{"id":2136,"date":"2006-04-10T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2136"},"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=2136","title":{"rendered":"The SERPENTINE KEY Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"><EM>For all of you who backed my tips, bad luck I say. Remember a horse race is NEVER guaranteed no matter what I say.<\/EM><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><SPAN style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"><\/SPAN><\/B>\u00a0<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><SPAN style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\">Pedro\u2019s Speedster<\/SPAN><\/B><SPAN style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"> is exactly that. A speedster.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Dropping out to the tail of the field early on was happy enough to sit and wait for his chance.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Jockey T Brett started winding him up on the back straight and coming into the straight on the final turn was sitting in a well placed third.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Brocco\u2019s Wild Cat<\/B> having led the whole way from the jump was starting to tire but still had enough gas to keep going hard to the finish line.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In the end, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Pedro\u2019s<\/B> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Speedster<\/B> had timed it perfectly crossing the line just in front to take a classy win in what was really a 2 horse race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"><\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\">Coming in third and some 11 lengths behind was <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">D.C.<\/B> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Savage<\/B> who looked to have left his run too late to make up the distance on the 2 leaders.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Charisma Dancer<\/B>, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Miswaki Approval<\/B> and the big disappointment of the race in <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">ZZ Zzar<\/B> were the next group in across the line.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">ZZ Zzar<\/B> had no excuses really after sitting in good position up front for much of the race but just seemed to tire noticeably when it came down to it in the straight.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0Did I guarantee that one to win? No surely not&#8230;<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>The remaining horses in <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Stronghold<\/B>, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Delaware River<\/B>, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">PJ Free Runner<\/B>, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Wild Trips<\/B> and <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Carnaroe Reservoir<\/B> never really figured in the race with <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Fair Moose<\/B> a resounding last and at least 3 miles behind the main pack.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>So far back in fact that some thought he was leading the next race. As for whether he is a moose or a horse I vote the moose.\u00a0<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Horse Race at QLD with the Moose out the rear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}