{"id":1744,"date":"2006-02-18T01:37:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T01:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1744"},"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=1744","title":{"rendered":"Open Your Mind, Brabarossa(AUS) in win streak duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><STRONG>British Columbia<\/STRONG>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Odds-on favorite Open Your Mind matches her 3-stakes race win streak to Brabarossa&#8217;s 2-stakes in the <EM>$70,000 Queen Rain Special<\/EM>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Over 8.5 furlongs on the turf, a short field of four sophomore fillies head to the post.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>At 1\/5, driver1000&#8217;s <STRONG>Open Your Mind<\/STRONG> appears a veritable shoe-in\u00a0for the prize.\u00a0\u00a0 The Tale Of The Cat daughter out of a Sadler&#8217;s Wells mare\u00a0has had a textbook career, winning 7 of\u00a010 starts.\u00a0\u00a0 Gotta give her trainer a lot of credit &#8212; any other player would&#8217;ve rushed this gal to the graded ranks by now.\u00a0 Instead, driver1000 considers this filly&#8217;s soft winning SP#s as well as the quality of the short fields that she beats up on.\u00a0\u00a0 Taking it slow, Open Your Mind comes into this event unbeaten (3-for-3) on the grass.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0She won a photo over a classy California mile (<STRONG>92 SP#<\/STRONG>) and trashed a 9.5f turf\u00a0overniter wire to wire LTO.\u00a0 Versatile on lead or from her much preferred midpack rally, Open Your Mind should bring home yet another score for herself and top jock A Rolling (23%).<\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>But brabant&#8217;s <STRONG>Brabarossa(AUS)<\/STRONG> (2\/1)\u00a0presents a win streak of her own.\u00a0 The Testa Rossa(AUS) starlet found new life over the lawn\u00a0last October and hasn&#8217;t looked back.\u00a0\u00a0 The filly placed in her first 2 turf starts, then reeled off two straight over 7.5 furlongs.\u00a0 She makes her two-turns debut and there&#8217;s no reason to suspect that he stalker won&#8217;t enjoy the extra\u00a0furlong.\u00a0 Will need to eclipse her top 85 SP# though and\u00a0there&#8217;s no shame to finish 2nd Saturday to the more experienced router Open Your Mind.\u00a0 Jockey C Bortz(16%) aims for the winners circle though!<\/FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2>\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Trainer boldrule99 brings the Horse Chestnut(SAF) filly <STRONG>Anatolia(SAF)<\/STRONG> (5\/1)\u00a0for some money.\u00a0\u00a0 The filly displays some\u00a0competitiveness over the green stuff, winning her career debut over the surface last\u00a0May.\u00a0 She only made 5 more starts\u00a0as a freshmen, placing a couple of times at stakes level.\u00a0 Well spotted for another black type performance, but I don&#8217;t think she has the goods to outrun the two faves here.\u00a0\u00a0<\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>The *Computer enters <STRONG>Azroc Cha Char<\/STRONG> (29\/1) to fill the field.\u00a0\u00a0 No threat from this Thunderello bargain baby and former claimer.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><\/FONT>\u00a0<\/DIV><DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I like Open Your Mind to dispatch this group, but Brabarossa has a legit shot of turning the tables.\u00a0 The favorite though should win this one.\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3YO Filly Classic Turf Division: British Columbia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"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-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}