{"id":1736,"date":"2006-02-17T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1736"},"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=1736","title":{"rendered":"Four Hope to Star in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Welcome to snowbound <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:State><st1:place>Wisconsin<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> on this frigid Saturday afternoon.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It took us a while to dig out and defrost the tracks, but hopefully it\u2019s worth it to all who\u2019ve ventured forth.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\"><\/SPAN>Our feature race on the card today is the <I>Cleveland Star Special<\/I>, a mile and three sixteenths stakes race for 3 year olds run on a Yielding Turf course.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The odds for this race are pretty close, but we have only four entrants today so let\u2019s see who decided to brave the cold\u2026 <\/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\">First off, in PP1, we have <B>#23475 Dreams Are Free<\/B>, a chestnut colt trained by <I>nsw<\/I>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is a son of Red Ransom based on Maitlander(IRE) (Theatrical(IRE) x Rainbow Quest) and is 6\/1-2-1 lifetime.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This colt has spent his entire career so far on the green stuff, finishing out of the bps only once.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has definitely shown an affinity for routing, but he has never gone this distance before, but he seems to be improving with distance.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has never won a stakes, or even an allowance, but he has a real shot if distance isn\u2019t a problem.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is the favorite today at 6\/5 and is being ridden by jock F. Esiason.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Next up, starting in PP2, is #<B>27360 Notformeanymore(IRE)<\/B>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This <I>resting<\/I> trained light grey colt is a son of Manndar(IRE) out of a Zen bred mare.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is 6\/2-1-1 lifetime.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This guy is making a big jump in class, having run in a 20k claimer last time out.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He also seems to be having distance problems, having mainly sprinted and only routed once, where he finished 5<SUP>th<\/SUP>, more than 8 lengths back.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is most likely going to have a little trouble handling the other 3 boys in this field.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is the longshot here today at odds of 9\/2 and is being ridden by L. Olsen.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Then, breaking from PP3, we have <B>#111580 Bonetails<\/B>, a <I>ksparrow1<\/I> trained brown colt by Storm Cat out of Tailabone (Trick Question x Lycius) and is 3\/0-2-0 lifetime.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Personally, I have never seen a maiden in a stakes race, but there\u2019s a first time for everthing.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has been running well, but has not yet crossed the wire in front.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>However, he has been improving as his distances increased, but he is going to have to put up a big effort to get to the wire in front today.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is off at odds of 7\/2 and has jock M. Snider in the saddle.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">And, finally, from PP4, is <B>#76080 Wonderboy Ebay (IRE)<\/B>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is a <I>pigeon10<\/I> trained brown colt by <st1:place>Giant\u2019s Causeway<\/st1:place> (IRE) out of Plated (Silver Deputy x Rahy) and is 9\/2-0-3 lifetime.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This guy has the most experience in terms of races run, but did not really start to kick it into high gear until the middle of last year, when he changed hands in the auction.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>After that, he has never been out of the bps, but in his only stakes run he finished 5<SUP>th<\/SUP>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has been a decent allowance runner, but will need to step up his game a little if he wants to steal this race from the favorite.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He is off at 7\/5 and has jockey J. Fontenot in the irons.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><SPAN style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It looks to be a good race here today, but I am probably going to go with the 1, the 3 and the 4 as my choices of the day, but only Wonderboy Ebay has run on an off course, so anything is possible.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Keep Warm, Good Luck and Good Racing!!<\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Favorite Steal the Cleveland Star?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"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-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}