{"id":1268,"date":"2005-12-02T04:17:58","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T04:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"‘Ice Cream’ In December? Only In Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brown Boomer was a tricky devil.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Turf wins were his stock in trade; although he was never a great stakes horse (off the board in two tries) her was an iron horse in turf sprints, ultimately winning four times in grass dashes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This sturdy competitor has been given the pleasure of having one of the final juvenile turf sprint stakes of 2005 named after him.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>And this weekend marks the inaugural running of the Brown Boomer Special, a $95,000 stakes race over six furlongs on <\/SPAN>Kentucky<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State>\u2019s turf course for two-year-olds.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>And on a card in which talented three-year-old <\/SPAN>Anticosti<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> makes his belated grass debut in an allowance race, this compact quartet of juvenile colts could angle for a similar high-class future down the line.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Barb\u2019s Ice Cream(<\/SPAN><\/B>IRE<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:stockticker>)<\/SPAN><\/B> [Manndar(<\/SPAN>IRE<\/SPAN><\/st1:stockticker>)-Barb\u2019s Seeking, by Seeking The Gold] is favored here, and this colt appears at first blush to tower over the field, with the highest ranking in turf sprints in the field, at #24.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trained by wolverine<\/I><\/B>, he\u2019s earned a pair of stakes wins, including the Furious R. last out in <\/SPAN>Ohio<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, and should be pretty close to what figures to be a mild pace for a stakes sprint.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His numbers are good, if maybe a touch modest, and he gets a top jock on board for this, and his half-sister (now retired) was stakes-placed.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He\u2019s yet to try a dirt race for a start, which is a future option worth pursuing, but as long as he\u2019s performing well on grass at present, there doesn\u2019t seem a reason to tinker with success; favored for a reason.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Java Smoke<\/SPAN><\/B> [Smoke Glacken-Jupiter Arc, by Gone West] is next, and he\u2019s untested at a higher level for trainer hotwalker<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Having hit the board five of six starts, he tries the grass for the first time here, and should be a main speed among these.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His dirt ability hasn\u2019t left them scared or stymied, with a career-best fig of 82 coming in the slop in a NW2L.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With two of his three victories coming on off-tracks, he\u2019d move up considerably, but appears to be up against it for a turf debut in this spot.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Ripple Arsenic(<\/SPAN><\/B>IRE<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:stockticker>)<\/SPAN><\/B> [Best Of The Bests(<\/SPAN>IRE<\/SPAN><\/st1:stockticker>)-Dracula Two, by Storm Cat] is a filly trying out colts for the first time, as trained by kdiv<\/I><\/B>, and she\u2019s the only other stakes winner among the four, with a win in Maryland\u2019s First Bicuspid last out.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her fig there of 84 matches Barb\u2019s Ice Cream(<\/B><\/SPAN>IRE<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:stockticker>) <\/SPAN><\/B>with the best-last-out fig, and she\u2019ll likely concede some kind of early pace to the others as she did in that effort.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It\u2019s a small enough field that she doesn\u2019t need to run a hole in the wind to do awesome, and her stakes experience puts her in good company with the favorite.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She might prefer a bit of give in her grass, but is still plenty able on this firm course for a solid run.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Waki Waki(NZ)<\/SPAN><\/B> [Zabeel(NZ)-Flamboyant, by Miswaki] is the sole runner of these to opt to leave the driving to others, and as trained by victorious<\/STRONG><\/EM>, he\u2019s done his best running from off the pace.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He\u2019s another without a run on the dirt, which might eventually benefit him in competition: his current form puts him a notch or two behind some of these at their best, with a best career fig of 79 in his debut as a high-water mark.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>On current form, running back to that number seems a touch lofty, although his running style does work well among these, and the turn-back in distance to his preferred length should aid him.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He was up the course in the Burn 2 Shine last out, and needs to pull a reversal for a solid opportunity here.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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My selections:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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  1. Barb\u2019s Ice Cream<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/LI>
  2. Ripple Arsenic(<\/SPAN><\/B>IRE<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:stockticker>)<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/LI>
  3. Waki Waki(NZ)<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/LI>
  4. Java Smoke<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/LI><\/OL>

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    Good luck, and happy racing.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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    Quartet Of Juveniles Looking For Leg Up In ‘Boomer’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}