{"id":8953,"date":"2012-04-30T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T21:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2012-05-01T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:24:14","slug":"peptos-opus-cat-leads-first-round-of-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=8953","title":{"rendered":"Peptos Opus Cat leads first round of Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8954\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/westfall-russ-20111127c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8954  \" title=\"Russ Westfall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/westfall-russ-20111127c.jpg\" alt=\"Russ Westfall\" width=\"154\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/westfall-russ-20111127c.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/westfall-russ-20111127c-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russ Westfall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hall of Fame rider Russ Westfall and Peptos Opus Cat marked 223 Monday to lead the Open go-round at the 6666 Ranch NCHA Western National Championships in Reno, Nevada. They set the bar competing last in the day&#8217;s second set of cattle.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen horses marked 214.5 or better to advance to Tuesday&#8217;s $20,000-added finals.<\/p>\n<p>Bred by Wagonhound Land &amp; Livestcok, Peptos Opus Cat is a 6-year-old mare by Peptoboonsmal out of NCHA Futurity finalist Opus Cat, by High Brow Cat.<\/p>\n<p>Peptos Opus Cat is owned by David and Lisa Anderson of Calgary. She won the 5\/6-year-old finals at the Pacific Coast Derby this spring, and has earned more than $54,000.<\/p>\n<p>Don Pooley posted the second highest score in the go-round with a 221 on Marcy Blanchard&#8217;s Hickorys Indian Macy, by Hickorys Indian Pep. Blanchard won the Non-Pro title at last year&#8217;s Eastern National Championships on the mare.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8959\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RussWestfall-WN11-2141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8959 \" title=\"Peptos Opus Cat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RussWestfall-WN11-2141.jpg\" alt=\"Peptos Opus Cat\" width=\"282\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RussWestfall-WN11-2141.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/RussWestfall-WN11-2141-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peptos Opus Cat. Forrest Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Fame rider Russ Westfall and Peptos Opus Cat marked 223 Monday to lead&#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-8953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","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=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8996,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}