{"id":2465,"date":"2006-05-15T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T16:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2465"},"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=2465","title":{"rendered":"Gold and Silver in Manhattan District"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pher<\/EM><\/STRONG>‘s Canadian Gold<\/STRONG> went off as the longest shot in the GII Manhattan District Stakes<\/EM>, dismissed in the company of fillies who had posted flashier numbers.\u00a0 An all or nothing sort, she’d won better than half of her prior races and finished off the board in the rest.\u00a0 But she was riding high off a confidence-boosting score in the ungraded Over Around Light Special<\/EM> and stepped up bigtime in her graded debut.

Arabian Sun(GB)<\/STRONG> broke like she’d been shot from a cannon, zipping out to a three-quarter-length lead at the first call.\u00a0 Ampuria<\/STRONG> was hot on her heels, with co-favorite Cinematic<\/STRONG> right behind.\u00a0 The rest of the field stuck close but for Canadian Gold, who relaxed alongside Silver Strav<\/STRONG> in the back of the pack, with her young jockey staying cool.

At the top of the stretch, things were getting interesting up front.\u00a0 The grey Ampuria fought her way to a short lead over Arabian Sun, but Canadian Gold and Silver Strav were coming on.\u00a0 Silver Strav bogged down as she passed the leaders, but J. Barba shook up Canadian Gold and she dug in, pulling out to win by a length and a half.\u00a0 Silver Strav had half length on Ampuria, who stayed on well.

Just As Well<\/STRONG> ran evenly in fourth and Cinematic tired a bit but held on by a quarter-length over See The Ball Drop<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 Arabian Sun couldn’t match strides late and Stagecoach Dream<\/STRONG> was a quarter-length back of her.

Canadian Gold is a three-year-old daughter of Touch Gold and winning Gone West mare Buda in the Bar<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 The Manhattan District was her sixth win in ten career starts and pushed her career earnings to just under $300,000 and her class rank seventeenth in the sprint division.\u00a0 Her 99 speed rating was a career high by 12 points and she paid $18.70 on a $2 ticket to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First graded start, first graded win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}