{"id":2247,"date":"2006-04-23T03:52:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T03:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2247"},"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=2247","title":{"rendered":"Black Pearls proves a little gem in the Nell Gwyn GIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nell Gwyn certainly lived up to it\u2019s reputation as a good classic trial again this year with the top four all running speeds in the nineties. For three year old fillies on turf at this time of year, those sorts of times are well up to classic standards in this hack\u2019s opinion, and it will be interesting to see where their trainers aim them now.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>

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The winner was Black Pearls<\/STRONG> under J Lawler who gave her a dream ride from stall 2. When Grassy Smeltzer<\/STRONG> on the rails was held up towards the rear of the field Lawler managed to easily settle his filly in the box seat of the chasing pack behind Folk Tales<\/STRONG> and Jump My Guest<\/STRONG> who as expected contested the early running. Lollipop Gui<\/STRONG>ld and Blackpool Lights<\/STRONG> kept Lawler company with the rest of the field seeming to be happy enough to take a lead from these five.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>

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The favourite, Port Kitten<\/STRONG>, was held up about six lengths off the lead and looked to be travelling sweetly enough through the early part of the race, as did most of the runners, with Folk Tales<\/STRONG> happy to dictate a fairly even pace for the first 4 furlongs. It was as they approached Tattenham corner that the complexion of the race changed with D Bowie asking the leader to quicken, and quickly putting 5 lengths between herself and the chasing pack with Jump my Guest<\/STRONG> suddenly treading water. Now they were getting to work behind, and as they entered the straight it looked for a split second that the move had worked. <\/SPAN>Bowie<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> sneaked a look behind to see most of the other jocks rowing away like demented oarsmen and must have been happy until he spied Lawler sitting still on Black pearls<\/STRONG>. <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>

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He got into the drive position and gave his filly a crack and it was all over in a matter of strides, the daughter of Seeking the Gold quickening away from the rest of the chasers and past Folk Tales<\/STRONG>. The final winning margin was an easy looking 2 lengths from the fast finishing Street Away<\/STRONG> who just pipped the game Folk Tales<\/STRONG> for second. <\/SPAN>Blackpool<\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/st1:place> lights<\/STRONG> ran a nice race for fourth without ever really threatening the winner and there was a long looking 3 length gap between her and the fifth place Grassy Smeltzer<\/STRONG> who was noted running on from the rear in eye catching fashion.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>

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The winner paid $9.90 on the tote and will probably be a much shorter price than that wherever she runs next. Darkfall has a very nice filly here and a combination of a good 97 speed rating and the fact that she has already won over nine furlongs could mean that both the 1000 <\/SPAN>Guineas<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and the Oaks are possibilities.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where next for darkfall’s classy filly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"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-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","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\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}