Depravity<\/B> used a strong rally in the stretch to pull off to a 2 length victory in the eighth running of the Grade 3 Gary Asher Memorial Stakes at Kentucky.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The win was the seventh in twelve career starts for Depravity.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It was also the third graded stakes win of his young career.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The son of Red Bullet covered the mile and one sixteenth in 142 and 3\/5ths and pushed his career earnings over $500,000.<\/P> \u00a0 The race set up nicely for the late running Depravity.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Fusaichi Flyer, One Bak, Bubba Jess, <\/B>and Wolfing<\/B> sped out of the gate together to battle for the lead over the first half mile.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Stephany00\u2019s Bubba Jess<\/B> won that battle and carried a lead to the sixteenth pole before being overtaken by Depravity.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Owner\/trainer funster<\/B> saw Depravity sit in last place for the first half mile, twelve lengths off the lead.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Then he began to make his move and got within six lengths of the lead at the top of the stretch.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Depravity ended up winning the race by two lengths and seemed like he would be capable of running for a lot longer than the mile and one sixteenth of the Gary Asher.<\/P> \u00a0 The track at Kentucky was listed as good, but was tough to handle for several of the horses.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The jockey of bargain bred hero Bubba Jess, <\/B>P McCarthy, said at the top of the stretch he thought he had plenty of horse to coast to a victory.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>However, Bubba Jess tired in the stretch and his jockey felt that the track condition was a factor.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Said Res Ipsa Loquitor\u2019s <\/B>owner\/trainer Silverny83<\/B>, \u201cMy horse definitely did not like the surface today.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I will throw this race out and run \u2018Res\u2019 on a fast track next time out.\u201d<\/P> \u00a0 Despite the questions about the condition of the track, the race and day certainly belonged to Depravity.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Funster<\/B> was non committal about the plans for Depravity after the race, instead saying he wanted to see how he came out of the race before deciding on the next race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Whatever the decision, Depravity has set himself up to make a run in this year\u2019s Triple Crown races.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monster Stretch Move Assures Victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"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-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}