{"id":2300,"date":"2006-04-28T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2300"},"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=2300","title":{"rendered":"It’s Unthinkable – Mud In New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Unthinkable – Mud In <\/SPAN><\/B>New Hampshire<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:place><\/st1:State><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>

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New Hampshire<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> – It seems that everywhere I have been for the BTB recently – it’s been raining.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>First they called it winter, then spring, and now it’s late spring and it feels like winter.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The Grade II, Unthinkable Stakes<\/I><\/B> will be run on Saturday and even if it quits raining tomorrow, the track itself is under water and could not possibly be rated anything better than sloppy.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Sloppy track or not, the $200,000 race drew 13 entries of older fillies and mares including many off track specialists.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Here’s the field for the seven furlong main track event.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Post one will hold Grease Bare<\/B> (8\/1) a solid chestnut, 6 YO mare by Lammtarra.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Conditioned by Rohirrim<\/I><\/B>, she is an off track specialist and seven of her eight wins are over a less than perfect track.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won almost $500,000 but her best stakes finish showing was eight back when she finished third in an owner restricted stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She comes into this race off a closing third in a seven furlong allowance, and off track or not, this is a big class jump. <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Deja Blue<\/SPAN><\/B> (99\/1) is a well bred 4 YO filly by Forty Niner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is relatively lightly raced with only 11 starts and has only a maiden win to her credit.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Owned and trained by Cheyenne15<\/I><\/B> the big brown filly has one try over a sloppy track and she was distanced, although, word is that it was the mile and a quarter that did her in, not the racing surface.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has finished second in her last two races but this is another making a big class jump and would probably gain a lot of confidence by facing others in, of say, a NW2L or 1X instead of facing two of the top five ranked fillies in the world.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Breaking from post three will be Go O Go<\/B> (6\/1) a blood bay 6 YO mare by Octagonal.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is ranked # 5 in her division with 17 wins from 46 starts and over a million dollars in earnings.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has two wins from two starts on an off track and comes in off an easy win last time out in the Padre Shock<\/I> at 6 1\/2 furlongs.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ably trained by Theshark,<\/I><\/B> this mare seems to be at the top of her game and loves the distance and the going.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Yoyo36<\/SPAN><\/I><\/B> will send out Nun Colder<\/B> (25\/1) a lovely 4 YO bay filly by Behrens.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her last two races were dismal but three back she finished third in the Grade III, Shirley Smith at seven furlongs.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She likes the distance and has a second place finish on an off track but, I think her trainer could have found an easier spot.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Trainer Greyghost<\/I><\/B> will send out the big bay filly Forty Shots<\/B> (11\/1), the 9th<\/SUP> ranked sprinting filly who just happens to have four wins from four starts over an off track.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>By Red Bullet, the 4 YO filly has earned over $500,000 but may be struggling with the Equinics Curse.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She finished second in the Grade I, Cash Asmussen<\/I> stakes at The Equinics and from then on she hasn’t run all that well.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She comes in off a closing fifth last time out in the Mammoth Smash<\/I>.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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With the change of two little letters Compensation<\/B> (8\/1) could be called Condensation which would make her the odds on favorite over this sloppy track on Saturday instead of 8\/1.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A copper chestnut 4 YO daughter of Seeking The Gold, Compensation<\/B> has won nine of 21 starts and over a million dollars in purse money although most of that was won on the turf.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>What is interesting here is that she made four starts as a 2 YO on the main track before switching surfaces which did lead, among others, to a Grade I victory.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won four of her last eight and one of those was over the main track making her 4\/5 in the money on dirt.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Best of all, she has never lost a race on an off track and her trainer Lenny12<\/I><\/B> just keeps getting better.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Quetzalcoatal<\/SPAN><\/B> (23\/1) must be named after some mountain somewhere south of the <\/SPAN>US<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> border.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Regardless of whether or not you can say her name this 4 YO red daughter of Capote has won almost a third of her starts and is owned and trained by Gordonlyn<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A win two back in a seven\u00a0 <\/SPAN>furlong allowance with a 104 speed figure earned her a return to stakes company but this might be to a big a step for her.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She did move from last to fourth last time out in the Mammoth Smash<\/I> last time out where she did beat Forty Shots<\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has never run on an off track so she has a lot of questions to answer.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Glitterman will be represented by his 5 YO daughter Brilliancy<\/B> (7\/1), a lovely dark grey trained by Godchild<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>One of her nine wins was over an off track and she has only one off the board finish in her last eight starts and that includes a second and a third in the Critical Acclaim<\/I> and the Monte’s Fires<\/I>.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Along with about half the field she likes to come from the back third of the field and make one big run at the end.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Consistency is something everyone likes to see and this mare has it.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Sanchez<\/SPAN><\/I><\/B> will send out the # 11 ranked sprinter with his entry of Vanguard<\/B> (7\/2) a dark bay daughter by Forty Niner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is a winner of just under half of her 27 starts and is also a millionaire from purses won.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is a graded winner and is coming off a nice rest since finishing fourth in the Grade II, Distaff Breeder’s Bowl<\/I>,\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her only bad finishes in her last eight were both in Grade I events and she looks to be really tough at this level if, and that’s a big IF, she can handle the slop.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Post 10 will hold Puentelarra<\/B> (9\/2), another 5 YO mare but one that is the number three ranked sprinter in the world.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The blood bay daughter of Sadler’s Wells is owned and trained by Har<\/I><\/B> and she has won 10\/28 races and over a million dollars in her career.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her last two races she has finished one better than arch rival Vanguard<\/B> but was well beaten by Vanguard<\/B> in the seven furlong Blueberry<\/I>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Sounds like a rematch and the deciding factor will probably be the mud.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Dan Prostic<\/SPAN><\/B> (24\/1) is a 5YO chestnut mare by Crafty Prospector.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is conditioned by Sagreat<\/I><\/B> and is probably entered here because of the sloppy track.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won five of six starts on tracks that prompt most other trainers to look elsewhere.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her recent stakes record is pretty dismal, though, as she didn’t beat a horse last time out in the Grade III Short Female Sprint.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her only other stakes attempts she beat one horse in one and split the field in the other.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The off track should certainly move her up but will it be enough?<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Brahmide<\/SPAN><\/B> (16\/1) will break from post 12 and the light chestnut 5 YO mare by Brahms is owned and trained by Gdf.<\/I><\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won nine of 42 starts but only one of her last eight and that was an allowance race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She does have a win on an off track and comes in to this race off a second in the Shananie’s Dance<\/I> and a third in the Lost Pixie<\/I>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This is a big step up and she will need her best.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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On the outside is Meet The Legend<\/B> (8\/1) a 6 YO daughter of General Meeting.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trained by Twister<\/I><\/B> this bright bay mare has won 10\/42 races and is a millionaire twice over.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She finished second in her last three races at longer but has only won one in the past year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This mare reeks of past class and that is always dangerous.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won eight graded stakes including three grade ones, but her last win was in the ungraded Piku<\/I> Bonanza<\/I>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She may be making a comeback this year as she has not been worse than second in 2006 and is 2\/2 in the money on a muddy track.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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It looks like the sloppy going will have a lot to say about the results of this race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Good Luck to all. <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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