{"id":1376,"date":"2005-12-30T17:17:56","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T17:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1376"},"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=1376","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Welcoming Six Star Turf Sprinters Including First Time Starter and Improving Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"

VA, Race ID 2720.1710 : The Boundary Smoke Stakes <\/B>Fillies and mares, 2 years old, Seven and half furlongs on the Firm Turf Course, Purse : $55,000<\/P>

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Hollyrood Palace-9\/2- <\/P><\/B>

She took 5 races to break her maiden and that was her only win in 7 starts. Clearly based on that and her slow SP’s shouldn’t be in here. Holly is always far back at the start and I expect the same on Saturday. Natalyaeve is giving this horse a shorter distance which doesn’t look like a smart move either.<\/P>

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Barncat-16\/1- <\/P><\/B>

Four starts with two wins. Her first race should be thrown out because it was a dirt race and she despised the dirt, nor is bred to run on it. Zaza is another of many owners in the race running their horse at a shorter distance. Shorter distance for this one though is probably negative. I would pass on this filly.<\/P>

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It Wing Hi-11\/1- <\/P><\/B>

NEVER RACED BEFORE:::::::::::::::::::::::::<\/P>

The horse is daughter of Scorpion, dam sire is Biscay, and dam dam sire is the British horse Lunchtime. Very good combo if you ask me but no experience and first time racing in a stakes is going to be tough to hurdle over. Possible though, we do not have a clue what this network8 filly is capable of.<\/P>

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Ball Or Strike(IRE)-3\/1-<\/P><\/B>

Certainly a competetor in this extremely good batch of two year old fillies. Coming straight from a third place KY stakes finish. Will be a speed horse and should be within a length of the winner at the end.<\/P>

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Rozmova-2\/1-<\/P><\/B>

One for 10 with $111,000 in earnings, this filly is the most consistent and fast horse in the race, although the raise in class and short distance could hurt her. Other negative factors are that she has never raced on turf before and took a horrific 8 races to break her maiden, and her last two were allowances. Will either kill or get killed here, doesn’t look like much in between for this girl of Phone Trick.<\/P>

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Alma-8\/5-<\/P><\/B>

2 for 4 in very short career, although her two losses were on dirt. She broke her maiden in an amazing closing fashion winning by a head. In allowance race following that improved and came from even more back to win by 1\/4 of a length. Now she is coming into this race, and is only expected to keep improving, my choice to win the race. Great field here and should be exciting, be sure to watch this race on Saturday if you have the time!<\/P><\/I><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alma Going For Three Straight, 11-1 First Timer Could Pull Huge Upset<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"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-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","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\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}