{"id":2788,"date":"2006-08-20T10:31:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T10:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2788"},"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=2788","title":{"rendered":"Magic in the Big Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Skills in Magic<\/B> vaulted into the number two rating as a three year old classic turfer by overcoming a strong field an and early speed bias to win the Grade I Big Red Stakes for three year old going a mile and a quarter on a firm Illinois turf course.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Peeps9 <\/I><\/B><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>trained colt missed the stakes record by two fifths of a second while becoming only the second colt to win the stakes by coming from off the pace.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He paid $18.50, $9.60, and $7.60.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The early pace was contested by the BTB handicapper\u2019s pick <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Quitter\u2019s<\/I><\/B> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Town Prince <\/B>and <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Simsters8\u2019s<\/I><\/B> <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Rosenthal<\/B>, but after a mile they were both overtaken by the winner and by <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Lenny28\u2019s<\/I><\/B> number one rated <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Creepshow<\/B>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With the place finish, Creepshow maintained his division leading ranking.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The favorite in the race, the filly <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Dance Seeker<\/B>, out of the <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Rockriver<\/I><\/B> barn, seemed overmatched by her male opponents and finished a distant ninth.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In other changes in the rankings, the number 6 ranked <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Very Silver<\/B> fell to 7<SUP>th<\/SUP>, while Town Prince moved up from 10<SUP>th<\/SUP> to 9<SUP>th<\/SUP>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skills in Magic Rallies to Take Grade I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"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-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","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\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}