{"id":259,"date":"2005-08-14T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=259"},"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=259","title":{"rendered":"Vindiana Jones Blitzes Rivals in Shiny Gem (G2) Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">In one of the strangest stakes this writer has seen in a while, <B>Vindiana Jones<\/B> blitzed 13 rivals in the G2 Shiny Gem Stakes, taking the lead right out of the gate, getting away by as far as 4 \u00bc lengths, then tiring through the stretch to surrender that lead, while finally finding what looked to be a second wind ten strides before the wire to just outlast the game filly <B>They Call Me Magic<\/B>. <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">The 6.50-1 favorite in the full field of 14, Vindiana Jones had his share of doubters coming into this race (including yours truly!).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The race was stacked with speed, and he had coughed up early leads in several recent starts, but trainer <I>peeps6<\/I> and jockey R. Foster were vindicated (pardon the pun) with their colt\u2019s front running performance here.<\/FONT><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">Stepping out of her own division for the first time, They Call Me Magic acquitted herself very well, only falling \u00bc lengths short, while 3<SUP>rd<\/SUP> place finisher <B>Double The Bet<\/B> strung together two good efforts for the first time in recent history, exactly replicating the 103 speed figure he recorded in his allowance prep race for this week\u2019s contest.<\/FONT><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/FONT><\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">Moving forward, Vindiana Jones still has questions to answer: giving up a 4 lengths lead in the final two furlongs is a very disturbing trend, and he\u2019ll need to replicate this effort again over 10 furlongs to demonstrate that he belongs in the upper echelon of the three year old division. <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>Otherwise, trainer <I>peeps6<\/I> may opt to test out the grass: as a natural miler, Gone West and <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Danzig<\/st1:place> on the female side of his pedigree support the hypothesis that he may relish the green.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>May there be a spot for him in the Breeders\u2019 Bowl Mile?<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Time will tell! <\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressive Wire-to-Wire victory in Speed Filled Race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"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-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}