{"id":1485,"date":"2006-01-19T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T11:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1485"},"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=1485","title":{"rendered":"Maiden Winner Favorite For Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=center><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 16pt\">Maiden Winner Favorite For Feature<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\">Illinois<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:place><\/st1:State><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"> &#8211; It must be the weather.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Only four fillies were entered in this Saturday&#8217;s $70,000 <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Defer Star Memorial<\/I> and they will all be contesting the mile and a sixteenth distance for the first time.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A heavy rain on Wednesday left the turf course listed in &#8216;good&#8217; condition and showers are predicted the rest of the week so it will probably remain so for Saturday.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Defer Star is an 8 YO mare by Cee&#8217;s Tizzy.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>She won nine races from 33 starts and is the dam of two foals to race &#8211; 1 winner.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\">Breaking from the inside will be <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Mixed Signal<\/B> (2\/1), a 3 YO filly by Sagamix.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is under the capable hands of<B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"> Bar13<\/I><\/B> and has three wins from eight starts including <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">The Project Gambling<\/I> and <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">The Project Bail<\/I>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The elegant dark bay French filly was a closing fourth last time out at a mile so might like the added distance.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\">She has the most experience in the race with three wins from 10 starts and <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Danzig Run<\/B> (7\/2), a lovely roan 3 YO filly by Cherokee Run, will break from post two.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>Trained by<B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"> Irishgal<\/I><\/B>, she is the only top 100 ranked filly of the group and is the winner of The Sky West and The Manni&#8217;s Walther, both under a mile.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She does have some off track ability, finishing third last time out over a &#8216;good&#8217; track after leading to the top of the stretch.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Unfortunately that was at a distance of under a mile so her ability at over a mile might be a question.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\">Ermington Celeb<\/SPAN><\/B><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"> (3\/1) is a dark bay 3 YO filly trimmed in white by Peintre Celebre.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is conditioned by <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Pigeon5<\/I><\/B> and has two wins from five starts.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ambitiously placed, she broke her maiden in <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">The Purple Wing Bonanza<\/B> and followed that up with a stirring victory in the <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Eight Shelley. <\/I><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>She is bred to go a distance and while her recent finishes have only garnered her small checks her speed figures are on the rise.<o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 14pt\">The outside post goes to <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Whistle On By<\/B> (Even) a copper chestnut by Smarty Jones.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trained by <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Be1stfarms,<\/I><\/B> she has been in the money in four of her six starts, however she has only a maiden win.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>What must have given this filly the nod as far as the odds maker was concerned was the fact that last time out she was a fast closing second in <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">The Senorita Elocat<\/I> seems to be improving as she is stretched out.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She also carries the highest speed figure of the field in this race. <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be the weather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}