{"id":2481,"date":"2006-05-18T19:27:15","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2481"},"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=2481","title":{"rendered":"W.Va. field comes up short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT size=2><P><STRONG>By ITCH<\/STRONG><\/P><P>Not much of a race here at Old Waterford this week for the feature, with only four baby fillies entered to run in the $35,000 Second Storm Stakes, going 6.5 furlongs over a good dirt course.<\/P><P>Charlie the Drunken Morning Line Oddsmaker has installed <STRONG>WASSIE&#8217;S HOSSIE G<\/STRONG> as the 3\/5 favorite despite her never having started. She is the first offspring for the Grade F mare Wassie Warpath G, who hit the board three times running long on the grass in stakes company. By Storm Boot out a Deputy Minister mare, this one has plenty of off-track blood in the engine, but odds-on seems a little out of line, especially considering two other fillies in here already have raced well.<\/P><P>If your humble W.Va. reporter were making the line, we probably would have installed Look4win&#8217;s <STRONG>OUTRUN DE CAP<\/STRONG>, co-second choice at 3-1, as the favorite. By the Gone West sire Ouragan out of the Grade G Dehere mare Almost Love, this one has run well in both her career starts, breaking her maiden at 6 furlongs, and then running a decent second in a short four-horse field of colts. S. Tate is in the irons, and that hurts nothing. Look4win is having a solid year with a five-horse outfit, winning at 22 percent.<\/P><P>The second half of the Wassie entry is the other co-second choice. <STRONG>D LION SLEEPS G<\/STRONG> is probably the filly to catch, having been on the lead in both of her races going shorter at 4.5 furlongs. As all longtime handicappers know, speed has a big edge in a short field like this. We&#8217;ll just have to find out if she has the scope to get the 6.5 furlongs. Wassie has had mixed results with the dam, the Grade D Woodman mare Out the Manta, who has five offspring in the Sim. The only one that has been really successful so far is Ride out the Storm, who has won $153,000, a pretty decent bankroll in 29 starts.<\/P><P>Finally, we have another first-time starter, Jasong&#8217;s <STRONG>FANTASTICOX<\/STRONG>. By the Storm Cat sire Fantasticat, she won&#8217;t have to do much running in her career to outperform mama. Old Pleasures was a proven loser, winning only two times in 49 career starts. Jasong hasn&#8217;t had too many bad ones, though. He&#8217;s closing in on the 100-win milestone, with 98 career wins from 615 starts for a very solid career strike rate of 16 percent. <\/P><P><STRONG>GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY!!!!<\/STRONG><\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only four fillies in 2860 feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","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\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}