{"id":1252,"date":"2005-11-30T05:38:53","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1252"},"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=1252","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Club(G2), K&#8217;s Rumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><STRONG>Nebraska<\/STRONG>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Top Nebraska jockey H Desitter knew he was on the best colt:\u00a0 &#8220;You just can&#8217;t beat &#8216;Rumor&#8217;s pedigree (Sadler&#8217;s Wells x Seattle Slew x Nijinsky II).\u00a0 As soon as I saw him among the entries, I knew he would beat this group with ease.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>And the royal bred is none other than <STRONG>K&#8217;s Rumor Has It<\/STRONG>, a picture perfect golden bay colt who&#8217;s now unbeaten at a mile or more.\u00a0 Kronus&#8217; stable star added serious credentials in his latest outing:\u00a0 an impressive 3 1\/4 length romp in the <EM>Grade 2 $250,000 Club Stakes<\/EM> for two year olds.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>&#8220;The trainer (Kronus) was a bit sore at the bookies when they sent &#8216;Rumor off as the second choice on the morning line,&#8221;\u00a0 Desitter said.\u00a0&#8220;But I wasn&#8217;t worried at all.\u00a0 My colt won handily last out in Grade 2 company at Kentucky.\u00a0\u00a0 Same gameplan this time around too,\u00a0relaxing behind a pedestrian lead, saving some steam for the stretch drive.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>And Desitter&#8217;s plan sure worked like a charm.\u00a0\u00a0 K&#8217;s Rumor Has It sat back from a solo lead set by tonno200&#8217;s longshot <STRONG>Lovely Sheep<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 \u00a0By the three-quarter marker, &#8216;Rumor had pulled within a length of the speedster and it was &#8220;Lookout Charlie!&#8221; from there on out.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>The come-from-behinder <STRONG>Crafty Cyclone<\/STRONG> recovered nicely from his puzzling Breeders Bowl flop, chasing the winner home in second for ydracing.\u00a0 Another closer (slowracers&#8217; <STRONG>Clan Of The Cat<\/STRONG>)\u00a0nosed out Lovely Sheep\u00a0for the show.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Final time for the main track&#8217;s 8.5 furlongs was a pretty darn\u00a0good 1:43 flat.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>K&#8217;s Rumor Has It has now won over $400k\u00a0with 3\u00a0victories from 5 outings.\u00a0<\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal bred freshman remains perfect around two-turns<\/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-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","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=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}