{"id":1343,"date":"2008-02-01T04:52:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T21:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2008-02-01T04:52:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T21:52:27","slug":"john-deere-named-sponsor-of-racing-challenge-champion-owner-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/john-deere-named-sponsor-of-racing-challenge-champion-owner-award\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN DEERE NAMED SPONSOR OF RACING CHALLENGE CHAMPION OWNER AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal, January 31, 2008 \u2013 John Deere is the new sponsor of the Bank of America\u00ae Racing Challenge Champion Owner award, presented each year to the owner who accrues the most points in Racing Challenge competition.<br \/>\nJohn Deere will award a new GatorTM\u00a0 utility vehicle (an approximate value of $10,000) to the 2008 John Deere Champion Owner.\u00a0 Owner points are accumulated by running horses in Bank of America Racing Challenge regional finals or John Deere Bonus Challenge races.\u00a0 Points are awarded on a sliding scale, based on order of finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Bank of America Racing Challenge is a diversified series of qualifying races held in 11 regions across the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America.\u00a0 The regional winners will compete for more than $1 million in purses at the Challenge Championships on November 8, 2008, at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, Louisiana.\u00a0 The Racing Challenge distributes more than $5 million in purses and performance awards throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>John Deere Bonus Challenge races are designed to offer Challenge-enrolled horses more racing opportunities at racetracks that don\u2019t host regional Challenge Championship qualifying races.\u00a0 AQHA has scheduled 25 such races so far in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Bank of America Racing Challenge, the John Deere Bonus Challenge or the Champion Owner, Trainer, Breeder and Jockey awards, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/aqharacing.com\">aqharacing.com<\/a> or call the Racing Challenge hotline at (877) 222-7223.<br \/>\nAQHA news and information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information on The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal or America\u2019s Horse, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqha.com\/magazines\">www.aqha.com\/magazines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal, January 31, 2008 \u2013 John Deere is the new sponsor of the Bank of America\u00ae Racing Challenge Champion Owner award, presented each year to the owner who accrues the most points in Racing Challenge competition. John Deere will award a new GatorTM\u00a0 utility vehicle (an approximate value of $10,000) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqha","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}