{"id":345,"date":"2008-12-06T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/06\/an-adirondack-athlete-four-legged-that-is-competes-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T20:15:00","slug":"an-adirondack-athlete-four-legged-that-is-competes-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/06\/an-adirondack-athlete-four-legged-that-is-competes-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"An Adirondack athlete (four-legged, that is) competes in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently profiled a Ray Brook couple (check out our story, with pics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/archive.php?id=12049\">here<\/a>) who raise thoroughbred horses in the Adirondack.<\/p>\n<p>One of their ponies &#8212; Tin Cup Chalice &#8212; has been competing with some of the best race-horses in the U.S., winning huge purses.<\/p>\n<p>Now Chalice is racing in a major Japanese match-up on Sunday.  The Adirondack Daily Enterprise had a great write-up of the story this week, which you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/503839.html?nav=5008\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The money quote (sorry, bad pun) comes from Chalice co-owner Scott Van Laer &#8212; who, in addition to raising race horses is a NY state Forest Ranger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we come in the top five, I&#8217;ll be ecstatic,&#8221; Vanlaer said with a laugh. &#8220;If we win, I&#8217;ll retire.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently profiled a Ray Brook couple (check out our story, with pics, here) who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}