{"id":2654,"date":"2006-06-11T04:26:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2654"},"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=2654","title":{"rendered":"Lex Luthor destroys Derby field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><FONT size=3><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">Yesterday we witnessed a performance that was reminiscent of Slip Anchor\u2019s real-life Derby success 20 years ago. As is his want, Lex Luthor burst out the stalls like a horse possessed, straining at the bit to get to the front, nothing was going to prevent him being where he wanted to be. As the field sorted themselves out, the colors of owner Galileo were prominent in 1<SUP>st<\/SUP> and 2<SUP>nd<\/SUP> places with Giantsbane, as expected, sitting in behind his stablemate. Jockey Edwards then slowed it up in front as the field climbed to the highest part of the course.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><FONT size=3><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><FONT size=3><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">As they started to freewheel down Tattenham Corner, Edwards picked up the pace on the imposing son of Empire Maker who looked like a horse on a mission. He started to put distance between himself and his pursuers. Giantsbane fell away and it was another son of Empire Maker, Strong Belwas, who took up the challenge to run down his paternal half-brother.<o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><FONT size=3><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><FONT size=3><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">Into the straight, and Strong Belwas was making no impression, instead it was left to \u2018Mr Guts\u2019 himself to attempt to catch the runaway leader, Good To Be King was running on through beaten horses but the leader had flown. Lex was much too good on the day and jockey Edwards allowed himself a long look over his shoulder as the horse passed the winning post 6.5 lengths clear of Good To Be King with Strong Belwas keeping on for 3<SUP>rd<\/SUP>. Disappointing favorite Cortez was almost 10 lengths back in 4<SUP>th<\/SUP>, and jockey Harzheim reported afterwards that the colt was a spent force at halfway.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><FONT size=3><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><FONT size=3><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">This win has really set up the division as both Lex Luthor and Cortez now have a victory each over the other. It will be fascinating to see the pair of them duel for supremacy throughout the rest of the season and we could have a repeat of last year when 2 colts went head-to-head for most of the year.<o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><FONT size=3><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Bring it on!<\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empire Maker colt unstoppable in 6 length success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"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-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","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\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}