Stalking a demanding pace, kj stables<\/U> King’s Robbery(IRE)<\/STRONG>, rated seven lengths off the leaders, running in third place,\u00a0then made his move at the head of the stretch to run down mizunomp14<\/U> stables pace setting Western Quest<\/STRONG>. Running under the emerald green colors of the Ireland Residency<\/EM> King’s Robbery, at 20\/1 odds,\u00a0took the lead about the 1\/8 <\/EM>pole and was ridden out\u00a0in hand by the veteran jockey B. Langhorne. It was Langhorne’s second ride on the King Of Kings(IRE)<\/EM> colt, both rides resulting in victories, both at the Vermont track. <\/P> “I was wondering if they’d call” stated the veteran rider. “It’s been a slow start to 06′ ” he said. “I haven’t gotten the same quality mounts that\u00a0I was getting in 05’…when I saw that King’s Robbery(IRE) <\/STRONG>had been selected to run for Ireland<\/EM>\u00a0and was going to run here at Vermont…you might say..I had my hopes. When the lead kj trainer called, they said that “I was their 1st and basically only selection. The horse had his best previous performance under my guidance”, “we won by 4 lengths that day”. “Those guys actually asked if I would consider taking the mount”.<\/P> “As the race started Western Quest<\/STRONG><\/EM>\u00a0raced to the lead followed by louisville stables<\/U>\u00a0Macho Niner,<\/STRONG> we broke clean and settled in behind them.<\/STRONG> Those two\u00a0hooked up, we were comfortable to sit back in third and watch for developments.\u00a0My horse felt strong and had a firm\u00a0hold of the track, the kj <\/U>folks had him ready to race. As we rounded the far turn we were running at the leaders, you could see that Macho Niner<\/STRONG> was played out and we were gaining on Western Quest<\/STRONG> by the second.\u00a0I took a peak behind me and saw peep6<\/U> Slither<\/STRONG> in full run. I urged KR to go and he resonded. We caught Western Quest<\/STRONG> half way up the stretch and pulled away”.<\/P> The race went in 2:30 even with King’s Robbery(IRE)<\/STRONG> winning by\u00a03 1\/2\u00a0lengths or so and he posted a 106 speed rating for the work. Slither<\/STRONG> came on like gang busters and took place position and Western Quest<\/STRONG> finished 3rd.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King’s Robbery Secures Gold For Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"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-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","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\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}