{"id":1471,"date":"2006-01-17T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1471"},"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=1471","title":{"rendered":"Nob Hill convincing at Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><STRONG>Massachusetts<\/STRONG>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Novanora&#8217;s <STRONG>Nob Hill<\/STRONG> did everything asked of her picture-perfect.\u00a0 The sophomore daughter of Miesque&#8217;s Son went off as the solid 8\/5 favorite in the\u00a0<EM>$80,000 Jess Shark Special<\/EM> and did not disappoint her backers.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Top Massachusetts jock Silvio Blade hustled the starlet early out of the gate in the grassy 8 furlong\u00a0contest for three year old fillies.\u00a0 Through the opening half-mile, Nob Hill got into a\u00a0tempting speed duel with plunk&#8217;s Fusaichi Pegasus filly <STRONG>Fusaitariat <\/STRONG>(2\/1 in her\u00a0turf debut).\u00a0 However the latter folded by the three-quarter marker, freeing up Nob Hill&#8217;s solo run to the wire.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Nob\u00a0Hill was never threatened afterwards, chased home by epcotlen&#8217;s late closer\u00a0<STRONG>Theatrical Fog(IRE)<\/STRONG>.\u00a0<STRONG>\u00a0 <\/STRONG>Theatrical Fog(IRE) continues to impress in short routes &#8212; her stamina-laden Theatrical(IRE) pedigree stamps her as one to watch for the <EM>Derby de Oaks(G1)<\/EM> in June.\u00a0<\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT><\/STRONG>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Nob Hill crossed the wire 2 1\/2 lengths much the best.\u00a0 Final time for the flat mile was a slow but honest 1:36 3\/5, an <STRONG>89 SP#<\/STRONG> for the winner.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Highc&#8217;s <STRONG>Sudden Winner T<\/STRONG> nosed out pacesetter Fusaitariat for the show spot, some 10 1\/2 lengths behind Nob Hill in the field of six sophomore fillies.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2>The win pushes Nob Hill&#8217;s record to 5 victories from 9 outings with over $490,000 in earnings.\u00a0 She won the <EM>Grade 1 G.S.R. Diamond Stakes<\/EM> for\u00a0turf freshmen fillies last year, but\u00a0was\u00a0unplaced on\u00a0Breeders Bowl and DelPenn Championship days.\u00a0\u00a0She continues on the <EM>1,000 Guineas<\/EM> (May, Newmarket)\u00a0trail and it would be interesting to see her try a turf sprint again (2 for 2 over grass one-turn so far).<\/FONT><\/FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>\u00a0<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G1-winning sophomore filly easily snares &#8217;05 debut<\/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-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","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=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}