{"id":1693,"date":"2006-02-11T22:41:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1693"},"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=1693","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Ganglord Takes Opening Equinics Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Vaulting all the way in the rankings to number two among three year old turf sprinters, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Ganglord <\/B>took a rail-hugging path on Saturday to capture the Grade I Eric Guerin Stakes, the Italian opening race in the Equinics.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Never far back, the <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Simsters6<\/I> trained daughter of Devil\u2019s Bag improved her record to three wins in three starts, all stakes races, though the previous two were not nearly as important as this race with its graded ranking and million dollar purse.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\u201cI had a lot of horse under me today,\u201d said jockey T Small, \u201cIt didn\u2019t matter to her if the grass was hard or soft, or if the race was six furlongs or a mile and a half, she was going to win.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The soft turf and a pace battle may have softened up the two fillies running one-two for much of the race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Crossland Drive<\/B> had owned the top speed figure coming into the race and had earned it on a wet grass surface, but when she got into it with top rated <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Super Gold<\/B> and could not shake her, the pair faded to fourth and fifth.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Oostende3\u2019s<\/I> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Brundle Hollandia<\/B> took an outside rally to finish second.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She may have been running fastest of all at the end.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">HeyThere\u2019s<\/I> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Impossible Project<\/B> also got by the early runners to complete a trifecta that paid $6,162.60.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Favored <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Prabha <\/B>was unable to overcome her outside post in this 19 horse field and after hustling to early contention faded to eighth.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughs Up Field of Nineteen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"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-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}