{"id":180,"date":"2005-08-11T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=180"},"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=180","title":{"rendered":"Fillies and Mares Go For “Guile” In Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> plays host to some of the se\u00f1oras of the Sim universe this weekend, as beneath the infield palms will be the $35,000 Guile Stakes, for three-year-olds and up at a mile-and-three-sixteenths.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>What the field of fillies and mares lacks in major marquee names, it makes up for in a highly competitive field of six.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Sage In Cedar<\/SPAN><\/B> leads the way as the morning-line chalk at 8-5, and this daughter of Anziyan (from a Louis Quatorze mare) is ranked 90th<\/SUP> in the distaff classic division.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She returns to stakes company following a disappointing fourth in a <\/SPAN>Missouri<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> open allowance last out.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s won twice this year, in the Pharsea Seattle Memorial down <\/SPAN>Argentina<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> way and, two starts ago, in the His Events Handicap in <\/SPAN>Washington<\/SPAN><\/st1:City>, <\/SPAN>D.C.<\/SPAN><\/st1:State><\/st1:place>, and when she has a target or two or ten to chase down, this graded-placed four-year-old can be lethal.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trained by lostorf<\/I>, Sage In Cedar figures to be tough to beat, provided that what transpires in front of her is competitive and heated enough.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>While her allowance defeat might raise some alarm bells, she has won at this distance before, and likes to go long; a very serious threat.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Exclusive Bottle<\/SPAN><\/B> has a good old-school-meets-new-school pedigree, by With Approval out of an Exclusive Native mare, and she\u2019s one of the grande dames of Sim racing.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A nine-year-old mare, she\u2019s been running since November 2000, she\u2019s ranked 48th<\/SUP> in the distaff classic division, and she recently became a Sim millionaire.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>One could argue that she may have lost a step with age, but no one evidently told her this: she\u2019s a two-time stakes winner this year, and a graded winner from last year (the Grade <\/SPAN>III<\/SPAN><\/st1:stockticker> Sand Castle Distaff, the Grade I First State Distaff), and she\u2019s still capable of running speed figures well into the triple digits.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>As long as she\u2019s not going to the breeding shed for a date with Storm Cat, she\u2019s going to be a live threat.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trainer gladiator<\/I> is to be commended for keeping this great racehorse in fine condition for so long.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>All that said, does her recent tendency towards going to the lead help or hurt her against a closer such as the favorite?\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Respect her, at any price. <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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I could write a hundred puns about Loretta Lynn<\/B> and sending her opponents to \u201cFist City\u201d or cooking them up with Crisco, but she\u2019s regally bred (Forty Niner-Second Hubby, by Danzig) and very talented for the lucky7<\/I> stables.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s tailed off a little this year, her last win coming in allowance company in April, but she does still possess a nice late run.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Stakes company has been a little tougher to negotiate this year, but she likes these longer distances, and could still be in it for a piece at the end.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Cookie Barn<\/SPAN><\/B> has turned it on since leaving the grass behind after this year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trained by balieybarn<\/I>, this three-year-old daughter of Kingmambo out of a Saint Ballado mare started the year doing just alright on the lawn, but when she switched to dirt routes, she\u2019s exploded, winning four times and finishing second three times; she\u2019s won four of her last five stakes races, and she\u2019s been incredibly versatile each time, either coming from off the pace or going wire-to-wire.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her numbers are just a half-notch below the career-bests of the favorites, but she has youth on her side, and she seems to get better as she goes longer.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s a valid threat, and dangerous no matter where she\u2019s placed during a race.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Year Of The Funk<\/SPAN><\/B> is a stakes winner on grass, but her abilities on dirt are subjective.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s a five-year-old mare, by Event Of The Year-Bluff Try, by Pine Bluff, with more dirt wins than turf ones, and some of her winning figures are quite remarkable (a 118, at one point).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>But more recently, her races have been better running miles on the grass, having won the Lemon Lime Special in April.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>One could argue that seeyalater<\/I>\u2019s trainee is an incredibly versatile horse, or it could be argued that as she gets older, she\u2019s more suited towards grass racing because it\u2019s easier on her physically.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She should be closer to the pace, and the chances of her improving two off the lawn are good; an exotics play.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Cajun Hospitality<\/SPAN><\/B> is a three-year-old daughter of Changeintheweather for the stables of myden<\/I>, and her credentials are pretty smooth, being a two-time stakes winner over sprint distances.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The drawbacks are that she hasn\u2019t won since March, her recent efforts haven\u2019t been as sharp, and her tries over a mile have been rather disappointing.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s an efficient filly coming from just off the pace, but she hasn\u2019t quite been able to put it together against older fillies and mares going long so far.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s very capable, and it could just be a matter of time, but this is a tough spot for everything to gel given the talent amongst these fine distaffers.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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My selections:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

  1. Exclusive Bottle<\/o:p><\/B><\/LI>
  2. Sage In Cedar<\/o:p><\/B><\/LI>
  3. Cookie Barn<\/o:p><\/B><\/LI><\/OL>

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    Happy wagering, and good luck to all!<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ‘Sage’, ‘Bottle’ head distaff clash south of the border<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}