8217;s 443 on CR Sun Reys, by Dual Rey. Short N Smooth was scratched from Tuesday&#8217;s Gelding Stakes finals, but is also qualified for Thursday&#8217;s Non-Pro Gelding finals with Blanton.<\/p>\n<p>Five contestants tied with 434 for the second high score of the Non-Pro qualifying rounds. They were<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chad Bushaw on\u00c2\u00a0 Johnny Test, by One Time Pepto<\/li>\n<li>Christina Cox on SDP Twist Of Sue, by Meradas Blue Sue<\/li>\n<li>Gail Hooper on Spots On My Tummy, by Spots Hot<\/li>\n<li>Mary Ann Rapp on Katarack, by High Brow Cat<\/li>\n<li>Mary Ann Rapp on Pitch Till You Win, by Autumn Acre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Blanton of Dallas, Texas, leads the Non-Pro division of the XTO Energy NCHA Super&#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-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8886,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}