This past weekend four horses went to the post in The Miner John Special Stakes<\/STRONG> run at 14 furlongs\u00a0over a firm turf course.\u00a0The day’s feature carried a purse of\u00a0$65,000 and the\u00a0post time favorite was Seat Back Forward<\/STRONG>.at even money.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> When the gates snapped opened for the feature race, the favorite\u00a0Seat Back Forward<\/STRONG>\u00a0quickly went for the lead with Glasgow Kris (IRE<\/STRONG>) trying to keep pace.\u00a0 Within a few hundred yards it was easy to see that Glasgow Kris (IRE)<\/STRONG> was not going to be able to keep up with Seat<\/STRONG> Back Forward<\/STRONG> and that one started to draw off while under tight wraps form jockey S.Noles<\/EM>.\u00a0 As they came in front of the stands the first time Seat Back Forward<\/STRONG> had built an easy lead of six lenght’s and was building on that.\u00a0 The rest of the pack was stretched out three out across the treack with A Notch Above<\/STRONG> movining into second position widest of all.\u00a0 Glasgow Kris<\/STRONG> (IRE)<\/STRONG> was be shuffled back to third at this point and the late running Hungry Trick<\/STRONG> had yet to make his move and trailed by many.\u00a0 As they continued down the backside Seat Back<\/STRONG> Forward<\/STRONG> continued to move comfortably and increased his lead to almost 10 lenghts.\u00a0 A Notch<\/STRONG> Above<\/STRONG> was starting to fade, Glasgow Kris (IRE)<\/STRONG> didn’t look like he had much left for the stretch run and Hungry Trick<\/STRONG> was under way.\u00a0 As they straightened into the stretch Seat Back<\/STRONG> Forward<\/STRONG> was still in control with that 10 length lead now cut almost in half, Hungry Trick<\/STRONG> was doing some running but it was not going to be enough today as Seat Back Forward<\/STRONG> won by almost 4 length’s in a well judged ride by S.Noles<\/EM>.\u00a0 Hungry Trick<\/STRONG> was much the best of the rest outfinishing the rest of the field bt some 14 lenght’s.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> Congradulations to Studkenny2<\/EM>\u00a0 who wins back to back stakes with Seat Back Forward<\/STRONG> and three in the last four.\u00a0 The $39,000 he banked this week increases his lifetime earnings to $1,144,032\u00a0 It was his 14th trip to the winners circle in 48 strarts and is now ranked 43 in the long division.\u00a0 Just a footnote\u00a0 this reporter had the tri\u00a0 4\/1\/3\u00a0 not a huge deal in a 4 horse field, but beats ripping them up.\u00a0 Good luck we will see you next week…….<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seat Back Forward Makes Every Step a Winning One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"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-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}