{"id":1249,"date":"2005-11-29T03:50:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T03:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Stormshaft captures thriller Jump Town(G2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><STRONG>Kentucky<\/STRONG>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tripcrown9&#8217;s <STRONG>Stormshaft <\/STRONG>sure took her heartbreaking second place finish in this year&#8217;s Breeders Bowl Distaff in stride.\u00a0 <\/FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>The 3YO daughter of Mineshaft bounced back professionally as the racetime favorite in the <EM>Grade 2 $250,000 Jump Town Handicap<\/EM>.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Stormshaft pushed all the right buttons &#8212; the filly sat chilly midpack in the nine furlong main track contest for distaffers.\u00a0 Jockey P. Cadigan gracefully guided the starlet up to contention at the top of the stretch.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>All that sat between Stormshaft and the finish line was tnilsson&#8217;s popular racemare, <STRONG>Estrogen<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 The 4YO daughter of Sadler&#8217;s Wells was unplaced in the Breeders Bowl Mile and definitely felt frisky with the return to the sand.\u00a0 Estrogen led\u00a0straight out of the gate and the pacesetter seemed to have her 12th career victory well in hand.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>But Stormshaft had other thoughts.\u00a0 The filly gobbled up ground and matched strides with the elder filly in the final hundred yards.\u00a0 The pair crossed the wire in <STRONG>1:48 1\/5<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Immediately, Bluegrass\u00a0Racetrack officials posted the photo sign and it took several minutes before the payoffs went up.\u00a0 Stormshaft prevailed by a head over her elder rival.\u00a0\u00a0 Top distaffers <STRONG>Squall Is A Storm<\/STRONG> and <STRONG>Dangerous Reward<\/STRONG> were never in the hunt, finishing 6th and 10th respectively.<\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Stormshaft notched her 7th\u00a0lifetime score from just 17 starts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>It was her 3rd\u00a0graded stakes win of the season.\u00a0 Besides the Breeders Bowl, Stormshaft&#8217;s\u00a0other notable accomplishment this year was a tough runner-up effort\u00a0again to\u00a0superfilly <STRONG>Swift Kick<\/STRONG> in the <EM>Bluegrass Oaks(G1)<\/EM>. <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Stormshaft has now earned $1.3 million and ranks 3rd in the\u00a03YO Filly Classic Dirt Division.\u00a0 <\/FONT>\u00a0\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore filly notches 3rd graded win;  Estrogen runner-up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}