{"id":2451,"date":"2006-05-14T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2451"},"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=2451","title":{"rendered":"Queen of Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Rallying from last to first, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">CMS424\u2019s<\/I><\/B> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Queen of Mali <\/B>won the Grade III Great Fiddle Sticks Handicap on Saturday.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The daughter of Kingmambo showed great improvement in her first try at a graded stakes.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The win improved her ranking to 58<SUP>th<\/SUP> among three year old fillies at a classic distance.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">CMS424 had prepped her for this with a pair of nine furlong stakes, so she was more than ready for this eight and a half furlong challenge.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Finishing second was <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Noia\u2019s <\/I>Capoeira<\/B>, picking up her second finish in the money in graded company.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Both of the top two fillies were assigned speed figures that were nine points higher than they ran in their previous race. <\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">While the first and second place fillies were among the longest prices on the board, they were not big surprises as every filly in the field went off at less than 7-1 odds.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">What may qualify as a minor surprise is that the favorite, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Lifeshaft, <\/B>out of the <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Lenny14<\/I><\/B> barn, got the early lead she craved, but was not able to able to maintain it and faded to fourth.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Rounding out the top three was the second betting choice, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Super30\u2019s <\/I>I\u2019ve Met Barb<\/B>, an Empire Maker filly who showed a willingness to rally for the first time, before giving way to the top two.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen of Mali Rallies to Win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"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-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}