{"id":1619,"date":"2006-02-02T19:09:42","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1619"},"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=1619","title":{"rendered":"A Rub Of Irish Will Be Hard To Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Rub Of Irish Will Be Hard To Beat<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>

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Washington<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> – The Slew Exalting Challenge<\/I> will definitely keep the crowd around as they can probably stay inside and have dinner and drinks while it is being run.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The mile and a half race over the grass is for all horses four and up and will carry a purse of $60,000.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With the wild weather that has been plaguing <\/SPAN>Washington<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> state, the course is expected to be listed as ‘good’ on Saturday. \u00a0<\/SPAN>The race was named in honor of a 9YO horse by Pocket Book, who was stakes placed and earned eight wins from 54 starts.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Not that post positions matter much in a race of this length but on the inside will be Mighty Hawk<\/B> (8\/1), a plain brown 4 YO colt with a lovely way of moving.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is by War Chant and is trained by Lonepine<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is still eligible non three but has a second and two wins from his last three starts.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lightly raced he has never run over nine furlongs and is a total unknown in this race.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Post two will hold the favorite A Rub Of Irish<\/B> (4\/5).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ranked # 10 in the long turf division he has nine wins from 26 starts and is a recent winner of the Grade II Dawn to Dusk<\/I> (12 furlongs) and the More From Project<\/I> (2 miles).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has also finished second in the Grade II Longchamp <\/I><\/SPAN>Marathon<\/SPAN><\/I><\/st1:place>, the Warm Coral<\/I>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/SPAN>(both at 2 miles) and was third in Grade I Breeder’s Bowl Turf.<\/I>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Mitenpower<\/I><\/B> trains this son of Rubloff and let’s hope winless jockey Willie Bankston can hang on long enough to get his picture taken. <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Stolen Crown<\/SPAN><\/B> (5\/2) sounds like he is from one of Theavenger’s stables and is a chestnut, 4 YO son of Cat Thief. \u00a0<\/SPAN>Trained by Tothetop<\/I><\/B> he has managed two wins from 20 starts, the last being five back in an allowance race over a mile and a quarter.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He did try a mile and a half in the Glen<\/I> Overture<\/I> where he closed to be third but he will need his best on Saturday.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Arced<\/SPAN><\/B> (2\/1) will be in the outside post if you can call post four outside.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is a big tall chestnut colt, by Arch and is trained by former Nexis member Sallygee<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This colt loves an off track and although he is stretching out for the first time, he closed well four back to win at a mile and a sixteenth and was fourth last time out in the one mile Slew The Sky<\/I>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trainer Sallygee<\/I><\/B> seems to look for the off going for this specialized horse. \u00a0\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He’s ranked # 10 and only three dared to face him<\/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-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}