{"id":1748,"date":"2006-02-18T23:42:16","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1748"},"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=1748","title":{"rendered":"Catch This Rising Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Marinia<\/I> stable was hoping for a big weekend when it emptied the barn \u2013 entering all nine horses into races this weekend.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With two failing to draw in, five out of the money, and one third, you might think the results were disappointing, but not when the ninth one, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Alastor<\/B>, gave the stable its 101<SUP>st<\/SUP> win by taking the Grade III Risen Star Stakes.<\/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\">The win marked the third stakes win in a row for the brown son of Squirtle Squirt and the sire\u2019s first graded stakes winner in the sim. <\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">With a relatively modest speed figure of 96, and a diluted field due to last weekend\u2019s Equinics, Alastor still has questions to answer, and he will need another impressive performance to qualify for a certain race in early May, but so far he looks like a colt deserving watching.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Monday\u2019s <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Las Vegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> future book may be a bettor\u2019s last chance at value.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">As expected, the early pace of the Risen Star was dominated by the speedy <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Editorialize<\/B>, but jockey Bo Ryan could not get the colt to take advantage of the easy lead, and the <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Correction <\/I>trainee faded to seventh.<\/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\">Surfer\u2019s<\/I> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Giant Run <\/B>is another one to watch as he showed he can handle routes and took a stalking trip to a second place finish as the favorite.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The hard-charging <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Death Alley Driver<\/B> edged out the stalking <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Cash is King <\/B>for the show position to complete a $743.30 trifecta.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alastor Makes Marinia&#8217;s Weekend Worthwhile<\/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-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","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=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}